About the initial social responsibility audit content of BSCI certification

The initial social responsibility audit of BSCI certification includes the following:

The BSCI certification social responsibility audit report is completed based on the audit. It includes the audit results and suggestions for corrective actions.
This plays a very important role for suppliers in the following aspects:
●Analyze the company's current social responsibility performance;
●Show the company's current position in fulfilling BSCI requirements;
●Show what measures need to be taken in what areas to improve social responsibility performance.
●Analyze the company's current position and timeline for the actions it needs to take to obtain any BSCI trading partner qualification.
●Social audit reports also provide suppliers with a way to demonstrate their corporate social responsibility performance to relevant retail companies or other potential customers.

The initial audit is a very important part of the BSCI certification's supplier supervision system. However, it must be emphasized that each audit is only an impression of the situation at the time. The audit only confirms the extent to which the supplier has met the minimum social standards and other requirements. This is just the beginning of the BSCI program. BSCI certification believes that it is more important to develop corrective measures before and after the audit to continuously improve and perfect the overall social responsibility performance.

1.1. BSCI certification initial audit
The initial audit of BSCI certification is conducted in a unified manner. Standardized questionnaires and evaluation forms are used in each audit. This ensures fairness to all suppliers and ensures that the audit quality is at a consistent high level.

Each audit consists of the following parts:
Part A: Recording key data: Business and key data of the supplier company
Part B: BSCI audits, records and evaluates compliance with the most basic social responsibility and environmental protection requirements. The audit of Part B and the corrective action plan made based on Part B are mandatory.
Part C: Record and evaluate the best practices of the industry. The audit of Part C is mandatory, but the implementation of the corrective action plan made according to Part C is voluntary. This is not required for establishing and maintaining business relationships with retailers participating in BSCI. However, it is recommended for companies that may reach SA8000 or other equivalent certification standards.

1.2. Auditing companies Only auditing companies and their auditors that have passed SAAS certification can perform BSCI certification audits (please refer to the list of auditing companies that have passed SAAS certification).

1.3.Audit Order This depends on the supplier's BSCI member business partner, and the supplier or BSCI member trading partner places an audit order with the audit company certified by SAAS. When placing an audit order, suppliers are required to clearly indicate that they require an audit based on the BSCI certification code.