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SMETA Audit Checklist for Manufacturing Teams
Use this smeta audit checklist to inspect audit scope, site and SMETA version, management systems and entitlement to work, freely chosen employment, child labour and young workers, wages, benefits and working hours, and discrimination, treatment, freedom of association and regular employment, capturing photo evidence per finding and tracking each fix through to closure.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How is a scheduled smeta audit different from a general inspection?
It is scoped to the scheduled cadence and controls that ethical trade auditors, social compliance and csr teams run, not a one-off handover walk. It prompts audit scope, site and SMETA version, management systems and entitlement to work, freely chosen employment, child labour and young workers, wages, benefits and working hours, and discrimination, treatment, freedom of association and regular employment, watching for unresolved smeta defects and repeat findings, records pass, fail, or N/A with photo evidence on each smeta check on critical items, and raises corrective actions with owners before sign-off. Run in InspectWrk, the record is timestamped and rolls into trend reports so repeat failures surface before the next audit.
What do ethical trade auditors, social compliance and csr teams check on it?
They work through each checkpoint to assess the site against the SMETA labour standards, health and safety, environment and business ethics pillars, confirm the required controls are in place, and capture photo evidence on each smeta check on anything that fails or needs proof. Priority failure modes include unresolved smeta defects and repeat findings. Each checkpoint takes pass, fail, or N/A, and a failed item stays open until the fix is verified.
What evidence does it require?
It expects photo evidence on each smeta check on failed or critical items, so findings rest on proof rather than memory. Records support the ETI Base Code and applicable local law and the SMETA measurement criteria (Sedex methodology), and every photo, note, and sign-off stays attached to the inspection instead of living in chat threads.
What does the smeta audit checklist cover?
The smeta audit checklist covers audit scope, site and SMETA version, management systems and entitlement to work, freely chosen employment, child labour and young workers, wages, benefits and working hours, and discrimination, treatment, freedom of association and regular employment. On each checkpoint, ethical trade auditors record pass, fail, or N/A, add a photo on anything that needs proof, and raise a corrective action with an owner and due date. Run in InspectWrk, the inspection is timestamped, traceable to whoever completed it, and exports as a single manufacturing report aligned to the ETI Base Code and applicable local law and the SMETA measurement criteria (Sedex methodology).
What is a smeta audit checklist?
Quick Answer
A smeta audit checklist is the scored audit used to assess the site against the SMETA labour standards, health and safety, environment and business ethics pillars that manufacturing teams use to check the key inspection points, assign owners to any failures, and close them with photo proof. Completed in InspectWrk, it is timestamped, works offline, and exports as an audit-ready manufacturing report for the ETI Base Code and applicable local law and the SMETA measurement criteria (Sedex methodology).
A smeta audit checklist is the scored audit used to assess the site against the SMETA labour standards, health and safety, environment and business ethics pillars that manufacturing teams use to check audit scope, site and SMETA version, management systems and entitlement to work, freely chosen employment, child labour and young workers, wages, benefits and working hours, and discrimination, treatment, freedom of association and regular employment, capture photo evidence, and track corrective actions to closure. Its job is to assess the site against the SMETA labour standards, health and safety, environment and business ethics pillars.
Why do smeta audits reconstruct evidence the night before?
Ethical trade auditors and Social compliance and CSR teams still miss unresolved smeta defects and repeat findings when rounds are ticked without photo evidence on each smeta check.
Without a single inspection record, teams reconstruct the evidence from phones instead of proving the ETI Base Code and applicable local law and the SMETA measurement criteria (Sedex methodology) readiness.
Before and After InspectWrk
Before InspectWrk
- Line and machine inspection logs sit in Excel files on individual desktops.
- Smeta checks are ticked on paper without photo evidence per finding.
- Non-conformances surface during the ISO 9001 audit, not when the deviation actually happened.
After InspectWrk
- Ethical trade auditors complete the audit in the app with photo evidence at the smeta, even offline.
- Managers see open findings, closure status, and the ETI Base Code and applicable local law and the SMETA measurement criteria (Sedex methodology) evidence live on one dashboard.
- Recurring shopfloor defects flag automatically so root cause is fixed before the next batch fails.
Why is a smeta audit checklist important?
It helps ethical trade auditors and supervisors keep manufacturing work consistent, safe, and auditable, with the evidence needed for the ETI Base Code and applicable local law and the SMETA measurement criteria (Sedex methodology):
- Cover the full inspection:structured checks across audit scope, site and SMETA version, management systems and entitlement to work, freely chosen employment, and child labour and young workers surface unresolved smeta defects and repeat findings before they reach handover, audit, or the next shift.
- Document manufacturing findings with the right proof:capture photo evidence on each smeta check on every issue so nothing rests on memory.
- Track manufacturing fixes to closure:each failure becomes an action with an owner, a due date, and a re-inspection that confirms it is done.
- Stay audit-ready:keep one timestamped record for the ETI Base Code and applicable local law and the SMETA measurement criteria (Sedex methodology) you can export instead of rebuilding it from scattered photos and spreadsheets.
What should be included in a smeta audit checklist?
A complete smeta audit checklist works through audit scope, site and SMETA version, management systems and entitlement to work, freely chosen employment, child labour and young workers, wages, benefits and working hours, and discrimination, treatment, freedom of association and regular employment, then records inspection context, scored checkpoints, and evidence with corrective actions:
Inspection context
Record where and when the inspection runs:
- Site, manufacturing location, and asset identification
- Inspector, date, and the manufacturing areas or assets in scope
- Reference numbers or schedules linked to the checklist
Checkpoints and scoring
Define what each checkpoint verifies and how results are scored:
- Audit Scope, Site and SMETA Version
- Management Systems and Entitlement to Work
- Freely Chosen Employment
- Child Labour and Young Workers
- Wages, Benefits and Working Hours
- Discrimination, Treatment, Freedom of Association and Regular Employment
- 20 fields aligned to the checklist
Evidence and corrective actions
Make every finding traceable and actionable:
- Capture photo evidence on each smeta check on failed or critical items
- Corrective actions with owners and due dates for manufacturing teams
- Sign-off, completion status, and follow-up notes
How do teams use a smeta audit checklist?
Follow these steps to run the smeta audit checklist:
- Confirm audit scope and the smeta controls in scope for this review.
- Score audit scope, site and SMETA version, management systems and entitlement to work, freely chosen employment, child labour and young workers, wages, benefits and working hours, and discrimination, treatment, freedom of association and regular employment against the agreed standard.
- Capture photo evidence on each smeta check on every non-conformance and note the control reference.
- Watch for unresolved smeta defects and repeat findings and assign CAPA with owners during the walk.
- Export the scored smeta pack with findings, photos, and the CAPA register.
See how this checklist fits into Manufacturing inspection software.
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