Beyond Audits

For years, companies have relied on social audits as a form of due diligence to manage human rights risks within their supply chains. But it is becoming clear that audits, while a useful tool in the toolbox, are not fit for purpose as a robust solution on their own to truly identify and mitigate human rights violations within supply chains and operations.

Audits serve as a compliance check, capturing information in a specific timeframe with most audits doing very little to uncover the root causes of systemic issues or to drive remedial action.