SMETA Audit & Certification

What is SMETA Audit & Certification?

SMETA Audit & is a widely adopted and standardized Quality Management System (QMS) for the Aerospace industry. The aerospace community has specific requirements that need to be taken into account, and the QMS needs to incorporate these critical requirements. The SMETA Audit & Certification was introduced in 1997 by the International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG) based on the internationally recognized standard ISO 9001 in order to encourage International quality, safety, and technology standards in air transport. The certification can be applied to all areas in aviation like design and manufacture of equipment, airport and airline operations, aircraft accessory supply, spares supply, and maintenance.

SMETA (Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit) is the most widely used social audit in the world. SMETA is Sedex’s social auditing methodology which enables businesses to assess their sites and suppliers to understand working conditions in their supply chain. SMETA assesses a site based on its organization’s standards of labor, health and safety, environment, and business ethics. It is also designed for suppliers to share one audit with multiple customers, meeting all customer requirements and reducing duplication and audit fatigue.

Why do I need Kwikcert in particular?

Because we keep the entire process simpler, SMETA Audit & Certification can take just 7 – 30 days to complete the process based on your company’s size. In fact, our ‘Hassle-free certification’ approach provides the following benefits

• Reduce the time taken to acquire SMETA Certification
• No Certification cost
• We provide you access to web-based online Process Repository Software to manage your complete process documentation
• 24/7 access to our back end support team who can manage your process documentation remotely
• Reduce management time required
• Reduce the cost of maintaining Certification

Benefits of SMETA Audit &

Applying the SMETA Audit & will help administrations to work with an OH&S management system that can advance its occupational wellbeing and security management in the following ways.

• Developing and executing a rigorous and comprehensive OH&S policy along with objectives
• Establishing smart operational controls for managing OH&S risks along with its legal ramifications and other factors
• Clearly marking the jeopardies and perils associated with OH&S and its activities and then trying to eliminate them; it may also involve the implementation of controls which can reduce their potential effects
• Founding actual systematic courses that consider the opportunities and risks as well as the legal aspects of SMETA Audit &
• Evaluating the overall OH&S performance as well as coming up with ways to improve it by taking various types of suitable arrangements
• Increasing the awareness of OH&S risks
• Making sure that the workers and employees actively follow all OH&S matters

Implementing theSMETA Audit & can also help to make sure that a company gains a strong reputation as a safe and healthy place to work. This can also encourage new potential employees to get interested in working with the company. It can also have the following benefits:

• It can help in enhancing the ability of a company to attend all regulatory compliance issues
• It can bring down the cost associated with the insurance premiums
• The standard can reduce the costs associated with downtime as well as disruption of operations
• It can make it easier to reduce the costs of all incidents
• It can also minimize absenteeism in a major way and also enhance employee turnover rates

It can bring recognition that comes with achieving an international benchmark. This can also impact the mindset of the customers who may become positively concerned about their diverse safety and social responsibilities.

Who should follow SMETA Audit &?

SMETA is one of the many services offered by KwikCert, the global consulting and certification solutions provider. Sedex member companies cover a wide number of industries and sectors around the world. While original members were some of the world’s largest retailers and consumer brands, Sedex now counts companies from sectors including finance, airlines, construction, and technology as part of its global community. Our highly qualified auditors carry out on-site observations, conduct interviews with factory management and workers, inspect documents provided by the factory, and present their findings in a SMETA Audit Report. Based on the audit report, our experts prepare a SMETA Corrective Action Plan Report (CAPR). We deliver SMETA certification services across the globe.

SMETA has three elements:
1. A common Best Practice Guidance on conducting ethical trade audits.
2. A common Audit Report format.
3. A common Corrective Action Plan format.

SMETA’s role is to align social audit standards and monitoring practices, to ease the auditing burden on suppliers by sharing reports and driving improvements in supply chain labor standards. It reduces audit fatigue by providing a single format for audits, which are widely accepted. It motivates the workforce while also improving efficiency in the workplace. It helps your organization stand out from the competition with neutral evidence of your corporate citizenship.