Sedex

SMETA is the most widely used audit in the world. Companies use SMETA to understand and improve working conditions and environmental performance across their business and supply chain.

SMETA is an audit that helps you understand labor, health and safety, environmental performance, and ethical standards within your own operations or at a supplier's site.

Delivered by approved auditing firms, the auditee or supplier receives a Corrective Action Plan to help improve performance in these areas.

The SMETA audit is designed to help protect workers from unsafe conditions, overwork, discrimination, low wages, and forced labor.

APSCA

The Association for Professional Social Compliance Auditors (APSCA) was created to ensure professionalism, consistency and credibility of individual auditors and organizations performing independent social compliance audits, and to promote the use of independent social compliance audits, as a tool to advance workplace conditions for workers, globally. The APSCA certification process will ensure auditors have consistent training, education, background checks, and demonstrate competencies that are standard requirements in comparable professional auditor associations.Joining APSCA, ALGI aims at ensuring consistency in its services, as all auditors comply with the highest standards.

For further information follow the link: http://www.theapsca.org/.

As a Member Firm, ALGI is committed to comply with APSCA Code of Conduct, its regulations and abide by compliance and ethical standards.

ALGI’s APSCA Membership is not, by any means, transferred or extended to any third party nor does ALGI authorize other parties to claim this membership as their own.

If you identify a third party claiming ALGI’s APSCA membership, please contact  internalcompliance@algi.net

Cascale

Cascale is an industry-wide group of more than 250 leading apparel, footwear, and textile, brands, retailers, suppliers, service providers, trade associations, nonprofits/NGOs, and academic institutions working to reduce the environmental and social impact of their products. Through multi-stakeholder engagement, Cascale seeks to lead the industry toward a shared vision of sustainability built upon a common approach for measuring and evaluating apparel, footwear, and textile product sustainability performance that spotlights priorities for action and opportunities for technological innovation. 

For further information follow the link: https://cascale.org/our-members/

GAP Connections

GAP Connections provides leadership for the adoption of agricultural standards and practices which produce a quality crop while protecting, sustaining, or enhancing the environment, ensure the safety and rights of farm laborers, and recognize those producers who are committed to a higher standard.

Higg Index

Higg Index verifiers are accredited professionals who validate the accuracy of self-assessments (FEM or FSLM) for manufacturers, enhancing sustainability transparency for brands and retailers. They review documentation and, in many cases, perform on-site audits to verify environmental or social performance data in accordance with Cascale (formerly SAC) standards.

ZDHC

At ZDHC we believe the MRSL is the answer From automotive to electronics, home goods to packaging, every sector that relies on chemicals has a role to play. The ZDHC MRSL offers a ready-made, globally recognised framework to phase out harmful substances at the source. It’s practical, science-based, and designed for real-world implementation. The ZDHC MRSL helps you reduce risk, stay ahead of regulation, and future-proof your business while protecting the environment. 

The Social and Labor Convergence Program (SLCP)

The Social and Labor Convergence Program (SLCP) is a multi-stakeholder initiative committed to improving working conditions in global supply chains.

Instead of redundant, resource-intensive social audits, SLCP offers a streamlined solution: the Converged Assessment Framework (CAF) - a universal social assessment tool that delivers credible and actionable data, enabling stakeholders to shift focus from repetitive assessments to driving real improvements for workers.

WRAP

WRAP is an independent, objective, non-profit team of global social compliance experts dedicated to promoting safe, lawful, humane, and ethical manufacturing around the world through certification and education. WRAP primary activity is the certification program, which is the largest of its kind in the world mainly focused on apparel, footwear, and sewn products. WRAP also operate a comprehensive social compliance training program.