CSR Audit – Corporate Social Responsibility

CSR Audit

As a comprehensive social responsibility consultancy, we provide solutions for your CSR auditing needs:

Ecovadis - Corporate sustainability

The Ecovadis audit helps assess the sustainability of a company through the Ecovadis questionnaire. Among the advantages of this CSR audit, we highlight:

  • It helps assess corporate sustainability in a standardised way. It allows you to compare the sustainability of your company with others.
  • Transparency and clarity on areas for improvement. It provides a roadmap for actions to improve sustainability.
  • Reputation. A high score in EcoVadis means a gold medal. It improves your reputation among customers and business partners.
  • It reinforces your CSR image. Accessible to all companies through the Ecovadis platform. EcoVadis can be used by large companies as well as small, medium and micro enterprises.
  • Regulatory compliance. EcoVadis helps ensure compliance with environmental and social regulations.

The SMETA audit assesses ethical and responsible trade, both within companies and throughout the supply chain. SMETA provides:

  • Internationally recognised. It facilitates trade and commercial relations by reducing certification audits through the simple sharing of reports and results with interested customers via SEDEX.
  • Transparency and trust with customers and business partners, giving SMETA a clear and detailed picture of companies’ ethical and labour compliance.
  • Comprehensive assessment of business ethics. SMETA assesses key areas such as labour rights, occupational health and safety, environmental impact and business integrity (anti-corruption).
  • Continuous improvement: By identifying areas for improvement to implement better labour and social practices in your supply chain.

Lucie Progress Label assesses the organisation’s CSR maturity. The assessment will be scored out of 1,000 points using a reference framework aligned with the ISO CSR standard, ISO 26000.

As experts in Corporate Social Responsibility with over 25 years of experience, we are qualified to conduct the internal CSR audit of your CSR certificate:

  • SGE21 Forética audit of your SGE21 Forética certificate.
  • IQNet SR10 audit of your IQNet SR10 certificate.

We know how to carry out internal audits, integrated with other certificates such as ISO 9001 for quality, ISO 14001 for environmental management, and ISO 45001 for occupational health and safety.

Emasconsultors is the best CSR consultancy for you. Find out here why you should choose us as your consultancy.

CSR Audit FAQs

What is a social responsibility audit?

A corporate social responsibility (CSR) audit assesses a company’s compliance with standards, policies and practices related to sustainability and corporate social responsibility.

The Corporate Social Responsibility audit assesses:

  • Environment (Environmental management and regulatory compliance). Linked to ISO 14001 and EMAS.
  • Working conditions (labour rights, fair wages, occupational health and safety ISO 45001, and non-discrimination in the workplace).
  • Human rights (prevention of child labour, forced labour and labour exploitation), both in the company’s direct operations and in its supply chain.
  • Business ethics (policies to prevent corruption, bribery, unfair commercial practices, sustainable procurement, and to ensure fair competition).
  • Community relations to contribute to the development and well-being of local communities.
  • Corporate governance to ensure ethical and responsible decision-making.

Generally, the following aspects are evaluated:

  • Compliance with labour regulations, occupational risk prevention and environmental management.
  • Respect for human rights.
  • Environmental management and reduction of its impact. This can be through its ISO 14001 certificate.
  • Business ethics and the fight against bribery and corruption.
  • Transparency and corporate governance. This can be demonstrated with a GRI or CSDR report.
  • CSR actions related to commitment to the local community and social development.

Some of the main CSR standards that can be audited are:IQNet

  • SR10 – Social Responsibility Management System.
  • SGE21 Forética – Ethical and socially responsible management system.
  • SA8000 – Social and Social Responsibility Certification.
  • ISO 26000 – Social responsibility guide.
  • Ecovadis – Risk management, ESG and SDGs.
  • SMETA – Ethical trade and social responsibility audit.
  • Lucie Proress Label – Sustainability and CSR audit.
  • B-Corp – Sustainable and regenerative business model.
  • GRI – Global Reporting Initiative.
  • SDGs – United Nations Global Compact.
  • Improves the company’s reputation and image.
  • Identifies risks and opportunities, determining areas for improvement.
  • Increases the confidence of investors, consumers and employees.
  • Compliance with legal regulations and stakeholder expectations (materiality analysis).
  • Promotes an internal CSR culture.

Some of the criteria for choosing a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) auditor to ensure that the audit is useful for the growth and improvement of the company are:

  • Experience in CSR, including experience in CSR audits. This allows for a more comprehensive and useful audit. An experienced CSR auditor adds value through practical recommendations.
  • Independence and objectivity to avoid conflicts of interest. It also requires transparency in the process to ensure that the process is objective and rigorous.
  • Reputation of the consulting firm and references for the auditor. These give a clear idea of the quality of the auditor’s work.
  • Knowledge of regulations for the sector in which it operates. This allows it to assess legal compliance.
  • Ability to audit various recognised standards such as IQNet SR10, SGE21 Forética, GRI, Ecovadis or SMETA.
  • Communication skills in explaining and offering recommendations.
  • Structured and transparent audit methodology, as well as site visits and document review to validate the information provided.
  • Flexibility and availability to adapt to the company’s schedule, size, sector, particularities and complexity.
  • Cost and value for money. Very inexpensive auditors may not perform a sufficiently thorough audit.
  • Follow-up and closure of the audit to verify the progress of improvements.
  • Use of technological tools for data collection, impact analysis, and monitoring of sustainability indicators. Facilitates the audit of digital practices.
  • Ability to work with stakeholders, interacting with different stakeholder groups and facilitating the effective management of different stakeholder perspectives and considering their expectations during the assessment.

Ask us for a quote. Our auditors meet all these criteria.

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