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Operationalising Social Performance Teams Under SA8000

The short version

  • Social Performance Teams must maintain balanced representation between freely elected worker representatives and management members.
  • Senior management retains sole compliance accountability for SA8000 standards while delegating operational risk assessment to the team.
  • Written risk assessments require identifying and prioritising actual or potential non-conformances based on severity and urgency.
  • Assessments must incorporate meaningful consultation with interested parties and inform organisational training plans and monitoring.
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