Official Mission Statement

In 2010, the largest CSR supply chain auditing and certification body, Intertek, set out to challenge norms on scheduling, tracking, conducting and reporting on social responsibility audits. Rooted in 20 years of experience in supply chain auditing for CSR performance, the Workplace Conditions Assessment (WCA) is a data driven, software-based community platform that enables automated data collection leading to ratings based measurable audit results. Auditors are provided an efficient and streamlined audit format based on Intertek’s leading eAudit technology, and brand/retailer users of the WCA have access to invaluable data mining tools that can help set performance metrics which are capable of being benchmarked against global, industry, and country averages.

Year of Establishment 2010

Key Features

* WCA is an initiative for evaluating, benchmarking and continuously improving supplier workplace conditions.

* A unique feature is the design of WCA was driven by an authoritative auditing body with market renowned experience and considerable history in social compliance auditing.

o Free of charge access to Intertek’s market leading web-based platform that automates and streamlines the audit process, increasing efficiencies for all supply chain partners. The system offers real time supplier management, scheduling, tracking and data-analytics are provided through an online platform.

Facts and Figures

o From 2010 to May 2015, the collaborative Workplace Conditions Assessment (WCA) community platform offers over 25,000 audit reports of over 16,000 unique sites audited.

* The WCA program has been adopted and accepted by over 150 international brands and retailers

* Serviced primarily by Intertek, with more than 39,000 employees in over 110 countries

可持续网站对该标准进行了环境、社会、管理、质量和伦理五个维度的分析，该标准在社会维度占比30%，环境维度占比47%，管理维度占比19%，质量维度占比3%，伦理维度占比1%。具体数据及分析请点击以下链接进行查看： Click to see the standards analysis on ITC Sustainability website.

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