Human Rights Due Diligence Solutions

Understand your risks. Assess your supply chain. Take meaningful action.

Identify and manage human rights risks across your supply chain with Intertek SAI Global Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) solutions, including Inlight™, Workplace Conditions Assessment (WCA) and practical Human Rights Due Diligence workshops.

Human rights risks can exist anywhere across your operations and supply chain – from forced labour and child labour to unsafe working conditions, discrimination and inadequate worker protections.

Intertek SAI Global’s Human Rights Due Diligence solutions help organisations identify, assess and address human rights risks across their supply chains and operations. From technology-enabled supply chain risk management to workplace assessments and practical HRDD workshops, we provide the expertise and tools to help you move from policy to action.

Our expert team of HRDD specialists can provide your organisations with practical solutions, no matter where you are on the journey.

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A practical approach to human rights due diligence

Effective HRDD is more than a policy statement. It requires an ongoing process of identifying risks, taking action and monitoring outcomes.

1. Understand
Build a clear picture of your human rights risks and exposure.
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Start by understanding where your organisation, operations and supply chain may be exposed to human rights risks. This includes considering your industry, geographic footprint, workforce, sourcing arrangements, business relationships and the nature of the products or services you procure.

We can help you identify priority human rights issues, understand your current level of maturity and establish the foundations for a structured due diligence programme.

We can support you with:

  • Human rights risk and maturity assessments
  • Supply chain risk mapping and prioritisation
  • Review of existing policies, processes and governance
  • Identification of priority human rights issues and vulnerable groups
  • Workshops to build internal awareness and capability

 

2. Assess
Turn information into a clearer understanding of risk and potential impact.
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Effective HRDD requires more than collecting data. Organisations need to assess the likelihood and potential severity of human rights impacts across their operations and value chain.

Using assessments, data, audits and expert insight, we can help you evaluate risks across suppliers, sites, countries and business activities — giving you a stronger evidence base for decision-making and action.

We can support you with:

  • Supplier and workplace assessments
  • Human rights risk assessments
  • Social compliance audits and assessments
  • Supply chain data analysis
  • Desktop and on-site assessments
  • Expert interpretation of findings and emerging risks
3. Prioritise
Focus resources where the potential impact is greatest.
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Not every supplier, location or human rights issue presents the same level of risk. A risk-based approach helps you direct resources towards the areas where action is most needed.We can help you develop practical risk criteria and prioritisation approaches that consider factors such as geography, industry, workforce characteristics, supplier performance, severity of potential impacts and the effectiveness of existing controls.

Not every supplier, location or human rights issue presents the same level of risk. A risk-based approach helps you direct resources towards the areas where action is most needed.

We can help you develop practical risk criteria and prioritisation approaches that consider factors such as geography, industry, workforce characteristics, supplier performance, severity of potential impacts and the effectiveness of existing controls.

We can support you with:

  • Supplier risk segmentation
  • Risk-based due diligence programs
  • Identification of high-risk suppliers and locations
  • Prioritisation of human rights issues
  • Development of targeted assessment and engagement programs
  • Data-driven supply chain risk visibility through Intertek Inlight™
4. Act
Move from identifying risks to preventing, addressing and remediating impacts.
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Due diligence is only effective when organisations act on what they find. This may involve engaging suppliers, strengthening controls, implementing corrective action, building supplier capability or establishing appropriate remediation processes.

Intertek SAI Global can help you move beyond risk identification and put practical actions in place to address identified gaps and improve human rights performance.

We can support you with:

  • Supplier engagement and improvement programmes
  • Corrective action planning and follow-up
  • Human Rights Due Diligence workshops
  • Workplace Conditions Assessments (WCA)
  • SMETA social compliance audits
  • Remediation support and guidance
  • Training and capability building for suppliers and internal teams
5. Monitor
Track progress, test effectiveness and continuously improve.
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Human rights risks change over time. New suppliers, markets, regulations, business activities and external events can create new exposures, while existing risks may evolve.

Ongoing monitoring helps you understand whether your actions are working and where further intervention may be required. By combining assessments, audits, data and ongoing supplier engagement, you can create a more continuous view of human rights performance.

We can support you with:

  • Ongoing supplier monitoring and reassessment
  • Follow-up audits and corrective action verification
  • Performance tracking and reporting
  • Supply chain risk monitoring
  • Trend and issue analysis
  • Continuous improvement programmes
  • Evidence to support internal and external reporting

From supply chain visibility to action

Human rights due diligence shouldn’t operate in isolation.

By combining Intertek Inlight™, Workplace Conditions Assessments and HRDD workshops, organisations can build a more connected approach to human rights risk management.

Inlight™ helps you understand where risks may exist.
WCA helps you assess conditions on the ground.
HRDD workshops help your people understand how to respond and build stronger internal capability.

Together, these solutions can help turn human rights commitments into measurable action.

Our approach

Global expertise. Local understanding. Practical solutions.

Managing human rights risks requires more than a checklist. You need experience across supply chains, industries, workplaces and evolving regulatory expectations.

Intertek SAI Global combines global assurance expertise, local knowledge and practical risk management solutions to help organisations build more resilient and responsible supply chains.

Independent

Objective assessments and assurance from an experienced global organisation.

Practical

Solutions designed to help you identify risks and determine what to do next.

Scalable

From individual workplace assessments to broader supply chain risk management programs.

Action-focused

Move beyond identifying risks to prioritising action, remediation and continuous improvement.

Expert-led

Combine human rights expertise, supply chain insight and proven assessment methodologies to help you understand complex risks and make informed decisions.

End-to-end

Support your organisation across the full due diligence journey – from understanding and assessing risks through to remediation, monitoring and ongoing improvement.

Our Human Rights Due Diligence Solutions

Intertek Inlight™

Supply chain human rights risk management

Intertek Inlight™ helps organisations gain greater visibility of supply chain risks and make informed decisions about where action is needed.

Designed to support responsible supply chain management, Intertek Inlight™ brings together risk intelligence, supplier information, assessments and actionable insights to help organisations identify and manage ESG and human rights risks.

With Intertek Inlight™, you can:

  • Gain visibility across your supplier network
  • Identify higher-risk suppliers and locations
  • Assess human rights and social compliance risks
  • Prioritise suppliers requiring further attention
  • Track corrective actions and remediation
  • Monitor risk and supplier performance
  • Generate data to support more informed procurement decisions.
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Workplace Conditions Assessment (WCA)

See what’s really happening in your supply chain

Policies and supplier declarations only tell part of the story.

A Workplace Conditions Assessment (WCA) provides an independent assessment of workplace conditions, helping organisations identify potential risks and opportunities for improvement at supplier sites.

WCA can assess areas such as:

  • Labour and employment practices
  • Working hours and wages
  • Health and safety
  • Worker welfare
  • Child labour
  • Forced labour
  • Discrimination and harassment
  • Management systems and workplace practices

The result is a clearer picture of conditions at the workplace – helping you identify issues, prioritise action and strengthen supplier performance.

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Human Rights Due Diligence Workshops

Build practical HRDD capability within your organisation

Human rights due diligence can be complex. Our HRDD workshops help organisations understand what effective due diligence looks like and how to apply it in practice.

Our experienced specialists can help your teams understand:

  • The fundamentals of human rights due diligence
  • Key human rights risks in your industry and supply chain
  • How to identify and assess human rights impacts
  • How to prioritise risks
  • Supplier engagement and remediation
  • Roles and responsibilities across the organisation
  • How to integrate HRDD into procurement and risk management
  • How to strengthen existing human rights policies and processes.
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Is your organisation prepared for human rights risks in its supply chain?

Whether you are starting your human rights due diligence journey or looking to strengthen an existing program, we can help you determine the right approach. Speak with our human rights and supply chain specialists to discuss your organisation’s needs.
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