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Indranil Mandal, based in Kolkata in India, writes about worker voice, why it matters and why business should go beyond audit to safeguard workers in supply chains.

With a supply chain stretching from pole to pole, Santa has a lot of elves to worry about. Relying on snowcial audits is not enough. So Santa uses Ask The Elves which gives him real-time visibility over elf and safety across the whole chain.

Taking someone's word for it is not due diligence. That's why an effective approach means we must Ask The Workers. Find out why this is becoming a new standard for labour rights due diligence.

We set out a simple theory that can be used to assess the effectiveness of due diligence tools for worker rights in supply chains - and there is a free app coming shortly using this theory - watch this space.

What is the legal and ethical status of data collected by interviewing workers in social audits? We thought that might be quite a simple question - but there's quite a lot to this topic. Find out what we found out!

Worker voice surveys have been around a long time. Yet they are not a standard component of labour rights due diligence processes for responsible and ethical sourcing teams. But there is now a better way.

The humans (workers) are missing from human rights due diligence. What would an ideal technology platform look like to address this? These are the principles defining the Ask the workers approach - and also underwrite how the impact that the platform can make.

Effective ethical sourcing means backing up sensible policies with effective actions. This is part 3 of 3 posts exploring what that involves in practice.

This post collects up our FAQs into one place. You can find our FAQs better presented on our home page, and you can ask your questions to our AI Chat and also get the benefit of Claude's wider knowledge.

Business should recognise its duty of care to workers in its locations and supply chains. Here's why and what government should do.

PrimaESG - providing proof of source and proof of claim at global scale from supply chains

See ES3G in one minute - and how continuous worker monitoring enables you to know how workers are treated in your supply chains. Simple, low

Important article setting out the limitations of worker voice data

HRDD | human rights due diligence | ask the workers how they are treated

Worker voice and how it can be used to monitor workplace conditions and for human rights due diligence

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