Unlike other organisations, we do not have a formal system for registering or accrediting auditing companies for doing inspections against the ETI Base Code, nor do we carry out audits ourselves. That means in principle there is nothing to stop any third company carrying out an audit of a supplier against the ETI Base Code, but we strongly recommend that they can offer an audit team that has the necessary skills to obtain accurate information about workers' conditions. It's worth noting that in our experience, carrying out audits of working conditions requires very different skills to those required for other types of audits - for example, financial, environmental or quality audits.
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