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The UK Government has announced mandatory human rights due diligence for businesses with turnover over £350m. It’s a move from reporting towards action. Businesses in scope will be expected to identify, assess and address human rights and labour exploitation risks in their operations and supply chains. The Government also plans to give a regulator powers to direct the withdrawal of goods made with forced labour from the Great Britain market. There’s no start date yet, and businesses below the threshold aren’t directly in scope. But their buyers may start asking for stronger evidence. Read what’s been announced, what’s still unknown and what to review now: https://lnkd.in/ejVr67MM/?utm_campaign=Boost_Post_WebsiteVisits_Nov5,2026&utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=paid&utm_id=1249785363&hsa_acc=508061479&hsa_cam=1249785363&hsa_grp=898496193&hsa_ad=1609534193&hsa_net=linkedin&hsa_ver=3 #DueDiligence #SupplyChain

What does an experienced auditor notice in the first five minutes on site? Before the paperwork is opened or the formal audit begins, there are already clues worth paying attention to. How workers arrive. Whether the site matches what was expected. Security arrangements. PPE. Housekeeping. Even the atmosphere between workers and managers. None of those things proves there is a problem. The skill is knowing what to notice, staying objective and deciding which observations are worth testing against the evidence that follows. We asked members of the Verisio audit team what they notice first when they arrive at a supplier site. Their answers were more varied than you might expect. Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/eNugYkvm/?utm_campaign=Boost_Post_WebsiteVisits_Oct21,2026&utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=paid&utm_id=1237416273&hsa_acc=508061479&hsa_cam=1237416273&hsa_grp=896937523&hsa_ad=1592550453&hsa_net=linkedin&hsa_ver=3 #SupplierAudits #SupplierAssurance #Audits

A football shirt can sell for £90. The person making it may be earning less than £1 an hour in basic pay. That is the contrast at the centre of a BBC Sport investigation published today. The BBC traced official shirts for clubs including Arsenal, Celtic, Liverpool and Real Madrid to two factories in Cambodia. Workers described factory temperatures above 35°C, pressure to hit production targets of up to 700 items a day, verbal abuse and safety concerns. Both factories are primary Adidas suppliers and subject to its workplace standards. Adidas says it carries out around 1,200 factory audits a year and works with suppliers to address issues where they are identified. That is what makes this story worth paying attention to. The lesson is not that audits have no value. They do. It is that a strong audit programme still needs to be connected to worker voice, corrective action, repeat trends and what is happening in practice on the factory floor. For brands, there are a few practical questions worth asking when reports like this surface. · Are worker interviews telling the same story as management records? If not, that gap needs explaining. · Are the same issues recurring? Repeat findings can point to weak root-cause work or pressure elsewhere in the production model. · What changed after the last audit? Closing a corrective action is useful, but follow-up matters if you want to know whether the improvement held. · Are commercial pressures part of the problem? Production targets, lead times and pricing can all affect what happens on site. That is where supplier assurance becomes more than a pass/fail exercise. A site can have regular audits and still need closer scrutiny if worker testimony, production pressure or repeat findings suggest the picture on file is incomplete. The practical lesson is to connect the evidence rather than look at each source on its own: audit data, worker voice, corrective action, repeat trends and onsite verification should help build one picture. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gBdggBjg/?utm_campaign=Boost_Post_Engagement_Oct8,2026&utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=paid&utm_id=1228369003&hsa_acc=508061479&hsa_cam=1228369003&hsa_grp=895990433&hsa_ad=1577226033&hsa_net=linkedin&hsa_ver=3 #SupplyChain #EthicalTrade #SupplierAssurance #ResponsibleSourcing

A risk map should help procurement distinguish between different kinds of exposure, not make everything look equally concerning. That matters in construction, because timber, brick, stone, ceramics and metals don’t carry the same risk profile. One material may raise questions around labour conditions. Another may need stronger traceability. Another may depend more heavily on certification or audit evidence. The point isn’t to make every category look high risk. It’s to understand what sits behind the rating, then ask for evidence that matches the actual risk. That’s how we approached our new Construction Material Risk Map. It compares key construction materials across different risk dimensions and sets out the supplier questions that follow from each. Download the Construction Material Risk Map here: https://lnkd.in/eYbNgFKM/?utm_campaign=Boost_Post_WebsiteVisits_Sep22,2026&utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=paid&utm_id=1225499783&hsa_acc=508061479&hsa_cam=1225499783&hsa_grp=891359203&hsa_ad=1558328583&hsa_net=linkedin&hsa_ver=3

The Qatar World Cup made worker welfare a mainstream conversation. Six years on, the 2026 tournament is raising the same questions in a different form. No construction deaths this time - but thousands of temporary workers are expected to work in dangerous heat, in states with no legal obligation to protect them, with limited ability to raise concerns without losing the work. FIFA assumes 40% of its workforce will be low-skilled, temporary, earning below the national average. That's not incidental - it's built into the model. We've written about what this tells us about supply chain visibility more broadly: https://lnkd.in/eRCmDMwU #SupplyChain #ESG #WorkerWelfare

We recommend that at least 20% of supplier audits are unannounced. That's not a rule of thumb. It's something you understand viscerally the first time you walk onto a site that wasn't expecting you. The difference in what you see, in how people move, where management goes, what gets explained and what doesn't, is significant. Announced audits have their place. But if every visit is scheduled, you're only ever seeing what a site has had time to prepare. If you're a retailer or brand sourcing from overseas factories, it's worth asking: what proportion of your audits this year were unannounced? Verisio Verify is our unannounced, independent spot-check audit → find out what it covers here: https://lnkd.in/e_6fDGny #SupplyChainDueDiligence #EthicalSourcing