Sustainable Swim

Social Audits
Where inspectors travel to factories to assess the conditions of the factory against a code of conduct. Inspectors will look at wage sheets, timekeeping, personnel records, check health and safety problems, watch the working at work, and conduct interviews with managers and workers. Social Audits can take days, or a few hours. Social audits are not entirely reliable however as some suppliers and factories will hide and cover up any aspects that may fail them the inspection, for example giving underage workers the day off, protecting themselves from child labour laws. Workers may be train to say 'the right things' to the inspectors in interviews, as admitted by a factory manager in North India, “We hold meetings with the workers, train them, before the audit. We tell them what may be asked and what should be answered”
Source: http://www.labourbehindthelabel.org/campaigns/itemlist/category/220-clean-up-fashion