Oxford Auditing Standards

Our small but experienced team of buyers and merchandisers work directly with our suppliers and their factories to ensure they understand the requirements of our Supplier Code of Conduct These standards have been developed to support and provide detailed information to help a supplier fulfil its obligations to its workers, to our customers and to Oxford.

In addition, Oxford aims to ensure new suppliers understand our requirements before they commence working with us, and existing suppliers take responsibility for maintaining compliance within all their production locations.

During the audit process, we engage with factory management, interview workers and visually assess working conditions and health and safety standards.
We seek to speak to workers individually, as well as within groups, and try to connect with a cross-selection of varying ages, origins and gender as well as workers who have been employed for different lengths of time.

We place emphasis on having local auditors within our team who speak the workers’ language wherever possible. We know this is critical to building a relationship of trust between the auditor and the workers.

Finally, a closing meeting takes place where the auditor provides verbal feedback on any action points that have been identified. The factory management has the opportunity to discuss the findings with the auditor. The timescales for completion of each action are agreed. A written report summarising all findings, agreed actions and timescales is provided to the factory and acts as the corrective action plan for them to implement.

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