Effective risk management is a core function of assurance. Environmental and human rights-related risks can change depending on time, location and context, and assurance processes can also be vulnerable to integrity risks such as poor auditor competence or conflicts of interest. To ensure the accuracy and reliability of assurance results, ISEAL is supporting sustainability systems to understand where these risks arise and put processes in place to respond accordingly. By participating in peer-learning opportunities and making use of ISEAL’s tools and resources on this topic, Community Members are able to:

• identify whether they have the necessary foundations to identify and quantify risk...

The pandemic challenged many sustainability systems to adapt and change how they performed on-site audits. It also became a catalyst for innovation, driving many to embrace new technologies, data solutions and policy interventions. Remote auditing tools and practices enabled access to data during the pandemic, helping to improve the detection of sustainability and health risks, as well as enabling auditors to assess sites remotely. In many ways, it has helped strengthen the resilience of sustainability systems in response to the pandemic. This period of innovation has given rise to a new age of hybrid auditing that combines both remote and traditional on-site approaches. It...