Ok off topic here, but anyone want to help me out here? SMETA audits, who has responsibility? Our customer wants one so I booked one, which made everyone assume I knew what I was doing and would 'handle it'. I did fill out all the pre assessment forms and the sedex SAQ, but that was together with CSR.
Seems like the audit spans Health and safety, HR and working conditions, CSR and sustainability etc, all things I wouldn't have a clue about.
I'm QA
I organize the SMETA audits here, ostensibly because we have more people and more experience dealing with audits and auditors in general, but the content clearly makes this 99.99% HR and personnel safety. The only food safety adjacent question is the potable water report, or the break room.
Similar to your description, I fill out the parts that are general enough on questionnaires and highlight those and any that need department feedback and pass them to the relevant department managers to complete. The on-site is much the same, I provide some organization and answer the generic stuff, then bring in the appropriate people to handle their specifics.
Honestly, I think this audit is longer than all of our food safety and quality on-site audits added together, and would love to pass it off to HR.