Audit Firms Membership

APSCA is a collaboration between the audit firms, auditors, stakeholders, and customers of the social compliance audit industry, which play a vital role in assessing and improving workplace conditions throughout global supply chains. APSCA aims to maintain and raise the value, quality, consistency and integrity of the industry, by establishing professional certification standards for social compliance auditors and the firms for which they work.

APSCA is not a regulatory body. It does not grant or deny permission to firms or individuals to perform social compliance audits. While companies and organisations may consider the credibility of APSCA membership in the engagement of social compliance auditors and audit firms, APSCA does not provide recommendations of auditors or firms.

APSCA will only grant and maintain membership to firms complying with APSCA’s Code and Standards of Professional Conduct and Competency Framework, as well as the other conditions in the Audit Firm Membership Application Form. If there are deficiencies in the policies, procedures, or other aspects of the Applicant’s social compliance audit business that APSCA, in its discretion, considers minor, then APSCA may grant the Applicant provisional membership for up to twelve months to allow the Applicant to rectify those minor deficiencies.