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Radar FAQs, version 3.0, May 2022
Radar frequently asked questions (FAQs)
1. What is Radar and what can I achieve with it?
Radar is an online tool designed to help Sedex members globally to identify key and
relative social and environmental risks across their business and supply chains.
The tool contains risk data based on independent and reputable sources that assess
risks across the four SMETA pillars and 14 risk topics. Radar also includes site data
that is based on information uploaded by members in their Site Profile and Self-
Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ), and from third-party audit reports.
Sedex members can use the information available in Radar to help identify and
ultimately mitigate risk by engaging with the sites within their own business
operations and supply chains that are most likely to be exposed to social and
environmental risks.
2. What guidance is available to help me use Radar?
Visit our Radar Hub to find several documents that will help members use the tool,
including:
• A general guide to risk assessment in supply chains
• Radar guidance
• Methodology briefing note
Radar training is available via webinar; check our latest newsletter or contact
training@sedex.com for details of upcoming sessions. Access to Radar is granted
only to users who have attended Sedex’s risk assessment tool training and signed a
User Agreement.
3. How is the inherent risk score calculated?
Inherent risk scores, produced on a scale of 0-10, where 10 is high risk, are a
combination of country (1-6), sector (1-4) and ‘High Risk Goods’ scores (0-2). If the
score exceeds 10 due to the presence of a high-risk good then it is limited to 10.
Inherent risk scores are applied at pillar (e.g. ‘Labour standards’) and risk topic (e.g.
working hours, regular employment etc.) level.
4. Which sources are used to calculate the country scores?
The country risk indicators are drawn from publicly available sources. They are
chosen according to their coverage, reliability, comparability and relevance.
Indicators are assigned to the relevant risk topic (e.g. working hours, regular
employment etc.) and normalised on a 1 to 6 scale, 6 being high risk.
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Where there were no suitable indicators to address a particular topic, custom
indicators were produced based on data sources that met the selection criteria.
There were no public indicators that adequately covered the risk of forced labour in
supply chains so Sedex commissioned Ergon Associates to develop a Forced Labour
Index.
See Appendix 1 of the methodology briefing note for the list of indicators used.
5. Which High-Risk Goods are scored?
A list of ‘High-Risk Goods’ by country of production was produced according to the
table below:
Risk Author and source
Forced Labour List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor (ILAB, US
Department of Labor)
Child Labour
Deforestation Forest 500 (Global Canopy Project)
Conflict minerals List of conflict-affected and high-risk areas (CAHRAs) (European Union)
Where the combination of country and site activity (ISIC class) indicates the
presence of a High-Risk Good then an additional score of 2 is given. This is reduced
to 1 for Forced Labour for those classes covered by the Forced Labour Index as this
already includes a scoring element for this risk.
6. Which countries are assessed?
The tool provides scores for 248 countries. While all indicators have good coverage,
there are some indicators that do not cover all countries. Values are generated for
these missing countries as follows:
• Countries are grouped geographically using the UN geographic regions
• The average (arithmetic mean) value for the country group is calculated
• The average is assigned to the countries with missing scores
7. Which sectors are assessed?
The sector weighting is applied first at an ISIC “section” level (21 sections) and then
at an ISIC “division” level (99 divisions) where risks vary within the sector.
The ‘Sector and division scores’ document in our Radar Hub includes the sector
scoring criteria, the divisions scored and the explanations of the risks within the
division based on the scoring criteria.
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8. How is the site characteristics risk score calculated?
A subset of the questions asked to a site within the Site Profile and SAQ are used to
produce ‘hard data’ about the type of workers present, how they are hired and
employed, use of hazardous chemicals, and other key characteristics of a site. This
subset of questions is assigned to the relevant pillars. Scores are given against each
answer according to their contribution to the pillar risk.
There is no positive scoring for answers that might mitigate a risk within the Site
Characteristic risk score – management controls are scored in the management
controls section (see question 11). This is to maintain the robustness of the score; to
minimise the likelihood of incorrectly answered questions altering scores, and to
maintain a clear distinction between risks and (potential) mitigation of those risks.
The combined site characteristics risk score is the average of the pillar scores.
9. How are inherent risk scores and site characteristics risk scores combined?
The final risk scores are on a scale of 0-10, where 10 is high risk. They are a
combination of:
• Country, sector and high-risk good scores (“Inherent risk”)
• Site profile & SAQ scores (“Site characteristics risk”)
The combined total risk score is the average of the inherent risk score and the
overall site characteristics score. These are categorised into High (6-10), Medium (4-
6) and Low (0-4) risk according to the underlying scores out of 10.
10. How is a site with more than one activity scored?
A site may register up to three activities. The highest score for each topic
contributes to the overall inherent risk score for the site.
11. What is the Management Controls score?
The management controls approach aims to reflect the practical journey that many
businesses take as they build a mature system to manage their impacts. The goal is
to reward businesses that are striving to develop a fully integrated management
system.
At the highest level, each site receives a score of 0 to 5 (where 5 is the highest and
best score) for the management controls they have in place for each of five pillars.
The pillars are:
• Labour standards
• Health and safety
• Environment
• Business ethics
• Supply chain management
The methodology for scoring the Management Controls question set distinguishes
between different parts of the management system. Further details are available in
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the methodology briefing note.
Suppliers can access their own management controls score within Sedex Analytics.
12. How does a supplier’s Management Controls score affect their overall
risk score?
If the Management Controls score is between 3.0 – 5.0, the overall risk score is
reduced by 25%. If the Management Controls score is between 2.0 – 3.0 the overall
risk score is reduced by 10%.
The reductions are invalidated if the site has any open critical audit risks, or
multiple (6 or more) major audit risks.
13. Does a site’s audit results affect their risk score?
If the overall risk score is less than 6.0 (i.e. below ‘high risk’) and there are any open
‘business critical’ or ‘critical’ audit non-compliances, or 6 or more ‘major’ audit non-
compliances, the score is increased to 6.0 (‘high risk’).
Audit findings are also used within the Forced Labour Indicator tool to highlight if
potential indicators of forced labour have been identified at a site. This does not
currently affect a site’s overall risk score.
14. Does every question of the SAQ have a risk score?
Not every question of the SAQ has a risk score as only a selection of key questions
are included in the risk assessment score.
Questions which are included in the risk assessment score can be identified in the
Site SAQ section of the Site Assessment tool.
Questions from the SAQ about management systems are scored in the Site
Management section of the Site Assessment tool.
15. What score does a site receive if it has not completed or shared the SAQ?
A site that has not completed all of the risk-scored questions in the SAQ only
receives an inherent risk score based on its country and activity.
If a site has denied your company access to view its SAQ, you will only not be able
to see its Site Risk score or Overall Risk Score. You can view its inherent risk score.
16. Why do some supplier sites not appear in Radar?
To receive any risk score, sites need to have complete as a minimum their “Primary
site activity” and “Country” within their Site Profile in Sedex Advance. Sites that have
not completed that information will not be visible within Radar.
Users can check which suppliers are missing this data from the Tracker Report in the
‘My Supply Chain & Risk’ folder in Sedex Analytics.
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17. Can a supplier view its own risk score?
Supplier that are AB members have access to Radar and can view their own risk
scores. Suppliers that are B members do not have access to Radar and cannot view
their risk scores. Customers can share a supplier’s risk score with the supplier at
their discretion, in line with the terms of the risk assessment tool user agreement.
18. Which filters are available in the reports?
To help display relevant information, users will be able to filter the data displayed in
the reports by Subsidiary, Customer Supplier Reference, Customer Site Reference,
Specific Direct Suppliers, Primary Production (see question 17) and up to three
Custom filters.
19. Is it possible to attach my own information about specific suppliers?1
Companies can upload up to three data points (one numeric and two non- numeric)
about individual sites or suppliers. It is then possible to filter the reports by these
values – they are visible within the reports as “Custom Filter 1,2,3). The uploaded
values will be visible to, and usable by, all risk assessment tool users within the
company.
20. What are primary sectors?
By using the Primary Production filters, users of the tool can filter suppliers to only
show producers of primary materials such as agricultural sites and mining sites.
This is based on the site’s ISIC code. ISIC codes associated with primary production
are listed in Appendix 2 of the methodology briefing note.
21. How often will the risk scores be updated?
Inherent risk scores will be updated annually using the latest versions of the
underlying indicators. Risk information and data changes regularly and therefore it is
important to update the information in the risk assessment tool to ensure the tool is
providing a fully up to date and robust analysis for members. Users of the tool will
be given advanced notice of any planned updates.
Any change to SAQ answers or Site Profile information will be reflected in Radar
within 12 hours or less.
1 This feature will be made available after the initial release of Radar.
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22. What is the benefit of the Reported Evidence feature?
The reported evidence table provides links to reports and articles about relevant
issues reported in the selected country. It will be updated on a regular basis and
provides users with further insight into issues reported within particular countries.
Information is sourced from organisations we believe to be credible, such as official
international organisations, international or established national NGOs subject to
public scrutiny, peer-reviewed academic sources, and international or specialised
media.
23. If you run reports weekly, is the previously data over written? Will you
need to save an export to your desktop?
Each time you run a report, the data is updated with live information from the Sedex
platform. If you wish to keep a record of historical results you will have to export your
reports and save them.
24. Can I publish data from Radar in external reports?
Users must request written consent from Sedex prior to publishing data contained
with Radar. Please refer to the Terms and Conditions of Use, available at sedex.com.
25. Who developed Radar?
Radar and the risk assessment methodology was developed by Anthesis, with
additional input from Ergon Associates, Dr. Alexandra Channer and other experts.
Sedex would also like to acknowledge the contributions of the Sedex members and
audit bodies who formed a Project Advisory Group. The final outputs, methodology
and functionality of Radar are the responsibility of Sedex and Anthesis.
About Anthesis
Anthesis’ services include risk assessments and financial due diligence, supply chain
mapping, responsible procurement policies and strategy development, supplier
engagement, assurance and verification, sustainable packaging and plastics and ICT
tools for sustainability.
Anthesis works across industries as varied as food and drink, agriculture, financial
services, packaging, chemicals, and clothing and apparel. They bring together 500+
experts operating in 40 countries around the world with offices in the UK, Germany,
France, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Finland, the USA, Canada, China, South America,
the Philippines and the Middle East.
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About Ergon Associates
Ergon is a specialist consultancy in the field of labour and human rights, gender,
employment and development. It undertakes strategic consultancy, diagnostic
analysis, risk assessments, policy research and training for a diverse range of clients
including international companies, international organisations, development finance
institutions (DFIs), and multi-stakeholder initiatives.
www.ergonassociates.net
About Dr. Alexandra Channer
Alex is a consultant in labour and human rights, with a background in political
communications. She specialises in risk assessments, analysis and research, and
regularly delivers anti-slavery training for UK businesses. Alex’s clients include
companies, international organisations, multi-stakeholder initiatives and certification
schemes.
www.alexandrachanner.co.uk
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