Reconcile hours and pay for the same period

SA8000 preparation should compare time and wage evidence for the same workers and reporting period. Protect identities while reconciling attendance, shifts, overtime calculations and payment records. File example: access-card hours differ from payroll hours. A newly written wage policy does not resolve the difference. Investigate its source, assign correction of the calculation or record, and retain evidence that the correction actually operated.

Worker participation and implementation evidence

Connect recruitment contracts, agency arrangements, safety risks, operational controls and grievance handling to the defined scope. Arrange access to interviews while protecting privacy; coaching scripted answers is not evidence. Record each finding, cause, responsible person and effectiveness check. Signed policies or completed training lists alone may not demonstrate everyday conditions, particularly where worker accounts and operating records disagree.

Separate learning and recertification dates

For a certification or recertification audit in 2026, required training and self-assessment are completed beforehand; the general deadline for certified organisations is 31 December 2026. Transition auditing follows the relevant SAI cohort and CAB plan separately. The self-assessment is a learning tool: track completion, but do not present its score as an audit result or a certificate.

Quote work packages and decision boundaries

Budget gap review, record corrections, worker-access arrangements, official programme training and CAB assessment separately. Sites, workforce arrangements, missing evidence and substantive corrections affect timing. State the quotation’s follow-up and repeat-review scope. The applicant implements the system and prepares procedures specific to its own operations and operating records. A certification enquiry to Kayra concerns actual activities, sites, application information, authority and impartiality risks; this role does not include designing or implementing the client’s system. A management-system certification body, other parts of the same legal entity and controlled entities cannot offer or provide management-system consultancy; separate contracts do not remove this restriction.

Official sources and use boundaries

Sources were checked on 3 October 2026. Examples are hypothetical preparation scenarios, not customer histories or claims of favourable outcomes. Reconfirm current programme and assessment-body information for the independent decision.