OWW Consulting - OWW Consulting

OWW Consulting offers assurance and assessment services that check the accuracy of your CSR information. This service provides an affordable way to help your organisation demonstrate transparency and accountability over the following:

• Economic Performance
• Social Performance: Labour Practices and Decent Work
• Social Performance: Human Rights
• Social Performance: Society
• Social Performance: Product Responsibility
• Environmental Performance

Our review process can include the following activities:

• Interviews and face-to-face meetings with relevant personnel, at corporate and operational level, responsible for the information in your CSR Report.
• Documentary evidence reviewed from both internal and external communications. These can include:
  • Internal reports
  • Reports generated from internal specialist management information systems
  • Established Codes of Conduct embedded within Management Handbooks
  • Conditions of Employment Agreements
  • Operating manuals
  • Internal newsletters and staff memos
• Observing related facilities and areas including notice  boards, site facilities and management offices
• Viewing the processes and calculations of the system for energy and water consumption and emissions monitoring and reduction
• Challenges to the CSR related statements and claims made in the Report
• Site visits to review processes, procedures and documentation
• Meetings with external stakeholders to verify the integrity of  your programmes

Benefits of Reporting and Assurance

The main benefits of our Assurance are:

• Enhanced reputation among your stakeholders
• Improved brand value created from your CSR Report adds credibility,  customer attractiveness and competitiveness in the marketplace
• The identification and management of key risks and opportunities for future development

Assurance Standards

There are no mandatory international standards for the assurance of CSR Reports. OWW Consulting applies our own strict Code of Conduct on Assurance and Assessment which draws on international best practice and guidelines including:

• The principles of balance, comparability, accuracy, timeliness, clarity, relevance and reliability in the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G3 Guidelines.
• The principles of independence of assurance in the GRI-G3 Guidelines, the AA1000AS and the the International Standard on Assurance Engagements (ISAE 3000) are taken into account.

Further details can be found in our Assurance and Assessment - Code of Conduct.