Dear ASI members,
Welcome to ASI's monthly update email to our member organisations. In this month's edition:
- ASI Revision process continues to advance
- ASI Accredited Auditing Firm suspended for inappropriate practices
- Welcome to our new Standards Committee member: Abdoul Khalighi Diallo
- Please get in touch if your ASI contact(s) have changed
- What do you think of ASI's educationAl training modules?
- Updated ASI Log of External Standards available and other elementAl updates
Feel free to share this email with colleagues in your organisation, or ask them to contact us to be added directly to the members mailing list.
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ASI Revision process continues to advance
The Standards Committee has commenced final discussions and deliberations on recommendations put forward by the Working Groups.
As each week flies by, the ASI Standards Committee (SC) and Working Groups (WGs) continue to work diligently on the Standards Revision process to ensure that it stays on schedule. The SC have recently commenced their final discussions and deliberations on the recommendations put forward by the WGs with respect to the revision of both the Performance Standard and Chain of Custody Standard, their respective Guidance documents, Claims Guide and Assurance Manual. The Standards Committee is participating in an intensive two-week work session to approve these revisions for the commencement of the consultation period in early 2021.
>> More about the Revision process.
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ASI Accredited Auditing Firm suspended for inappropriate practices
In the past months, we have unfortunately witnessed several cases of collaboration between auditors during assignments related to the ASI Auditor Training, which has resulted in a short-term suspension of the Accredited Auditing Firm involved.
Collaboration between auditors on assignments is a violation of ASI instructions as noted in both the ASI Auditor Competence and Assessment Procedure and the Fulfilling ASI's requirements to become an ASI Accredited Auditor instruction. When such a violation is identified, the ASI Secretariat may undertake sanctions such as suspension periods or de-accreditation of the individual Auditor/s and/or the Accredited Auditing Firm. Thus, a 6-month suspension from undertaking ASI audits of one of ASI's Accredited Auditing Firms has been applied, and provides a strong reminder to all ASI Accredited Auditing Firms of ASI's integrity principles.
>> More about ASI Accredited Auditing Firms.
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Welcome to New Standards Committee member: Abdoul Khalighi Diallo
Following the nomination period and subsequent deliberations and approval by the ASI Board of Directors, Abdoul Khalighi Diallo has been selected to join the ASI Standards Committee.
Abdoul is currently based in The Netherlands but is originally from Guinea, and has extensive project implementation experience with USAID and Peace Corps projects addressing a broad range of issues related to local communities in Guinea, including nutrition, food security, agribusiness and agroforestry, among others.
We wish Abdoul much success in his work on the Standards Committee and we're happy to welcome him into the broader ASI community.
>> More about the Standards Committee, including meeting minutes.
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Please get in touch if your ASI contact(s) have changed
Time passes and people move on to new organisations and exciting challenges. We would request that you contact our Administration Manager Michelle Freesz if there have been any changes in your organisation's main ASI contacts, i.e., primary and secondary contacts and/or finance contacts.
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What do you think of ASI's educationAl training modules?
If you have gone through all or some of the online modules, we would love to hear from you!
We are currently conducting an analysis of the effectiveness of our educationAl training program so as to better understand our users' overall experience, which topics are most useful, if the format is engaging, and so on. As learning is a continuous journey, there will be more training modules to develop in the future and we would love to have your input on the current set of modules to inform our plans for future training program development and design of our learning materials.
We kindly ask you to take 5 minutes to give your valuable input to our educationAl feedback survey. A big thank you in advance for your feedback. Your input will help us to continuously improve ASI's training interventions!
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Start your learning journey on ASI's online learning portal
If you're new to ASI, you will be happy to know that we offer a comprehensive suite of training webinars covering many aspects of the ASI Standards and Certification program, including deep dives on specific topics like Human Rights; Free, Prior and Informed Consent; the Path to ASI Certification and much more.
Access the ASI Members course here:
https://asi-educational.thinkific.com/courses/asi-course-for-asi-members
You can create an account and track your progress, managing your learning journey at your own pace.
Training on the Certification Scope now accessible with English and French subtitles
To overcome language barriers and improve access to our training content, we are providing the new Member training videos with English and French subtitles, with Chinese to also be added soon. You can now access the Member module on the 'Certification Scope' with English, Chinese or French subtitles.
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Updated ASI Log of External Standards available
The ASI Log of External Standards is a listing of all the External Standards and Schemes that have been identified by ASI and its Members and indicates where they are in the benchmarking process. The latest version of this document has recently been uploaded to elementAl and is available in the downloads section.
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elementAl Updates
Several updates have been made to elementAl. To ensure that you have these updates, please refresh/reload once after you login. To do this, right mouse click on any page and select refresh/reload (depending on your browser).
Audits Page Update
The "Audits" page has been updated with the new table "Completed Audits - Audit Reports" to display the audit reports for all audits where the certification process has been completed. The "Entity Fact Check - Audit Reports" will now only display audit reports for which you have been given access to by your auditor for the entity fact check and where the certification process has not been completed.
Detailed Audit Report and Summary Audit Report Updates
The Detailed Audit Report and Summary Audit Report pages have been updated for scope change and/or surveillance audits to include the "Supply Chain Activities included in this Audit" and the revision number for the certificate related to the certification being updated.
Accredited Auditing Firms Page Updates
Pages relating to Accredited Auditing Firms have been updated from Accredited Auditor Firms for consistency across ASI. This is predominately a terminology update but does include some page name updates.
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Where to find the ASI Member Dashboard
https://aluminium-stewardship.knack.com/asi-assurance-platform#member-dashboard/
You will find instructions for logging in or signing up on the front page.
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elementAl Help Desk
The elementAl Help Desk is available to provide you with support. Remember, you can check the “FAQ” for answers to commonly asked or previously asked questions by other elementAl users. You can also ask your own questions at any time and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Need to arrange an elementAl account? Contact Carolyn Muscat, elementAl Manager.
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Best wishes,
Dr Fiona Solomon
Chief Executive Officer
Email: fiona@aluminium-stewardship.org
Website: www.aluminium-stewardship.org
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