AUDITS AND REPORTS

SFI-certified organizations certified to the Forest Management, Fiber Sourcing, Chain-of-Custody and/or Certified Sourcing Standards are required to undergo annual surveillance audits by independent and accredited certification bodies to deliver ongoing conformance. To maintain a current forest management, fiber sourcing, and/or chain-of-custody certificate, certified organizations must undergo a full recertification audit every five years.

SFI-certified organizations must provide a public audit summary to SFI following a certification, recertification, or surveillance audit to the Forest Management or Fiber Sourcing Standard. They must submit the summary, to be posted on the SFI website, before they can make any public claims or statements about the audit. These public audit summaries must be prepared by the independent certification body.

Public summary documents that detail the most recent full assessment and the last two recent surveillance audits can be found on www.sfidatabase.org. If an audit report is not listed, please contact the company of interest to obtain a copy. To submit a report for posting and/or for all other inquiries, please contact SFIReporting@forests.org.