Over the past week, a ChemEng colleague (Joslin Lydall) and I conducted an assurance site visit for a UK-based oil and gas company with off-shore platforms situated northeast of Rio de Janeiro, aligned to AccountAbility’s AA1000AS v3, Type 11 (High) assurance standard.
In a recent Financial Mail magazine article, our Managing Partner and Lead Certified Sustainability Assurance Practitioner, Michael Rea highlighted a confrontation with labour broker Adcorp over the calculation of the “wage gap” between executives and staff.
Since 2022, IRAS has partnered with MyWalk, an enterprise development (ED) project started by Adcock Ingram and Netcare to produce low-cost school shoes from recycled IV drip bags.
Our primary research consists of an annual review of how well JSE listed companies meet reasonable expectations for ESG/Sustainability data transparency. By reviewing ALL annual reports and supplemental documentation, IRAS creates an annual score representing how much quantitative (numerical) comparable performance data is made available to stakeholders.
Additional research reports are produced to cover additional topics such as SDG Reporting and ESG/Sustainability Assurance.