The SEE Questionnaire currently contains 35 questions across seven SEE issue areas: Community Relations, Corporate Governance, Donations and Payments, Environment, Human Rights, Marketplace Ethics and Workforce.

Community Relations

Q1. Have your company's actions or operations resulted in economic and social impacts that have adversely affected the quality of life in a community? More

Q2. Does your company have a policy to source goods and services from local suppliers? More

Q3. Does your company invest in, directly participate in, or otherwise support, any education in the community? More

Q4. Does your company promote social inclusion? More

Corporate Governance

Q1. Does your company have a corporate governance statement appropriate to the organisation? More

Q2. Is your company's average employee salary at least 5% of the total remuneration of its highest paid executive? More

Donations and Payments

Q1. Does your company take a strategic approach to charitable giving? More

Q2. Does your company have policies or practices to prevent undue influence of appointed or elected public officials? More

Q3. Has your company paid appropriate levels of tax over the last two financial years? More

Environment

Q1. Does your company engage in commercial activities that pose a threat to endangered species and their natural habitats or to other scarce natural resources? More

Q2. Are environmental considerations an integral part of any of your company's product designs or services? More

Q3. Are any of your company's products or services environmentally certified (i.e. under a third party certification scheme addressing environmental aspects, such as eco-labelling or organic certification)? More

Q4. Does your company set targets to reduce 'scope 1 and 2' carbon dioxide emissions? More

Q5. Does your company offset its carbon dioxide emissions? More

Q6. Does your company have a strategy for waste minimisation and management? More

Q7. Do your company's environmental practices and policies extend to suppliers and contractors? More

Q8. Has your company been subject to public complaint or investigation concerning pollution or other environmental damage? More

Q9. Does your company trade in or otherwise use genetically modified organisms? More

Human Rights

Q1. Does your company have a policy to ensure that neither the company nor its suppliers or contractors use forced, bonded or child labour? More

Q2. In the areas of its proposed or current operations, does your company respect the human rights, land, culture and intellectual property of tribal and indigenous peoples? More

Q3. Is your company in joint ventures, or does it have any business relationships, with a military regime (such as that in Burma, also known as Myanmar)? More

Q4. Does your company engage with the arms trade or the arms industry? More

Q5. If your company operates in a conflict area, does it take steps to ensure that business operations do not contribute to tensions? More

Marketplace Ethics

Q1. Does your company make every effort to ensure customers receive a fair and reasonable deal in terms of quality, safety and service in all its products and/or services? More

Q2. Does your company's product labelling and/or service information provide relevant, accurate, unambiguous and easily-accessible information? More

Q3. Have complaints been made against your company to regulatory and/or professional bodies that oversee advertising practices? More

Q4. Has your company, or a representative association, pushed for protection against imports from developing countries? More

Q5. Does your company have a policy to support fair trade? More

Q6. Does your company participate, directly or indirectly, in animal testing? More

Workforce

Q1. Has your company implemented a strategy for promoting health and safety at work? More

Q2. Does your company consider and monitor the race, gender, disability and age of its workforce in recruitment, training and management practices? More

Q3. Does your company consult and cooperate with employees or their representatives, including allowing employees to be represented by trade unions or other workers' groups? More

Q4. Does your company invest in staff training and lifelong learning? More

Q5. Has your company developed accessible work-life balance options that provide flexible working patterns for employees? More

Q6. Does your company have a policy or arrangement in place that allows for carers to balance work with their care responsibilities? More

A full list of the 35 questions in the current SEE Questionnaire is available to download. (NB this list does NOT include the answering guidelines that accompany each question.)

The code for the development of questions for inclusion in future SEE Questionnaires is also available to download.