Verification & Assurance
Create confidence in your business practices and operations while managing quality, risks, safety and sustainability with SGS
What are assurance and verification services?
We offer a comprehensive portfolio of world-leading, third-party assessments that validate your business activities to help you prove that they are performed to specific levels or standards. We also provide the highest-quality data validation services to help validate key information concerning sustainability, quality, working conditions and more.
We can help you to demonstrate the best standards across many areas, from business practices and operations to safety and sustainability, to improve your organization and suppliers across your supply chain.
How can SGS help?
As the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, with decades of experience, we can help you along the path to assurance and validation with our end-to-end service.
We enable you to:
- Increase confidence through data validated by a trusted third party
- Implement best-practice systems to manage areas like quality and ESG
- Efficiently use resources to help you and your suppliers reduce costs
- Demonstrate progress toward commitments and impacts
- Make informed and sustainability-led decisions based on recent, updated and reliable data
- Substantiate claims and minimize risks, such as greenwashing
- Enhance supply-chain transparency to better understand changes
- Comply with existing and upcoming regulations
Contact your local SGS representative for more information.
*We avoid any conflicts of interest. For example, we cannot calculate data or provide data collection and then validate it, as this creates a conflicting situation.
Our services
CSDDD Compliance & Assurance Services
CSRD Compliance & Assurance Services
Ecodesign, LCA, EPD & Circular Economy Certification
Environmental Audits
ESG Certification
ESG Disclosures & Sustainability Report Assurance
ESG Gap Analysis
ESG Health Check
ESG KPI Verification & Assurance
ESG Training
ETS Verification Services
EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)
EU Methane Regulation (EUMR) (EU) 2024/1787: Measuring, Monitoring, Reporting & Verification
Fitness for Service Assessment
ISO 14019 Series – Validate and Verify Sustainability Information
ISO 14064-1 Verification – Quantify and Report Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions and Removals
ISO 14067 Verification – Greenhouse Gases – Carbon Footprint of Products
ISO 14068 Verification – GHG and Climate Change Management – Carbon Neutrality
ISO 37001 Certification – Anti-Bribery Management Systems
ISO 59020 Verification – Circular Economy, Measuring and Assessing Circularity Performance
Product Carbon Footprint
Quality Audits
Security & Due Diligence Audits
SGS Secured Document
SIX Swiss Exchange 1.5°C Climate Equity Flag Reviews
Social Audits
Solar Stewardship Initiative (SSI) Assessments
Sustainable Finance – External Reviewer Services
Systems and Organization Controls (SOC) Services
Worldly Platform and SGS Assurance Services – Data Validation
Trusted third-party inspection services
Our expert teams bring unparalleled global experience across a wide range of industries and sectors. By providing independent third-party evaluation services, we ensure that your projects, products, processes, and operations not only meet but exceed stringent market regulations and standards. This external verification process is key to maintaining trust and integrity in your business practices.
Discover our comprehensive solutions
Explore our wide array of customized solutions, each tailored to meet the specific demands of rigorous standards and protocols. Whether you need detailed quality control or specialized assessments, our services are designed to support your business’s commitment to excellence.