Supplier screening
Supplier risk screening software for forced labour
Score every supplier, site and labour provider on the conditions that actually drive forced labour risk, check each name against live official lists, and see exactly which factors moved the number — then pair it with signals from the people closest to the work.
What a screening score should tell you
A number on its own is not useful to a compliance team: it cannot be defended in a supplier conversation or explained to an auditor. A screening score should say which structural conditions drove it, which public source each condition came from, and what has changed since the last check.
- Named factors behind every score, not an opaque rating
- Dated history, so movement over time is visible
- Public sources cited for each component
- A published weighting on the methodology page
The six components Libera scores
Each supplier, site or labour provider is scored on country prevalence and government response, sector intensity, workforce size, use of recruitment intermediaries, and live official-list screening carried out at the moment of the check.
- Country prevalence and government response — Walk Free GSI 2023, a static 2023 edition
- Sector intensity — informed by ILO estimates and US DOL TVPRA listings
- Workforce size — larger, lower-visibility workforces raise exposure
- Recruitment intermediaries — a distinct, separately named factor
- OFAC sanctions and DHS UFLPA Entity List — fetched live at check time
Live list screening, not a stale copy
Sanctions and import-ban lists change. Libera fetches OFAC data and the DHS UFLPA Entity List when a supplier is screened rather than shipping a bundled snapshot, normalises names and flags likely matches with the reason attached to the saved score. A match is always a signal to verify against the official source, never a determination.
Screening across tiers, sites and labour providers
Risk rarely sits on the invoice. Suppliers, individual sites and third-party labour agencies are modelled as separate nodes, so an upstream node or a staffing intermediary carries its own score instead of disappearing behind a compliant tier-one vendor. Bulk import brings an existing supplier list in and screens every name at once.
Where screening stops and listening starts
Structural data predicts where risk is likely; it cannot tell you what happened at one site last month. That is why every screened site can carry a confidential worker reporting channel, and why accumulated worker signals raise a supplier's status and route it into human review.
Honest limits
A high score does not mean forced labour is present, and a low score does not mean a site is safe — particularly where worker access to the reporting channel has never been verified. Screening narrows where to look. People decide what it means.
How Libera maps to the workflow
From a screening score to a documented human decision.
01
Screen suppliers
Every supplier, site and labour provider is scored on country prevalence, government response, sector intensity, workforce size and use of recruitment intermediaries, then checked against official sanctions and import-ban lists at the time of the check.
02
Open and verify worker access
A QR poster at agreed access points opens a confidential reporting page in the worker's own language. Access can be verified through announced or unannounced checks by the buyer or an independent auditor, and the result is recorded per site.
03
Receive confidential signals
Workers report without a name, phone number, account or precise location. Management never reads an individual account; only aggregate indicator counts reach the console.
04
Detect patterns
Signals are clustered by site, supplier and ILO indicator, so a repeated pattern becomes visible even when each report on its own looks minor.
05
Human review
When signals accumulate, the supplier's risk status is raised and flagged for human review. Libera never concludes that forced labour occurred — a person decides what happens next.
06
Case and remediation
A case file records the investigation timeline, evidence register, remediation actions with owners and due dates, and the documented outcome.
07
Monitor and document
Re-screening, access re-verification and an immutable activity log produce an exportable record of what was found, what was decided and what was done.
What this page is not
Risk indicators describe structural conditions and list matches. They are not findings about a company, do not establish that forced labour occurred, and are not a substitute for investigation or human judgement. Country prevalence data comes from the Global Slavery Index 2023 and is a static edition until Walk Free publishes a new one.
Libera produces risk indicators for review. It does not determine that any company or person has committed an offence, does not guarantee compliance with any law, and is not legal advice. Every escalation requires human review.
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See the risk before it becomes the story.
Screen suppliers, open a confidential worker channel, verify access, investigate patterns and document remediation in one workflow.