EDGE Certification |Global Standard For Workplace Diversity, Fairness, and Inclusion

With EDGE Certification from Intertek, your organization can benchmark progress, close equity gaps, and demonstrate accountability to employees, investors, and stakeholders.

What is EDGE Certification?

EDGE is the leading global standard for Diversity, Fairness, and Inclusion, centred on a workplace gender and intersectional equity approach.

EDGE stands for Equity, Diversity and Gender Equality and is distinguished by its rigour and focus on business impact. The methodology uses a business, rather than theoretical, approach that incorporates benchmarking, metrics and accountability into the process.

The EDGE Assessment Methodology was developed by the EDGE Certified Foundation and launched at the World Economic Forum in 2011. The EDGE Standards and Certification have been designed to help companies not only create an optimal workplace for women and men across their diverse identities, but also to benefit from it. EDGE Certification has received the endorsement of business, government and academic leaders from around the world.

What are the benefits of EDGE Certification for my organization?

Use the latest tech, data, insights, and knowledge to make change and become a higher performing organization
Tell employees and the world that you hold yourself accountable to the highest standards in workplace diversity, fairness, and inclusion
Build confidence with all stakeholders through integrity and credibility of workplace diversity, fairness, and inclusion data and information

What areas does the EDGE standard assess?

EDGE assesses policies, practices and numbers across 5 different areas of analysis:

Equal pay for equivalent work
Recruitment & promotion
Leadership development training & mentoring
Flexible working
Company culture

By using the EDGE Assessment Methodology a clear picture emerges of a company’s commitment as measured in terms of representation at all levels of the organization, pay equity, effectiveness of policies and practices to ensure equitable career flows and inclusiveness of the culture.

How can Intertek help with EDGE Certification?

Intertek is the first Certification Body fully approved to certify companies against the EDGE and EDGEplus Standards and we can work with your company to succeed in closing the Corporate Gender Gap.

EDGE Certification enables your organization to benchmark progress, close equity gaps, and demonstrate accountability to employees, investors, and stakeholders. As the global standard for workplace gender and intersectional equity, EDGE helps you build a fairer, more inclusive culture backed by data and international best practices.