OSA Internacional | On-board Social Accountability International

On-Board Social Accountability (OSA) International Ltd is a new not-for-profit enterprise (established April 2020) to address the abuse of workers on board fishing vessels and in aquaculture operations by enabling seafood companies to develop and implement effective social accountability management systems. OSA is a benchmark tool and management system that has been developed and tested since 2014 in different contexts internationally and on different vessel types including tuna purse seiners, carriers and multi-gear vessels (trawlers and long-liners). These provide different levels of worker and working conditions on board. We are an enterprise formed in 2020 by: Independent Directors whom all have substantial (150 years combined) sustainable seafood and fishery operations expertise, across over 60 countries. Our personnel have specialist technical expertise in: seafood operation auditing, social condition assessment, fishery assessment, market, operations, stakeholder engagement, policy and procedure development, chain of custody auditing, sustainability, marine conservation, and environmental management, and; financial and economic analysis including well-being based models for social and environmental return on investment (i.e. full Environment, Social Governance)