SA8000 social responsibility system certification requirements

1. may not use or support the use of child labor;
2. Do not use or support the use of forced labor, nor require employees to pay a "deposit" at the beginning or registered by Gu identity;
3. All staff shall respect the freedom of association and collective bargaining;
4. The anti-discrimination principle;
5. Do not engage in or support of corporal punishment, mental or physical coercion and verbal abuse;
6. Working time to strictly comply with local legal requirements;
7. The enterprise shall not be paid to staff wages low legal or industry minimum standards;
8. should have to avoid all kinds of industrial and knowledge of specific risks, provide a safe and healthy working environment for their employees, to take adequate measures to reduce risk factors at work, try to prevent the occurrence of accidental injury or health, to provide safety and health for all employees living environment, including clean bathrooms, clean and safe hostel, hygienic food storage equipment;
9. The senior management should be developed according to the standard open and transparent at all levels can understand and implement company policies consistent with social responsibility and labor conditions;
10. Employees resign a month to write a written application in advance
Enterprises to apply for SA8000 certification prerequisites What?
1, proof of your company in line with national and local laws and regulations; self-test control provisions of the Company; within a year into the application process.
2, once the demonstration and assessment mechanism to accept your application, you become SA8000 applicants.
3. When you are fully prepared to do after SA8000, may proceed to arrange a pre-assessment to predict, for to take corrective action, will give you plenty of time to improve human resources, safety and management measures according to the SA8000 standard.
4, if necessary, may be extended to two years the applicant state.
5, ready to enter the forecast after the adoption of the Assessment.
6, a special training by the local assessment team will come to your facility. They understand the local legal, social, and your management and workers speak the same language. You have to provide a comprehensive history of the plant, the assessment team can talk freely with an employee, if certain aspects of plant operations need to be improved, will give you the opportunity to remedy the situation.
7, Panel sure you plant in full compliance with standards issued after the certificate is valid for three years, once every six months later. Every three years for an extended once.
SA8000 Certification Benefits
Company Implementation of SA8000, SA8000 certification by the company had a lot of strategic interests. For retailers, the company developed if the supplier code of social responsibility, the need to establish internal oversight system requires a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, and direct use of SA8000 will greatly reduce monitoring costs while improving supply chain management. The results show that a good supply chain management can significantly reduce procurement costs, avoid purchasing risks, to establish a good relationship of trust. On the other hand, the implementation of SA8000 will greatly improve public and consumer confidence in the production process of labor standards. The larger the company, the higher the visibility, people pay more attention to its social responsibility performance. Continuous improvement SA8000 standard, periodic surveillance audits and third-party certification system could improve the company's reputation and improve the company's image.
For suppliers in the international trade environment, labor standards are becoming increasingly important, SA8000 standard is the company a competitive advantage to attract customers and an opportunity to enter new markets, at the same time, it is the company and its managers a peaceful business environment. Implementation of SA8000 can greatly reduce the cost of managing different labor standards and social requirements, because SA8000 standard can be replaced by other similar standards and codes. SA8000 standard allows companies in the labor market in a good position, a clear commitment to social and ethical standards of talents more attractive, which is one of the key factors in the future success of the company. The company's commitment to employee benefits will increase employee loyalty and sense of belonging, so that can not only increase productivity, but also help improve customer relations, maintaining customer loyalty. A well-known US sports shoe company NEWBALANCE report that they through the implementation of SA8000 standards, reduction in working hours in China's contract factories, productivity increased by 25%.
And the rapid spread of media sensationalism, the business community requires flexibility and greater transparency greater. Due to a place or a supplier problems could have serious impact on the entire company, and the whole region, the whole industry, even the best social performance of the company, the public also needs to confirm its commitment to social responsibility.
In the current era of such a media controlled by the company's public image has become a key factor in the company just is not enough to comply with ethical standards, companies also need to demonstrate to the public to "take the right way to do the right thing." SA8000 standard as a tool that can fill the gap and commercial activities between the values of Western society, on the job site by an independent audit, SA8000 certification can help companies demonstrate their social responsibility and commitment to performance. Some damaged the image of the industry, such as toys and clothing, often used to promote SA8000 certification of its good corporate image and product reputation. For good corporate social responsibility performance, SA8000 certification allows them to reach the standard with no competitor to draw a line. It is foreseeable that sweatshop or child labor because of bad behavior will implement SA8000 standard gradually reduced.