Compliance consultancy

compliance services

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  The Business Social Compliance Initiative is a leading business-driven initiative for companies committed to improving working conditions in their global supply chain. Target constituents of BSCI are producers and exporters who are based in risk countries and supply their products to at least one BSCI participant. Small-scale producers and producers groups, Small and medium-sized enterprises, Large-scale enterprises, vulnerable and minority groups, Internal-suppliers/facilities are the applicants for BSCI

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  The Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production (WRAP) program is the world’s largest facility certification program for labour-intensive sectors including the apparel, footwear, home textiles, fashion accessories, leather, cashmere, feather and down, silk, printing, hotels, jewellery, furniture, construction materials, food processing, glassware, home accessories, and more.
  WRAP has adopted a management systems approach toward compliance which requires that senior management adopt the WRAP principles in writing, and assign the necessary staff to ensure the required practices are implemented throughout the facility, and that an internal audit system is in place to ensure continuous compliance. Facilities must undergo a rigorous self-assessment and then be audited by an independent third-party monitoring company.

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  Sedex is an online database that enables suppliers to share information with their customers on their responsible trading practices (health and safety, labour standards, the environment, business ethics). Sedex is the largest collaborative platform in the world for managing ethical supply chain data. Using Sedex, you can share your information (questionnaire, ethical audits, certificates) with multiple customers. This should reduce the number of audits you are asked to complete.

  
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  Ethical trade became a growing issue during the 1990s because companies with global supply chains – in particular those in the clothing ,Handicrafts, sand food sectors – were coming under increasing pressure to ensure decent working conditions for the people who produce the goods they sell. A number of NGO and trade union campaigns raised consumers’ awareness of poor working conditions in factories and farms in developing countries – factories and farms that produced goods for leading companies in Europe and North America.
  As a result, a growing number of companies have decided that they can no longer turn a blind eye, and have adopted some form of ethical sourcing policy to address growing public concern over supply chain labour issues. Pressure on companies has been maintained as NGOs and trade union organisations, both large and small, and both in developing as well as developed countries, have continued to campaign on these issues. Moreover, corporate investment companies are increasingly screening their investments according to a range of social and environmental criteria, including a company’s efforts in addressing supply chain labour conditions. Together, these trends are making it more and more difficult for companies to ignore ethical sourcing issues.

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  SA8000, the global humane workplace standard developed by Social Accountability International, provides retail and brand companies with a tool – the SA8000 Signatory program - to demonstrate a real and credible commitment to achieving decent working conditions in their supply chains. To become a Signatory, a company must define the scope of its operations that it intends to bring into compliance with SA8000, develop a plan and management system for achieving this goal, and publicity issue an annual progress report subject to verification by SAI before publication. Signatory benefits include the right to use the SA8000 Signatory logo and description to communicate with stakeholders (e.g., in advertising, public relations, promotions, on-shelf signage, hang-tags etc.), technical assistance in implementing SA8000 from SAI staff and other Signatories, and access to relevant research and templates for communications, Planning and Systems.

  • Consumers and other stakeholders have become increasingly concerned about whether products have been manufactured under conditions of violation of human rights, child labor and discrimination – as often reported by the media.
  • The existing management of many companies cannot adequately cope with the myriad demands imposed by labour laws, codes of conduct of individual companies, as well as their stakeholders.
  • A greater challenge is to effectively monitor whether the manufacturers and suppliers have implemented
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  To ensure Quality it is necessary to make systematic controls at every stage & also to take critical review of efforts and achievements of the company with respect to Quality of the product. Every employee's involvement is utmost important in understanding the problems, finding solutions & implementing them. All these actions would lead to maintain and improve quality and reliability of product. Poor assurance quality system results in production of products or services that are poor in quality and reliability. Hence company's standardization is now an important effective management tool for improving quality and productivity. Quality & standardization are the two essential prerequisites for a company to market its product and services in the competitive business environment. As the standards move from one level to the higher they should meet increasingly diversified and enlarged set to needs: hence the national & international standards are broader based.

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  Health and safety is one of the most important aspects of an organization’s smooth and effective functioning. Good health and safety performance ensures an accident free industrial environment. With continuous effort of various legislative bodies and NGOs the awareness of OH&S has improved in India considerably. This demands adoption of a structured approach for the identification of hazards, their evaluation and control of risks. This intends to assist an organization to develop a systematic approach to management of OH & S in such a way as to protect their employees and others whose health and safety may be affected by the organization’s activities. The OH & S management system can be very well integrated with management of other aspects of the organization.

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  • Serves as a tool to improve environmental performance
  • Provides a systematic way of managing an organization’s environmental affairs
  • Is the aspect of the organization’s overall management structure that addresses immediate and long-term impacts of its products, services and processes on the environment
  • Gives order and consistency for organizations to address environmental concerns through the allocation of resources, assignment of responsibility and ongoing evaluation of practices, procedures and processes
  • Focuses on continual improvement of the system
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  By affixing the CE marking, the manufacturer, or in certain cases another legal person responsible for the product, asserts that the item meets all the essential "Health and Safety" requirements of the relevant European Directive(s) that provide for the CE marking. The CE marking is an acronym for the French "Conformité Européenne".