SUSTAINABILITY
OUR MANUFACTURING PARTNERS ARE COMPLIANT WITH INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS AND CODE OF CONDUCT AS BELOW
SOCIAL & SECURITY COMPLIANCE
GSV integrates multiple global supply chain security initiatives, including C-TPAT, PIP and AEO. Its mission is to partner with international suppliers and importers to drive the development of a global security verification process, resulting in increased safety assurance, risk control, efficiency and cost savings for all participants.
Sedex is the name of the organization – SMETA is the name of an audit methodology. The Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (Sedex) is a not-for-profit, membership organization that leads work with buyers and suppliers to deliver improvements in responsible and ethical business practices in global supply chains. Sedex was founded in 2001 by a group of UK retailers to drive convergence in social audit standards and monitoring practices.
The WRAP is the worldwide accepted factory-based certification programme for manufacturers of clothing, footwear and other sewn products. The WRAP programme certifies facilities for compliance with the 12 WRAP Principles which assure safe, legal and ethical manufacturing processes.
ENVIRONMENT COMPLIANCE / INITIATIVES
Our Mission is to enable brands and retailers in the textile, apparel, and footwear industries to implement sustainable chemical management best practice across the value chain through collaborative engagement, standard setting, and implementation.
The Higg FEM provides facilities a clear picture of their environmental impacts. It helps them identify and prioritize opportunities for performance improvements.
TECHNICAL COMPLIANCE
The Organic Content Standard (OCS) applies to any non-food product containing 95-100 percent organic material. It verifies the presence and amount of organic material in a final product and tracks the flow of the raw material from its source to the final product.
The GRS is an international, voluntary, full product standard that sets requirements for third-party certification of recycled content, chain of custody, social and environmental practices and chemical restrictions.
The RCS is used as a chain of custody standard to track recycled raw materials through the supply chain.
GOTS ensures the organic status of textiles from the harvesting of the raw materials through environmentally and socially responsible manufacturing all the way to labelling, in order to provide credible assurances to the consumer.
BCI is a not-for-profit organization that exists to make global cotton production better for the people who produce it, better for the environment it grows in and better for the sector’s future.
The EUROPEAN FLAX® label certifies traceability at every step of processing – from flax seed right through to the finished duvet cover. Certified European Flax® fibre is produced exclusively in France, Belgium, or the Netherlands.
BUILDING, ELECTRICAL & FIRE SAFETY
Alliance improve workers’ safety in the RMG industry by upgrading factories’ fire, electrical & building safety, educating workers and management, empowering workers that can enforce and maintain safe working conditions throughout Bangladesh.
The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh helps ensure that no worker needs to fear fire, building collapses or other accidents by conducting fire, electrical and structural safety inspections, support and monitor remediation.