Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment Certification

ISO 14001 certification is aligned with environmental protection and applicable to all businesses. It demonstrates control of an organization’s environmental management system and promotes corporate environmental responsibility.

Benefits of ISO 14001 certification:

• helps reduce negative impacts on the environment
• saves costs on fees and fines
• aids compliance with legal requirements related to the environment
• helps maintain and improve your market position
• increases your customers’ trust in you as a safe supplier of products and services

The OHSAS 45001 standard deals with occupational health and safety. It is applicable to all businesses.

Certification to OHSAS 45001 results in optimal performance of an organisation’s health and safety system by addressing issues such as injury prevention and defining clear employee responsibilities.

Benefits of OHSAS 45001 : 2018 certification:

• improves the management of occupational health and safety
• assists with compliance with all legal requirements
• increased health protection of employees
• helps prevent accidents and random events
• reduces costs associated with injuries
• creates a responsible corporate status

Quality Management System Certification (International Organization for Standardization) ISO 9001:2015 Standard has been developed on a simple process based structure, which is generic in nature and adopt the process management approach .The structure of ISO 9001:2015 is based on a PLAN-DO-CHECK-ACT improvement cycle and eight management principles; providing a framework to guide organizations towards continual improvement and achievement of customer satisfaction.

The major clauses in the standard are :

• Quality Management System
• Leadership
• Planning
• Support
• Operation
• Performance Evaluation
•  Improvement

The standard is designed to look at the important process affecting customer satisfaction, from the initial review of requirements related to product, to the packaging and delivery of the finished product. The intent of standard is to provide the universal baseline for Quality Management, which can be used by companies around the world.

The success of this idea is evident from the fact that ISO9001 series that become the most widely used quality management system in the world.

Benefits of ISO 9001: 2015 :

• Provide a Systematic, visible way to lead and operate an organization that continually improves performances. provides an organization wide, consistent and comprehensive approach and clarifies roles and responsilities and linkages to all interested parties. Involves top management in the improvement of the quality management system.
• Provides better understanding of the relationship between cost and benefits Structures the operations of the organization to achieve desired results. Ensures sustained customer satisfaction by producing, delivering services and providing support function that meet customers need and expectations.
• Provides controlled methods for measurements and monitoring of process and products. Provides for factual decision making. Increases the effectiveness and efficiency of the organization.

SA 8000 measures social performance in eight areas important to social accountability in workplaces, anchored by a management system element that drives continuous improvement in all areas of the Standard. It is appreciated by brands and industry leaders for its rigorous approach to ensuring the highest quality of social compliance in their supply chains, all the while without sacrificing business interests.

Elements of the SA8000 Standard:

• Child Labor
• Forced or Compulsory Labor
• Health and Safety
• Freedom of Association and Right to Collective Bargaining
• Discrimination
• Disciplinary Practices
• Working Hours
• Remuneration
• Management System

Benefits : provides ongoing and reliable assurance that an organization is upholding social performance expectations, while also continuously improving their management systems to address and prevent social and labor risks.

Sedex is a membership organization that provides one of the world’s leading online platforms for companies to manage and improve working conditions in global supply chains. Sedex provide practical tools, services and a community network to help companies improve their responsible and sustainable business practices, and source responsibly.

Why Join Sedex?

• Trading in a globalised economy is a complex business. With the opportunity to make new partnerships and unlock fresh markets come challenges around accountability.
• How can you be sure ySedexvalue chain is treating its workforce fairly?
• How can you be clear about the impact of new legislation on ySedexoperations?
• How can you reduce risk in a fast-changing, interconnected business environment?
• Whether you are a global retail brand or manufacturer, an international agent, or a single production site, Sedex can help you simplify the business of responsible trade.
• When you join Sedex, you don’t just access Sedexservices. You join a global community of leaders in responsible sourcing.
• Sedex services enable Sedex members to save time and money managing their data around ethical performance, and to get the insight that can support their continuous improvement. The approachable, multi-lingual Sedex Helpdesk is open to all members, along with published guidance, online learning and updates on best practice.

Managing multi-tier data more simply

By using Sedex products and services Sedex members can manage their multi-tier, responsible sourcing data simply and efficiently. They can take advantage of standardised formats and reports and collaborate by sharing common information.

Providing cost-effective solutions

Sedex is ‘owned’ by its members, so it is completely focused on providing the responsible sourcing data, technology solutions, products and services Sedex members need. Sedex scale and expertise also help us bring together members and stakeholders to drive convergence between different industry standards and methodologies.

Driving continuous improvement

We understand supply chain management as a continuous, collaborative process of improvement. Sedex audit methodology helps businesses identify opportunities for improvement and work with their suppliers to make changes. They also reduce duplication and ‘audit fatigue’ by allowing suppliers to share one set of data with multiple customers.

Take control with Sedex Advance

Sedex Advance is the largest collaborative platform in the world which allows you to capture, analyse, manage and present risk information in Sedex supply chain, for Sedex industry. Increase Sedex social, environmental and ethical sustainability, to enhance and protect Sedex corporate reputation, globally.

For buyers, we make it simpler to understand how supply chains are performing, and to identify and act on opportunities for improvement.

For suppliers, we make it easy to share information with multiple buyers in an agreed format. This frees up time spent on unnecessary duplication.

Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production (WRAP) is a non-profit dedicated to promoting safe, lawful, humane, and ethical manufacturing around the world through certification and education. The WRAP certification program mainly focuses on the apparel, footwear, and sewn products sectors. WRAP 12 Principles are based on generally accepted international workplace standards, local laws and workplace regulations which encompass human resources management, health and safety, environmental practices, and legal compliance including import/export and customs compliance and security standards: Compliance with Laws and Workplace Regulations Prohibition of Forced Labor Prohibition of Child Labor Prohibition of Harassment or Abuse Compensation and Benefits Hours of Work Prohibition of Discrimination Health and Safety Freedom of Association & Collective Bargaining Environment Customs Compliance Security Certification Process;

• Application;A production facility submits basic information to WRAP and pays a registration fee 
• Self-Assessment; Facilities complete a self-assessment of their facility to show that they have been utilizing socially-compliant practices for a minimum of 90 days (for new facilities; facilities seeking re-certification are expected to have been compliant throughout their preceding certification period).
• Monitoring; After submitting their self-assessment, the facility selects a WRAP-accredited monitoring organization to audit the facility against WRAP's 12 Principles. The audit must be successfully passed within 6 months of paying the registration fee to avoid having to re-register.
• Evaluation; WRAP will review the monitor's audit report and decide whether or not to certify the facility. If WRAP decides not to issue a certification, the facility will be notified of the corrections that need to be made and the monitoring firm will conduct an additional inspection. 
• Certification awarded PLATINUM (Valid for 2 Y), GOLD (Valid for 1 Y),SILVER (Valid For 6M)