The Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI) is a leading supply chain management system that supports companies to drive social compliance and improvements within the factories and farms in their global supply chains. BSCI implements the principle international labor standards protecting workers’ rights such as International Labor Organization (ILO) conventions and declarations, the United Nations (UN) Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and guidelines for multinational enterprises of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Why BSCI Exists?
In the context of globalization, retailers, importers, and brands source products from supplying companies around the world. Many of them are located in countries where national laws protecting workers are inadequate or poorly enforced. To address this, many companies and associations have created individual codes of conduct and their own implementation systems.
The proliferation of individual codes, diverse auditing procedures, and diverging implementation approaches have resulted in confusion and unnecessary duplication of efforts and costs for retailers, importers, and brands as well as their producers.
What BSCI Offer
BSCI works to tackle these challenges by offering one common Code of Conduct ja one single Implementation System that enable all companies sourcing all types of products from all geographies to collectively address the complex labor issues of their supply chain. To ease the implementation of the BSCI Code of Conduct, we develop – with the input of participating companies and stakeholders – a broad range of tools and activities to audit, train, share information, and influence key actors towards improving labor conditions in the supply chain of participating companies.
One single Code of Conduct
One single Implementation System
Various tools and activities to support companies and producers
For all retailers, importers and brand companies
For all types of products
For all sourcing countries
BSCI provides a guarantee for international customers that the factory is real.VIGA was established in 2008 and conducts BSCI tests every year.
BSCI certification features
1. One certification can meet different customers, reduce the second-party audit of suppliers by foreign customers, and save costs;
2. A greater degree of compliance with local regulations;
3. Establish international credibility and improve the corporate image;
4. Appropriate consumers establish positive emotions on products;
5. Stable cooperation with buyers and expand new markets
Benefits of BSCI certification for factories
1. Fulfill the customer’s request.
2. A certification for different customers-reduce the number of different buyers to conduct factory inspections at different times.
3. Enhance the image and status of the factory
4. Improve management system
5. Improve the relationship with employees
6. Increase productivity and thus profit
7. Minimize potential business risks such as work injury or death, legal proceedings, or lost orders.
8. Lay a solid foundation for long-term development
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