BSCI
Item specifics
- Period
- 2024/7/26 - 2025/7/26
- No.
- 156-038097-000
- Certification bodies
- SGS
Certificate description
The Business Supply Chain Initiative (BSCI) is a tool established in 2003 that companies use to help make working conditions along their supply chain better. Its focus is on international conventions for workers’ rights, and businesses that take part in BSCI should enact a common code of conduct to help ensure these moral business practices.
BSCI was originally developed by the non-profit Amfori (previously known as the Foreign Trade Association) and has two tiers of membership: “Regular” companies that actively implement the BSCI process into their supply chain and “Associate” companies that support the effort but don’t implement BSCI. Businesses that do implement the process agree to follow these 11 principles:
The rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining
No discrimination
Fair remuneration
Decent working hours
Occupational health and safety
No child labor
Protection of young workers
No precarious employment
No bonded labor
Protection of the environment
Ethical business behavior
Participating in the BSCI process can lead to several benefits. First and foremost, it helps ensure workers are able to complete their tasks in humane and ethical conditions. Following an ethical code also helps gain customers’ trust and improve the business’s brand.
Breakdowns in efficiency and the ability to meet industry standards are often caused by unknown or nebulous requirements. The BSCI process itself outlines very clear expectations for best practices on social performance to ensure participating companies meet standards on a consistent and satisfactory basis.