Social sustainability is both complex and urgent, and includes aspects such as health and safety, living wages, worker representation and working hours. These articles help you understand the challenges, why collaborative efforts are essential to protect workers’ rights, and how social and circular sustainability are connected.
Stephen Fuller and Niclas Rydell explain the importance of building a structured system for continuous improvements, where independent verification, follow-up, incentives and accountability play important parts.
Independent verification, follow-up, clear consequences and dialog with brand owners are some of the tools that ensure that positive and long-lasting change happens.
Our annual assessment process 2019-2021 show that IT product brand owners see the value of being transparent with us as it helps them make faster progress in complex supply chain sustainability issues.
Social responsibility is a continuing challenge throughout the IT supply chain. From raw materials extraction to final assembly, working hours, health and safety and forced labor are industry-wide issues.
An incentive system in TCO Certified helps accelerate social progress. Factories that make improvements get a business advantage, while factories with persisting issues may lose their right to manufacture certified products.
Child labor, forced labor, and excessive overtime are risks to workers’ health and lives. TCO Certified includes a structured system for improvements, along with strict monitoring to ensure problems are solved.
Circular solutions help us tackle many of today’s sustainability issues, such as climate change and the depletion of natural resources. By also including social issues, change can happen faster.
TCO Certified holds the IT industry accountable for working conditions in the supply chains of certified products. It also helps stakeholders join together to increase leverage and drive faster progress.
A code of conduct and independent factory audits can help improve factory conditions. However, systematic, independent verification that holds the industry accountable is needed to create lasting change.
Imagine that your workplace exposed you to carcinogenic chemicals or emergency exits are locked, and you fear being trapped in a fire. This is the reality for many people working in the IT industry today.
In this webinar, we focus on socially responsible manufacturing, discuss findings from our latest annual review process, and hear from one of the independent social verifiers interviewing brand owners.
Learn about sustainability issues connected to data center products. Get practical tips on how to drive the availability of servers, data storage products and network equipment that are responsibly made.
