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GeSI Guidelines
The standards within these guidelines are to help promote safe and fair working conditions as
well as responsible, social, environmental and ethics management by promoting sustainability
standards across all GeSI Member’s supply chain.
Companies are encouraged to implement the requirements contained in these guidelines and
go further in implementing key performance indicators (KPI’s) to measure conformance.
Companies are also encouraged to take all reasonable measures to promote and secure
compliance of these guidelines with their suppliers, sub-contractors, and employees.
Companies applying the guidelines are expected to comply with all relevant laws, regulations
and standards in all of the countries in which they operate and to go beyond compliance to
applicable laws, drawing upon internationally recognized standards, taking responsibility to
continually improve social and environmental conditions and ethical behavior.
Management Systems
Companies and Suppliers should create and maintain a management system and a set of
documents and records to ensure regulatory compliance and conformity.
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1. Improvement Objective
Establish performance objectives, targets and implementation plans to continuously
improve social and environmental performance.
Measurements of these objectives are used to monitor compliance to requirements.
Suppliers are encouraged to use a Plan-Do-Check-Act type of approach for improvements.
2. Communication
Policies that follow the local law, regulatory compliance requirements, public and industry
association guidelines or internally prepared guidelines should be clearly communicated to
employees.
3. Training
Managers and employees should be trained to comply with Supplier’s and Company’s
policies, procedures, and improvement objectives to meet applicable legal and regulatory
requirements.
4. Risk Assessment, Risk Management and Self-Audit
Identified risks stemming from labor, health and safety, environmental and ethics practices
require immediate assessment and corrective action implementation. Such assessment
could include audits to ensure conformity to legal and regulatory requirements.
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References
1. JAC Supply Chain Sustainability Guidelines document - Version: 01_20140116
http://gesi.org/article/48
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