Supply chain management
Within the Area of Occupational Safety and Health
Introduction
Supply Chain Management means providing guidance and training for suppliers in order to improve their social performance. This will be done through Process Optimizing Consultancies in the relevant companies, resulting in Occupational Safety and Health Recommendations. Supply Chain Management aims at achieving compliance with social standards and at making an impact at the workplace, including the workplaces of suppliers.
Process optimizations teams comprise labour inspectors and occupational health and safety experts from a multi-national enterprise, who inspect the suppliers' facilities and consult with workers' representatives on how to improve working conditions. Implementation of the recommendations given during the visit will often show that both productivity and occupational health and safety performance can be increased with only small efforts.
The win-win-win factor
- Labour inspectors participating in the enterprise visits learn a new approach to prevention. They are being trained on the job during the visits, which enables them to provide more competent advice during inspections.
- Concurrently, the suppliers benefit from higher economic productivity through process optimization and reduced rates of accidents and absenteeism.
- The workers enjoy a safer and healthier working environment.
As OSH standards of multinational enterprises can go beyond national requirements, the approach led to a tripartite win-win-win situation. As decided by the tripartite project steering committee, other small and medium sized enterprises and the workers employed therein should also be able to benefit from the project outcomes.
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