As the society evolves, there is growing awareness about social evils like child labour and poverty. Modern society wants better treatment of fellow human beings, especially children and other vulnerable segments of the society. Business organisations all over the world (especially from the developed nations) are also realising their corporate social responsibility in eradication of child labour, forced labour, discrimination, poverty, etc.

Many large organizations such as TESCO, WalMart, etc. have decided to clean-up their supply chain by asking their suppliers (especially those from developing nations and third world countries) to demonstrate their corporate social responsibility. They prefer to do business with SA8000:2008 certified suppliers.

What is SA8000:2008 ? It is an international standard on Social Accountability, published by the Social Accountability International (SAI) which is a non-governmental, international, multi-stakeholder organisation dedicated to improving workplaces and communities by developing and implementing socially responsible standards. Its headquarters is situated in New York, USA.

Both manufacturing companies and service organisations can implement SA8000:2008 and get certified.

If you plan to implement SA8000:2008 in any organization, you need to develop SA8000:2008 compliant SA procedures and forms.

Reading text books on SA8000:2008 may not result in initiation and efficient & time-bound execution of an SA8000:2008 certification project.

What you need is a worked-out example of SA8000:2008 documentation (Policy and procedures manual, data forms etc.), and down-to-earth guidance for practical implementation of SA8000:2008 Social Accountability Management System. Our kit fully meets these requirements.

This kit has been developed by GQV Consulting (a division of Sirwill Software), one of the most renowned management system consulting companies in India. The manual and forms included in the kit conform to the requirements of SA8000:2008 standard.

You can modify our sample documents with minimal effort and develop SA8000:2008 documents for your organisation (70% of original content can be used as it is, only 30% needs to be changed by putting in your company-specific and country-specific text).

Note: As SA8000:2008 requires you to comply with the legal requirements related to health & safety, working hours, payment of wages and other employee benefits, you need to find out the exact requirements applicable to your country and region before starting the document modification job. These information are usually available on the website of your local Government (Labour Department sub-domain). As the labour laws of most countries are based on ILO and UN conventions, you would find the legal requirements mentioned in our manual (which refers to the labour laws and rules applicable to the state of West Bengal in India for illustration) very similar to those applicable to your location.

Management consultants who plan to start SA8000:2008 consultancy would also find this kit useful.

1. A nine page PDF document that provides step-by-step guidance for implementation and certification of SA8000:2008 Social Accountability Management System.
2. A consolidated Sample Manual (Social Accountability Policy and Procedures Manual) that addresses all requirements of SA8000:2008 standard. You can use the standardised SA system procedures given in the manual with minimal modifications to suit your company's operations.
3. Document customization guidelines (in PDF) for easy understanding of the contents and faster customization as per your organization's specific requirements. If you are already certified to ISO9001:2008, the customization guidelines also gives hints on how to merge SA8000:2008 and ISO9001:2008 documents
4. A set of 30 standard forms (blank) that can be used with very minimal changes, and
5. An exhaustive SA8000:2008 Audit Checklist that could help you tremendously in system implementation and internal audits.

Note:

This kit is suitable for both manufacturing and service organizations. Documents are written in simple English, in Word 7.0 / Excel 8.0 format, which can be edited using MS-Office '97 or later versions.

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