Improve Your Understanding of the amfori BSCI 13 Performance Areas

The amfori BSCI Code of Conduct provides a set of principles and values that amfori members and their business partners commit to implementing in their supply chains. In order to provide a detailed and solid basis for monitoring the principles and values of this Code of Conduct, amfori has drawn up auditing interpretation guidelines available in the System Manual Part IIl,

Each principle correspond to a Performance Area (PA). For the purpose of the amfori BSCI, auditors assess the auditee’s performance in these PAs through a number of questions as well as general comments and good practices when applicable. None of the performance areas can be assessed in isolation as they are all interlinked and have an impact on at least three others PA. 

There are 13 Performance Areas assessed via the amfori BSCI system :

·       Social Management & Workplace Relations (PA 1, PA 2, PA 3, PA 4)

• PA 1 : Social Management System & Cascade Effect
• PA 2 : Workers Involvement and Protection
• PA 3 : The Right of Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining
• PA 4 : No Discrimination, Violence or Harassment

·       Employee well-being and fair practices (PA5, PA6, PA 7)

• PA 5 : Fair Remuneration
• PA 6 : Decent Working Hours
• PA 7 : Occupational Health and Safety

·       Protection of Vulnerable Workers (PA 8, PA 9, PA 10, PA 11)

• PA 8 : No Child Labour
• PA 9 : Special Protection for young workers
• PA 10 : No Precarious Employment
• PA 11 : No Bonded, Forced Labour or Human Trafficking

·       Ethical Practices (PA 12, PA 13)

• PA 12 : Protection of the Environment
• PA 13 : Ethical Business Behaviour

This new eLearning will take you through a virtual business trip in China as an amfori member visiting a supplier manufacturing electronic components. Thanks to concrete examples and interactive comics strips, you will enroll in several interviews with social management team members.  

 To set the scene and to understand why you are taking part in these interviews, a specific scenario will be revealed at the beginning of the eLearning. You are part of a company that want to implement a due diligence strategy in its supply chain. Your company is a member of amfori. Your company has requested a social audit and received good results. You plan to visit your Chinese suppliers. Now, your virtual visit can start.

 This eLearning is available in English, German, French, Chinese and Vietnamese. It will take you approximately 2hour and a half to complete this training.

As an amfori member, you play an important role in the successful implementation the amfori BSCI Code of Conduct. Watch and Learn from this new training eLarning, to better understand the amfori BSCI 13 Performance Areas; to learn how the amfori BSCI guiding documents operate and how impactful these 13 PA are as regard of company practices.