Switzerland's OEKO-TEX launches Responsible Business tool

Submitted by admin on 21 November 2022

Source: www.fibre2fashion.com

Starting from November 2022, the OEKO-TEX Responsible Business tool and certification will support brands, retailers and traders in the textile and leather industry with due diligence compliance. Due diligence will require companies to take legal responsibility for all human rights and environmental violations in their global supply chains.

Facing the multiple interests of worldwide stakeholders - employees, consumers, investors, media, and politics - with different points of view, companies must protect and communicate with all of them. OEKO-TEX Responsible Business will allow companies to choose between a self-assessment of their due diligence status or achieve third-party certification validated by an OEKO-TEX institute. OEKO-TEX Responsible Business is based on a wide range of international policies with additional focus on climate protection.

With the new tool and certification, OEKO-TEX aims to prevent and mitigate existing and potential negative impacts of companies’ own business operations, their supply chains and in their wider business relationships. “An expansion of our portfolio in this direction was important to us. OEKO-TEX has stood for product safety for more than three decades and continuously advocated transparent supply chains and corporate responsibility,” said OEKO-TEX secretary general, Georg Dieners. “In terms of due diligence, a holistic analysis and evaluation is key.

The certificate, valid for 3 years, includes annual compliance audits and can subsequently be extended.

 

Switzerland's OEKO-TEX launches Responsible Business tool