Corporate Social Responsibility|Workplaces

Focus on Workplaces: Fair, Safe and Non-Discriminatory Workplaces

What
As a global brand and a global citizen, we have a responsibility to ensure that our products are produced in workplaces that are fair, safe, and non-discriminatory.

How
Our Code of Conduct team includes 11 full-time Timberland employees, 2 part-time members and 2 contractors. This group covers 38 countries, 300+ factories and roughly 247,000 workers. All decisions, actions, choices, programme design, and strategy are aimed at ensuring an authentic programme with real and measurable impact.

Focus Area

Track relevant Supply Chain indicators that influence global human rights

Measure the average initial assessment score for new factories and set targets for improvement.
Measure the percent of production in "High Priority" factories and set targets for improvement.

Use the assessment process to highlight issues and prioritize factories in our value chain

Reduce "High Priority" factories to 20% of supply chain by 2015.
Reduce working hours violations to 30% of supply chain by 2010.

Through remediation, work with factory management to enact sustainable change by focusing on the root cause(s) of issues

Increase the percentage of continued business factories with an improved assessment score to 70% by 2015.
Increase the percentage of continued business factories with an improved health and safety score to 70% by 2010.

Create a sustainable living environment for our workers.

Develop a better understanding of life skills, child care, access to capital, health and nutrition, housing and transportation through the assessment process.

Verify our work in global human rights with third party organisations

Work with a third party to verify the performance of our assessors, the results of our factory assessments and analysis of needs in our factory communities.

Make it better™
Authenticity depends on credibility. Currently, our programme's effectiveness is self-evaluated and self-promoted. Our programme can be enhanced by a subjective and expert analysis of our assessors, our process, and our investments. As the company continues to amplify our values to consumers, we will generate additional scrutiny - from consumers and the media. As such, one must be ready with an authentic, beyond-monitoring, validated programme with proven ability to make a marked difference in the lives of workers.

		Corporate Social Responsibility Energy Products Workplaces Service Download CSR Report Environmental Stewardship Civic Engagement Global Human Rights Transparency & Accountability Global Warming	Corporate Social Responsibility\|Workplaces Focus on Workplaces: Fair, Safe and Non-Discriminatory Workplaces What As a global brand and a global citizen, we have a responsibility to ensure that our products are produced in workplaces that are fair, safe, and non-discriminatory. How Our Code of Conduct team includes 11 full-time Timberland employees, 2 part-time members and 2 contractors. This group covers 38 countries, 300+ factories and roughly 247,000 workers. All decisions, actions, choices, programme design, and strategy are aimed at ensuring an authentic programme with real and measurable impact. Focus Area Track relevant Supply Chain indicators that influence global human rights Measure the average initial assessment score for new factories and set targets for improvement. Measure the percent of production in "High Priority" factories and set targets for improvement. Use the assessment process to highlight issues and prioritize factories in our value chain Reduce "High Priority" factories to 20% of supply chain by 2015. Reduce working hours violations to 30% of supply chain by 2010. Through remediation, work with factory management to enact sustainable change by focusing on the root cause(s) of issues Increase the percentage of continued business factories with an improved assessment score to 70% by 2015. Increase the percentage of continued business factories with an improved health and safety score to 70% by 2010. Create a sustainable living environment for our workers. Develop a better understanding of life skills, child care, access to capital, health and nutrition, housing and transportation through the assessment process. Verify our work in global human rights with third party organisations Work with a third party to verify the performance of our assessors, the results of our factory assessments and analysis of needs in our factory communities. Make it better™ Authenticity depends on credibility. Currently, our programme's effectiveness is self-evaluated and self-promoted. Our programme can be enhanced by a subjective and expert analysis of our assessors, our process, and our investments. As the company continues to amplify our values to consumers, we will generate additional scrutiny - from consumers and the media. As such, one must be ready with an authentic, beyond-monitoring, validated programme with proven ability to make a marked difference in the lives of workers.