One year ago, we shared early successes from TenSquared projects at four technology suppliers to Dell Technologies and Cisco as they worked to increase communication about health and safety in the workplace, strengthen management-level Continue Reading...
Health & Safety
Call for Participants: New Blockchain Platform Enabling Garment Manufacturers to Showcase Production Capacity and Labor Performance
SAI is now welcoming garment manufacturers in Bangladesh and India to pilot an innovative blockchain based platform to improve production planning and advertise capacity, quality, and labor compliance to brands. Social Accountability Continue Reading...
ABVTEX
Since July 2018 the Brazilian Textile Retail Association (ABVTEX), has partnered with SAAS to bring international oversight credibility to the ABVTEX Audits Program. This program advances social and labor standards for the fashion Continue Reading...
Production Capacity Calculator and Buyer-Supplier Platform aim to raise supplier capacity and improve production planning
SAI, along with technology partner Vertru, is developing a digital platform that will connect buyers and suppliers with the goal of improving labor practices and working conditions along the apparel supply chain in India and Bangladesh. The Continue Reading...
Two new USDOL-funded projects to address racial disparities and improve working conditions in Latin America
SAI is the sub-recipient of two new US Department of Labor grants helping to develop projects to improve working conditions in Latin America, in partnership with grant recipient Partners of the America (PoA). Both projects began in 2021 and Continue Reading...
iWrc Brasil empowers worker-led recycling cooperatives, spurring new iWrc projects in Colombia, Vietnam
The Inclusive Waste Recycling Program (iWrc) program continued its successful work with waste picking cooperatives in Brazil and expanded into Colombia and Vietnam earlier this year. iWrc Brasil has successfully conducted 25 Social Continue Reading...
