LAYER 3 · Management systems & specialist topics
OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct
The OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct sets out a 6-step process to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for adverse impacts on people, the environment and society in operations and supply chains. It underpins many buyer and export-market supply-chain due diligence requirements.
Criteria used by FTS Impact Lab
In the Assess tool you can check your initiative against each criterion below (met, partly met, not met, not applicable).
- Step 1: embed responsible conduct in policies and management systems
- Step 2: identify and assess actual and potential adverse impacts
- Step 3: cease, prevent or mitigate impacts
- Step 4: track implementation and results
- Step 5: communicate how impacts are addressed
- Step 6: provide for or cooperate in remediation when appropriate
Example indicators to track
- % high-risk suppliers with improvement plans
- On-site supply-chain assessments
- Cases remediated
FTS Impact Lab refers to this framework for analysis and advice. Results are not a certification or an official conformity assessment.