All workers are entitled to work in environments where risks to their health and safety are properly controlled. Under health and safety law, the primary responsibility for this is down to employers.
ETHICAL STATEMENT
Custom kit believes that business should be conducted with full respect for people and the environment. We adopt a rigorous selection process for Garment manufacturers, only those who are fully committed become an employer that transcends our high ethical standards. We have never purchased from a supplier we have not visited and personally approved.
We don’t own our factory and choose to create stronger jobs instead relationships with carefully selected suppliers. We appoint our people in each of our garment factories whose sole purpose is to ensure full compliance with our strict moral standards for suppliers and to inspect fabric and finished garments at source.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
We recognize that our business activities affect the natural environment in a number of ways. We strive through continuing improvement to minimize the adverse effects on the environment and the earth’s natural resources, whilst safeguarding the health & safety of our employees and the public. We purposely seek out manufactures and related suppliers who take positive action to minimize both waste and the impact of their manufacturing processes on the surrounding environment. Internally, we constantly look for ways to reduce waste through more efficient procedures and recycling initiatives.
FACTORY AUDITING
An ethical audit is a formal examination of the labour practices of a workplace or company. It is a verifiable process to understand, measure, report on and help improve an organization’s social and environmental performance. As a further safeguard our garment manufacturers must agree to permit regular unannounced visits from our management team. We demand that all of our garment manufacturers hold a valid audit.
We Aim To Always:
- Comply with or exceed relevant legislative requirements. Where these are inadequate we will set our own standards that comply with our environmental and ethical criteria.
- Progressively reduce the environmental impact caused by our products and activities.
- Design and manufacture our products with consideration for the environment.
- Encourage manufacturing suppliers to recognize their environmental responsibilities and offer support to help them implement sound environ mental health and safety policies and practices and to insist that the same practices are implemented within their own supply chain.
- Ensure that no chemicals deemed harmful to humans or the environment are present in our products.
- Insist that every component in all products hold a valid certificate to guarantee chemically safe garments.
SUMMARY
Custom Kit confirms the following:
- All factories that manufacture custom Kit garments hold at least one of the following ethical audits – WRAP, BSCI, GOTS or SMETA.
- That none of our valued customers contain any of the current substances of very high concern in accordance to European Regulation (EC) 2006/1907 – Reach Regulation.
- All components used in our garments have been tested as per customer requirements and hold a current certificate testifying this fact.
- Our management team regularly audits all of our garment manufacturing facilities and key suppliers to these factories.
PEARL GLOBAL SOURCING (PGS) UPHOLDS ETHICAL HUMAN RIGHTS
- NO CHILD LABOUR
Pearl Global Sourcing does not accept child labour and actively works to combat it. Our employees never work at night or in hazardous conditions.
- NO HARSH OR INHUMANCE TREATMENT
The use of physical abuse or discipline, the threat of physical abuse, sexual or other harassment and verbal abuse, or any form of intimidation is strictly prohibited.
- ACTIVE CARE FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY