Garment Factory Compliance and Sustainability
Run social, chemical, environmental and due-diligence compliance the way a buyer audit and a customs file actually test it.
A free, self-paced course on apparel compliance: social compliance and working hours, occupational health and fire and building safety, chemical management and restricted substances, environmental, energy, water and waste management, and supply chain due diligence with audit remediation. Four modules, each ending with a five-question quiz.
- 4 modules · 12 subjects
- About 12–16 hours of reading and quizzes at your own pace
- 4 quizzes to check your understanding
- Written by Sanjeewa Dehiwalage
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Who this course is for
- Compliance and sustainability officers in garment factories
- HR and administration staff who answer audit findings
- Merchandisers and buyers who must read a compliance report
- Health and safety committee members and supervisors
What you will be able to do
- Read a code of conduct and say what evidence a factory must hold for each clause
- Judge a working-hours and wage record set for the gaps an auditor will find
- Build a chemical inventory and explain how a restricted-substances list is controlled
- Turn an audit finding into a root-cause corrective action with a closure date
- Explain what traceability evidence a due-diligence request needs, and where it breaks
Preview module
Module 1 — Social Compliance and OHS
Hold a defensible social compliance and safety position: correct records, real committees, and safety systems that work on the floor rather than only in a file.
Sample quiz question from this module
A factory shows clean time records but workers describe regular unrecorded overtime. What does an auditor conclude?
- A. The records are acceptable because they are complete
- B. The records are unreliable, and the finding is on record integrity, not only on hours
- C. Nothing, since worker statements cannot be used
- D. The overtime is legal because it is unrecorded
Show the answer
B. The records are unreliable, and the finding is on record integrity, not only on hours — Inconsistency between records and worker interviews makes the whole record set untrustworthy; falsification is treated far more seriously than an hours breach.
Self-study material. It is not an accredited qualification and no examination board has assessed it. Progress is kept on your device, and on your account once you sign in.
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