Professional Compliance Community--Building A Community of Professional Compliance Leaders

Keeping Pace with the dynamic changes in supply chain compliance requires increased skills and knowledge by the staff charged with both leading the implementing the work. With changes in environmental and labor laws and regulations, changes in expectations on transparency and an increasingly informed and robust civil society dialogue including both workers, unions and NGOs on supply chain engagement issues, it is essential to develop a team of skilled and capable compliance professionals to overcome these challenges.

Program starts Thursday, Dec 10 in Guangzhou

Agenda
13:30-14:00 Registration
14:00-14:15 Welcome and program introduction
14:15-15:00 Challenges and opportunities for compliance community
15:00-15:20 Capacity building initiatives for compliance community: the 3-Year program overview
15:20-15:35 Tea break and networking
15:35-16:35 Group discussion: understanding your training needs for proposed topics
16:35-17:00 Next steps

Methodology

This program is designed around a three year horizon, with year one focused on deepening the group’s knowledge base, year two opening up participation beyond multinationals and year three aims for PCC to become an independently operating community, as outlined below:

• Year 1: Focus on knowledge building and sharing by multinational compliance staff where participants will directly shape the curriculum and help set goals for the program.
• Year 2: will move to testing and verifying participant knowledge and tracking improvements in transparency and governance within the community. In Year 2 PCC will be open to multinational compliance staff and third party providers in order to share the best practices developed in year one and to assure wide uptake.
• Year 3: PCC will begin to evolve into a self-governing community that allows the systematic exchange of ideas and sharing of best practices.

CURRICULUM FOR YEAR 1 – KNOWLEDGE

Curriculum to be developed based on the below potential topics …

Key Training Topics

Labor, Labor Law, Labor Contract Law, HR system
Compliance issues overview
Systematic understanding of China labor laws and regulations
Focused areas of social compliance
Case study of good labor practices
How to deal with conflict and understanding polarities
How to deploy progressive steps for discipline
How to build a participatory workplace
Communication with suppliers

Environment, Health & Safety
Auditing Skills
Hazards Assessment
Engineering Controls
Chemical, Fire safety, Ventilation, Lighting, Machinery,
Electricity, Ergonomics and Occupational disease
Environment Impacts Assessment
EHS committee
China transparency laws
Up-to-date knowledge in environmental regulations and laws

Community and transparency reporting
Supplier Dialogue Platform
Understanding and evaluating community connections
and impacts
Transparency: factory, brand and community
How to increase the transparency of supply chain

Skills for compliance practitioner
Communication
Management role in a social audit
Expectations from the management
Understanding the context of management in the audit situation
Communication and handling difficult situations
Worker interview
Protocols
PRA
Interactive skills
Capacity building initiatives for suppliers

Key Salon Events
Salon 1: Grievance system
Objectives:
Invite factory representatives to share their good
practices in implementing grievance system
How to understand worker trends through the system
How to get real improvement from the collection of data

Salon 2: EHS committees
Objectives:
How to foster EHS culture through the involvement of
EHS committee

Salon 3: Transparency reporting
Objectives
How to interactive with suppliers on transparency
reporting and enhance the ownership of suppliers

Salon 4: worker engagement
Objectives
Good practice sharing

Location and Pricing
Location of Training: The BSR Guangzhou Training Center
Cost: US$990 per participant

Contact
If you are interested in this program and want to learn more,please contact Jason Ho at jho@bsr.org or +86 20 3882 0836