scope:

This standard specifies the requirements and best practice guidelines for an effective corporate social responsibility (CSR) management system to help an enterprise integrate CSR as a customer requirement into products and value chain activities, as well as to identify and manage CSR risks and opportunities through cooperation with customers and suppliers, so as to enhance the competitive advantages of the enterprise and its supply chain.

Purpose

This standard helps an enterprise to continually improve its CSR performance through innovation (see 3.10), achieve the following intended outcomes of the CSR management system, which creates value for the enterprise, its customers, its suppliers and other stakeholders.

a. Fulfillment of compliance obligations (see 3.8);

b. Improvement of customer satisfaction (see 3.6);

c. Control of business risks (see 3.9); and

d. Enhancement of operational efficiency.

This standard is developed for and intended to be applicable to electronics manufacturing enterprises, other enterprise may use it as a reference. This standard does not state specific criteria of CSR performance, nor does it add or change the responsibility or obligation the enterprise undertook before it adopts this standard.

An enterprise may use this standard in the following purpose:

a. Establish a CSR management system to guide functional departments or branches to manage their CSR risks and opportunities;

b. Self-evaluate and self-declare to demonstrate its CSR commitments to stakeholders such as customers, employees and investors;

c. Seek confirmation from stakeholders such as customers or investors on their self-declaration;

d. Guide suppliers or investee enterprises to establish their CSR management systems;

e. Seek certification of its CSR management system by an external organization; and

f. Use as a framework for industry cooperation and supply chain cooperation.

This standard may be used in whole or in part to systematically improve CSR management.