ITERATE
Review and continuously improve policies and practices
Grow your company’s impact by refining the approach over time.
ACTION
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Regularly assess the quality of your company’s human rights due diligence policies and practices and seek opportunities for improvement
Continuously improve supply chain initiatives
- Continuously improve upon prior supply chain initiatives and collaborate with other stakeholders to stay aligned with the most up-to-date best practices and evolving legal requirements.
Assess company’s due diligence
- Assess the efficacy of your company’s due diligence, including three aspects outlined by Shift:
- the quality of a company’s human rights risk identification and prioritization processes.
- the quality of its engagement with affected stakeholders.
- the quality of its actions to address salient human rights issues, including setting meaningful targets and collaborating with others to use leverage.
Review best practices
- Regularly review the best practices and asks of companies developed by civil society organizations, including but not exclusive to the following:
- Greenpeace Sustainability, Labor & Human Rights, and Chain of Custody Asks for Retailers, Brand Owners and Seafood Companies.
- Oxfam’s Ripe for Change Reports and Behind the Barcodes Supermarket Scorecard.
- KnowTheChain benchmarks, specifically for the food and beverage sector.
Shift
- Shift has developed key considerations that companies committed to respecting human rights should keep in mind. These include incentivizing robust due diligence measures through accountability (beyond liability) and assessing the quality of human rights due diligence measures.
- Strengthen the quality of human rights due diligence, such as outlined in Shift’s “Signals of Seriousness” for Human Rights Due Diligence.
Optimize Your Company's Path
Discover how companies can apply the RISE Roadmap to improve their social responsibility practices.
Retailers/Brands
- Continue to review, improve, and understand the efficacy of current policies, commitments, and practices, including:
- A need to reassess salient human rights risks, taking into consideration newly available public or supply chain data, legislation on human rights, or global initiatives.
- Any additional actions your company might take given its size and resources.
- Any ineffective measures your company can cease to implement.
- Actions that your company can undertake alone versus with other stakeholders, especially if new collaborations have formed.
- Create a schedule and cycles for review to ensure consistency and progress.
- Use RISE to explore resources and guidance and implement best practice.
Suppliers
- Continue to review, improve, and understand the efficacy of current policies, commitments, and practices, including:
- A need to reassess salient human rights risks, taking into consideration newly available public or supply chain data, legislation on human rights, or global initiatives.
- Any additional actions your company might take given its size and resources.
- Any ineffective measures your company can cease to implement.
- Actions that your company can undertake alone versus with other stakeholders, especially if new collaborations have formed.
- Create a schedule and cycles for review to ensure consistency and progress.
- Use RISE to explore resources and guidance and implement best practice.
Processors
- Continue to review, improve, and understand the efficacy of current policies, commitments, and practices, including:
- A need to reassess salient human rights risks, taking into consideration newly available public or supply chain data, legislation on human rights, or global initiatives.
- Any additional actions your company might take given its size and resources.
- Any ineffective measures your company can cease to implement.
- Actions that your company can undertake alone versus with other stakeholders, especially if new collaborations have formed.
- Create a schedule and cycles for review to ensure consistency and progress.
- Use RISE to explore resources and guidance and implement best practice.
Producers
- Continue to review, improve, and understand the efficacy of current policies, commitments, and practices, including:
- A need to reassess salient human rights risks, taking into consideration newly available public or supply chain data, legislation on human rights, or global initiatives.
- Any additional actions your company might take given its size and resources.
- Any ineffective measures your company can cease to implement.
- Actions that your company can undertake alone versus with other stakeholders, especially if new collaborations have formed.
- Create a schedule and cycles for review to ensure consistency and progress.
- Use RISE to explore resources and guidance and implement best practice.
Build the Foundation
Responsible Recruitment
- Work to achieve the following practices:
- Workers do not pay recruitment fees or related costs, and the ILO’s general principles for fair recruitment are met.
Worker Engagement
- Work to achieve the following practices:
- Recognize the rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining.
- Engage in ongoing, meaningful consultation and communication with workers, worker representatives, and governments.
- Establish procedures to collect, investigate, and resolve grievances within the seafood supply chain.
- Participate in procedures to settle industrial disputes where relevant.
- More information from the ILO can be found here.
Decent Work at Sea
- Work to achieve the following practices:
- At-sea segments of company supply chains meet or exceed the standards outlined in ILO Convention No. 188, the Work in Fishing Convention.