WCA assessments for enterprises who produce toys, presents, electronic products and household compliances.

Currently, enterprises who produce toys, apparel, textiles, household appliances and electronic products, etc. tend to reach WCA - the programme of working condition assessment to meet standards of social responsibility in order to demonstrate workers' welfare assurance to customers and the society.

In the integration context, enterprises have more opportunities because they not only have fixed local customers and domestic partners but also reach the world. While international customers really desire to have effective measures to assess working conditions of suppliers and be a partner to meet globally social responsibility standards.

Peculiarities of factories in Vietnam:

Vietnam's market economy has many development steps:

Industrial zones, factories which belong to numerous sectors, particularly enterprises producing toys, apparel, textiles, household appliances and electronic products, etc. While textile industry is one of the biggest GDP contributors in Vietnam's economy and provide jobs for more than 3 million workers while household appliances and electronic products are promoted by investors and will be a potential manufacturing industry in the future. Other industries are also developing to create industrial clusters stretching over the country, which requests synchronous application of international standardization from enterprises to compete with businesses in the area and in the world.

WCA tendency - Workplace Condition Assessment

WCA is one of the part of Globally Social Compliance Programme. This is a recognized retailer association in the world.

WCA addresses the following problems and more than that:

• Labour: Children/ forced labour, discrimination, discipline, harassment/ abuse, freedom of association and labour contract.
  
• Salaries and working hours: Salaries and benefits, overtime.
  
• Health and safety: Universal workplaces, emergency preparation, occupational injuries, machine safety, safety hazards, chemical material, dormintories and canteens.
  
• Management system: Documents and dossiers, workers' complaints anfd participation, audit and process of corrective action.
  
• Environment: Comply with the law, environment management, waste detection and air system.
  

Advantages of Workplace Condition Assessment (WCA)

• Improve working conditions, contribute to productive and effective labor force.

• Neatly arrange and classify assessment questions, which helps to provide useful information and make a contribution to overcome problems quickly.

• Form the basis for social responsibility compliance with chosen suppliers to prepare for applying standard of greater social responsibilities in industry.

• Develop the trust in business relationships with suppliers through greater transparency and considerable risk reduction.

• Make reduction in social responsibility assessment which are unnecessary and are overlapped.

Results of WCA for factories:

Once factories have been registered according to WCA and gained a WCA certificate, which means that they can share their reports with any customer as an evidence of successful implementation of social responsibility compliance and ethical business.

Enterprises producing toys, apparel, textiles, household appliances and electronic products desire to have WCA train please contact with KNA Cert Hotline: 093.2211.786 or send an email to us salesmanager@knacert.com.