GoodWeave Expanded Standard Survey 2014

Thank you for participating in GoodWeave's expanded standard survey! GoodWeave has worked closely with our partners over the past several years to develop and pilot a new, expanded certification standard for the carpet industry. This effort was in response to concerns about adult labor working conditions, fundamental human rights and environmental impacts.

We consulted with a wide range of experts and members of the carpet industry to identify and define seven principles that will help create a more stable, safe and ethical carpet supply chain. After a year and a half of piloting the expanded standard in India, Nepal and Afghanistan, the results of the pilot clearly revealed that the industry faces significant challenges in meeting the basic benchmarks for many of the principles that were tested. GoodWeave is now working with our licensed exporters and producers to tackle these challenges from three angles:

We are revising the certification standard to simplify the requirements and take a staged approach to phasing in the expanded standard. A new draft is available for public review and consultation at www.goodweave.org/standard.
We are expanding the requirements for certification to include the principles of no child labor, no forced and bonded labor, and business processes that are documented and verifiable.
We are developing new producer support programs to ensure producers are able to improve in the remaining four target areas (freedom of association, non-discrimination, decent working conditions and environmental impacts). This is being designed to encourage progressive improvement over time.

This survey is part of GoodWeave's public consultation taking place until December 12th, 2014. We thank you for completing this survey and for your partnership and support.

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