The Workplace Standards are a set of rules that our suppliers must abide by, but to illustrate how suppliers should implement our Standards, we have created a set of guidelines for use in factory settings. These expand on our Workplace Standards, giving detailed instructions and practical examples for implementation.

The guidelines are also used by our SEA team to:

		Determine whether a supplier is complying with our Standards
		Advise and train our suppliers in improving their performance.

We regularly create new guidelines and revise existing ones. There are currently seven guidelines and those seven are further complemented by specific supplementary materials. The seven guidelines are:

		Guidelines on Health, Safety and Environment
		Guidelines on Employment Standards
		Guide to Best Environmental Practice
		Worker Cooperative Guidelines
		Enforcement Guidelines
		Guidelines on Sustainable Compliance
		Termination Guidelines.

In the course of 2007 the major components of our guidelines were reviewed and revised