The BSCI develops adapted training activities to increase suppliers´s knowledge and skills with regard to social compliance. These training sessions are open for the suppliers of all BSCI members.

Awareness raising workshops

On a regular basis BSCI organises awareness raising workshops to introduce the suppliers to the BSCI monitoring process and its requirements based on ILO Conventions and national labour legislation. Although all BSCI suppliers are welcomed, the workshops are particularly aimed at those suppliers and subcontractors who have not yet been engaged in an audit.

Advanced workshops

The BSCI and its members also organise projects to provide the middle management of the suppliers with the knowledge, skills and the tools to successfully fulfil the BSCI requirements. These trainings typically take place after an audit has been done, and focus on what are the most common non-compliances that are particularly problematic in a certain area/ country or among certain suppliers.
 
Many organisations - including governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations and trade unions ¨C are already running programmes to deal with specific local problems, including labour related issues. If the BSCI sees the possibility to promote these programmes, to engage suppliers in local activities or to cooperate in developing the necessary local skills, it will take that opportunity.

Worker training sessions

In the long run, we wish suppliers to take over their social responsibility and be more independent. Thus the BSCI intends to organise, with the help of appropriate stakeholders, training activities to increase workers' knowledge about their social rights. The objective is to help them influence their own situation. These training sessions will focus on those issues where workers also have a responsibility to ensure good and safe working conditions. We will also pay particular attention to give recommendations on how to build a constructive dialogue within the company. To ensure the efficiency of those training activities, it is crucial to organise management training sessions at the same time.