6.4.12

Principle 6: Respect for rights of actors involved in BioTrade activities

Criteria Guidance Evidence & Scoring Importance & Applicability
Criteria 6.4: Criteria 6.4: Health and safety conditions


6.4.12

Where housing for permanent, migrant, seasonal, temporary or former workers or for pickers is offered, structural safety and reasonable levels of decency, privacy, security and hygiene, and regular upkeep and improvement of housing and related communal facilities are ensured.


If sanitary facilities are shared, toilets and bathing facilities with clean water are available in a quantity that is reasonable for the number of users and in line with regional practice.



 This requirement applies to any kind of contracted workers, including subcontracted workers. Workers and their families that are housed or lodged on-site have safe, clean and decent living quarters considering local conditions. This includes for example: Location and construction:
  • safe construction; built on non-hazardous location, structure protecting against extreme weather conditions, consisting at least of dry floor, permanent walls and a good state of repair
  • workers/families are informed about emergency evacuation plans
  • measures are taken to reduce the effect of extreme climate conditions such as flooding
  • fire safety: collective housing has marked fire exits, firefighting equipment, and instructions
  • avoid housing on sites subject to air pollution or surface runoff of wastewater
    Health and Hygiene:
  • availability of enough and safe drinking water: at least 20 litres per adult and within 1km/30 minutes round-trip
  • adequate sanitary and washing facilities including:
    a) the number of toilets or Ventilated Improved Pits (VIP), urinals, handwash facilities and shower/bathroom facilities: 1 unit of each for a maximum of 15 persons. Handwash facilities must consist of a tap and basin.
    b) safety and privacy of vulnerable groups are ensured, at least by well-lit and lockable facilities. Sanitary facilities are located within the same buildings, or at a safe distance from the buildings (no more than 60 meters from rooms/dormitories) and provided separately for men and women
    c) adequate closed-sewage or pit latrines, sanitation and garbage disposal facilities are in place
    d) cooking areas with smoke ventilation
    e) enough lighting (daylight and artificial)
    f) dry floors; raised from ground level, either of cement, stone, tile, wood, or clay (the latter only if sealed and levelled)
    g) pest control; absence of rats, mice, insects, and vermin, or conditions that favour their populations that could cause disease or carry parasites that function as vectors of diseases
    Comfort and Decency:
  • families of permanent workers with children have separate rooms from the workers without family members
  • workers’ children live together with their parents and are not separated
  • workers’ children living on-site are in a safe place and under the supervision of an adult during working hours
  • group accommodations for individual workers have separate rooms and separate facilities that can be locked for women and men. A separate bed for each worker is provided. There is a minimum space between beds of 1 meter. Where deck bunks are used, there must be enough clear space between the bunks of the bed, at least 0.7 meters
  • storage for personal belongings of workers is provided, either in an individual cupboard or at least 1 meter of shelf unit for each worker
  • electricity (in-house or nearby) if available in the area ILO_ R115 – Workers’ Housing Recommendation, 1961 (No. 115)| ILO Code of Practice on safety and health in agriculture, 2010, art. 18.7

    • INTERVIEWS

    Conversations with workers individually or in a group (without the presence of employer) in order to identify the housing situation when this is provided by the employer. Conversations with the employer to confirm the information provided by the worker (the employer can also be interviewed before the workers).


    OBSERVATION

    Visit to houses to check conditions of such spaces and whether they are in line with the rules of this requirement.

    Scoring guidance

    0 - Houses provided to the workers don't ensure structural safety and reasonable levels of decency, privacy, security and hygiene, and regular upkeep and improvement. OR: if sanitary facilities are shared, a reasonable number of toilets and bathing facilities with clean water per number of users, and according to regional practice, are not available
    1 - Houses provided don´t ensure structural safety and reasonable levels of decency, privacy, security and hygiene, and regular upkeep and improvement. OR: if sanitary facilities are shared, a reasonable number of toilets and bathing facilities with clean water are not available. Nevertheless, there is a clear plan and steps taken to address this
    2 - Houses provided ensure structural safety and reasonable levels of decency, privacy, security and hygiene, and regular upkeep and improvement. AND: if sanitary facilities are shared , a reasonable number of toilets and bathing facilities with clean water are available. Nevertheless, there are some improvements to be implemented
    3 - Houses provided ensure structural safety and reasonable levels of decency, privacy, security and hygiene, and regular upkeep and improvement. AND: if sanitary facilities are shared, a reasonable number of toilets and bathing facilities with clean water per number of users, and according to regional practice, are available

    Score 2 required by second year

    		 Importance
    Critical stepwise


    Applicability
  • Cultivation & wild collection
  • OaS
  • Sub-suppliers
  • Field operators
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