6.4.3

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


6.4.3

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is available and used in a manner adequate to prevent risks of accidents or adverse effects on producers and workers’ health. Measures are in place to ensure that PPE is used.



Personal protective equipment (PPE) is specialised clothing or equipment worn by workers and producers for protection against health and safety hazards. It is designed to protect many parts of the body, such as eyes, head, face, hands, feet, and ears. It includes mechanisms for protection from noise, dust, light, exposure to chemicals, etc. PPEs should have the same quality for all categories of workers that are exposed to the same type of risk. PPEs should be provided to workers free of charge. For producers, the setup can be different. Measures to ensure use of PPEs may be (among others): raising awareness among workers and producers; having surveillance to make sure the workers and producers use PPEs; having signs in facilities to clearly show which PPEs are required to be used, etc. This requirement applies to any kind of contracted workers, including subcontracted workers.

INTERVIEWS

Conversations with workers and producers individually or in a group (without the presence of employer in the case of the workers) in order to identify whether they know what PPE they need to use. Identify if they have received instructions in the proper use of such equipment. Talk to the employer to confirm that the information provided by the worker (the employer can also be interviewed before the workers).


DOCUMENTATION

Records of trainings provided to workers and producers on proper use of PPE.


OBSERVATION

Observe whether workers and producers are using the PPE according to the defined rules and according to the job risks.

Scoring guidance

0 - There is no measures in place to ensure the use of PPE to prevent risks of accidents or adverse effects on health. PPEs are not used
1 - There are measures in place to use of PPE to prevent risks of accidents or adverse effects on health, but workers and producers are not systemically using the PPEs. There are no clear steps taken to address this issue or the steps taken are not sufficient to implement the measures.
2 - There are measures in place to use of PPE to prevent risks of accidents or adverse effects on health. Workers and producers are respecting the measures and using the PPEs in a systematic way. Nevertheless, some improvements were identified as improvements (i.e. some few workers were not using the PPEs).
3 - Personal protective equipment (PPE) is available and used in a manner adequate to prevent risks of accidents or adverse effects on workers and producer´s health. Measures are in place to ensure that PPE is used.

Importance
Critical


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

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