Imperative Overview

INTENT:

The intent of this Imperative is to examine a product’s supply chain and identify and mitigate social and environmental risks.

REQUIREMENTS:

Living Products are made by manufacturers committed to responsible practices throughout their supply chains and across business operations. To demonstrate that the promotion of human rights extends to the workers and communities across their full supply chains, manufacturers must:

• Perform human rights due diligence for their top 10 priority suppliers, based on spending, through the Social Hotspots Database (SHDB) risk portal.
• Identify the most critical social risks associated with each priority supplier and the leading certification systems that address those risks by using the Standards Map website.
• Give preference to priority suppliers that either obtain the relevant certification or conduct a social audit to otherwise address the identified social risks.
  

CHANGES FROM LPC 1.1 TO 2.0

This is a new Imperative that seeks to address labor within product supply chains in order to ensure that living products are responsibly produced from extraction to disposal.