Working with the ITF on HREDD in warehousing and logistics follows four stages.
It begins with establishing what standards apply and where a company's own commercial terms create risk, moves to a joint assessment conducted with the workers affected, opens a dialogue on the root causes those findings expose, and ends with a joint remedy plan and continuous monitoring, so the process does not stop at a single snapshot.
Company
Meet the ITF to discuss worker-centred HREDD across your warehousing and logistics supply chains
Agree shared principles and approaches – including recognition that freedom of association and collective bargaining are enabling rights that make decent work possible
ITF
Sets out the applicable standards, including the ITF Warehousing Principles and the international instruments they draw on
Communicates the risks to warehouse workers' rights and what HREDD requires
Advises how to approach providers for the data you need
Company
Evaluate internal policies, and purchasing, tender and supplier practices, against the ITF Warehousing Principles
Identify the indicators of risk present in your own warehousing supply chain
ITF
Reviews purchasing, tender and supplier policies against ITF Warehousing Principles
Provides training on the indicators of risk in warehousing and logistics supply chains
Company
Request a joint risk assessment and agree the scope and criteria governing it
Share information on your warehousing supply chain confidentially with the ITF — sites, logistics providers, labour agencies and subcontracting arrangements
ITF
Receives supply chain information in confidence
Conducts risk assessment with agreed stakeholders and reports findings to you confidentially and bilaterally, against an agreed framework
Company
Discuss the risks identified and the actions the ITF recommends
Commit to a joint remedy plan to address identified risks and support company engagement with warehousing, distribution and logistics suppliers
Integrate risk mitigation into purchasing, tender and supplier policies and supplier agreements
Undertake regular risk assessments, with the option to extend them to other transport sectors
Recognise commitment to ongoing stakeholder engagement with the ITF through an ITF Cooperation Agreement
ITF
Presents the assessment findings – risks identified and their root causes
Develops the remedy plan jointly to address identified risks and support company engagement with warehousing, distribution and logistics suppliers.
Assists with remediating identified harms through affiliated unions and other available mechanisms
Reviews revised policies to ensure management systems and accountability are clearly defined
Conducts regular assessments so that risk assessment is continuous
Provides the worker-led stakeholder engagement HREDD requires, strengthening supply chain oversight