As China now provides such a huge source of manufacturing for the UK, BVCPS has introduced training schools to provide local well trained and ethical inspectors and auditors in the region
Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services (BVCPS) has opened two new Chinese training facilities.
The new facilities will enable BVCPS to quickly respond to any customers needs for inspection and auditing services.
Located in Shanghai and Shenzhen, the centres are conveniently situated to qualify inspectors and auditors for manufacturing and sourcing sites in both the north and south of China.
For UK retailers, ensuring their entire global supply chain conforms to recognised ethical standards on working hours, child labour and health and safety can be particularly difficult - not least because of the distance between retailer and factory.
By ensuring its China-based auditors are qualified to assess local manufacturing sites to UK ethical standards, BVCPS can ensure global ethical consistency.
These new training facilities will allow BVCPS's UK customers sourcing from the region to be confident their supply chain operates ethically.
To graduate from the school each new inspector / auditor must complete a four-week training course that includes exercises designed to simulate real-life conditions, followed by four weeks of on-the-job experience, prior to sitting a formal qualification exam.
Auditors are taught relevant ethical standards and how to take into consideration the different cultural and legal environment of each site, whilst inspectors are trained in the standards that products must comply to along with how to assess aspects of the products such as colour, quality and packaging which are most important to BVCPS's clients.
Peter Nicholls, business development manager at BVCPS, comments: "We know that well trained and ethical inspectors and auditors are vital to our clients".
"These new schools will provide inspectors and auditors that will inspire confidence and trust from our clients".
