ICTI CARE Process: International Toy Industry's Ethical Manufacturing Programme

The CARE (Caring, Awareness, Responsible, Ethical) process is the International Council of Toy Industries' (ICTI) programme to promote ethical manufacturing, i.e. fair labour treatment as well as employee health and safety, in the global toy industry supply chain. Its intent is to provide a single, fair, thorough and consistent programme to monitor toy factories' compliance with ICTI's Code of Business Practices in the entire world. The heart of the CARE Process is composed of a 7 steps programme.

This programme supervises the compliance with the ICTI code of business practices in a simple, fair, complete and unique way. It is principally composed of the following principles: no child labor or forced labour, no sexual, racial, religious, organisational membership discrimination, respect of the local environmental laws and respect of the local hygiene and security standards. Multiple audits are avoided through a common database.

Information

  • Author: The International toy industry's federation (toy trade associations from 20 countries: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Chinese Taipei, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States)
  • Application: Sectorial
  • Creation Date: 1995 (expanded in 1996 to include fire prevention and emergency)
  • Availability: Free
  • Pillars: Transversal

Source

http://www.icti-care.org/
http://www.toy-icti.org

Remarks

Specificity

Principally targeted to China (70% of worldwide toy production), Hong Kong and Macao.

Nature of the instrument - standard

Purpose - certification