Horizontal Environmental Performance Standards

While SA 8000 is often wrongly referred to as a social and environmental standard, in fact it only deals with social and labor- related issues.

Following the upsurge in public concern for the environment of the past 10 years , however, several particularly important environmental standards have been developed ” both within individual industries and, with the development of the ISO 14000 series, more universally , with one standard applying to all industrial sectors.