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Compliance, Sustainability and Traceability

Compliance, Sustainability and Traceability: 5 courses and 25 lessons on ATMA. Every lesson is free to read, with an Excel template for each course.

T10-C01 Social and Ethical Compliance

1. What a social compliance audit checks and why buyers require it
2. Core labour standards a factory must meet, from working hours to freedom of association
3. Reading an audit finding and classifying it as a non-conformance
4. Building a corrective action plan for an audit non-conformance
5. Building a complete compliance audit tracker across multiple audits

T10-C02 Product Safety and Labelling

1. The main product safety risks a garment must be checked against before shipment
2. Children's wear safety rules and why they are stricter than adult wear
3. What a care label and a fibre content label must legally state
4. Country of origin and other labelling rules that change by destination market
5. Building a complete product safety and labelling checklist for an order

T10-C03 Sustainability Standards and Certification

1. The main sustainability certifications a factory or fabric can hold and what each one actually certifies
2. Organic and recycled fibre certification and the chain-of-custody they require
3. Preparing a factory for a certification audit versus a buyer compliance audit
4. What happens when a certification lapses or is not renewed in time
5. Building a complete certification readiness checklist for a factory

T10-C04 Chemical Management

1. Restricted substances lists and why a factory tracks chemicals beyond what a lab test alone catches
2. Building a chemical inventory and safety data sheet record for a factory
3. Manufacturing restricted substances lists versus finished-product restricted substances lists
4. What happens when a restricted substance is found in a finished order
5. Building a complete chemical management tracker for a factory's active chemicals

T10-C05 Traceability, DPP and Circularity

1. What supply chain traceability means, from raw material to finished garment
2. The Digital Product Passport concept and what information it is expected to carry
3. Circularity and recycling and how a garment's design choices affect both
4. Combining certification, chemical and traceability records into one order-level compliance file
5. Building a complete traceability tracker from raw material to finished order

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