Compliance

Sociological environment, in particular those related to labour rights, product safety and intellectual property rights are considered to be of increasing importance nowadays. On protection of labour rights and improvement of working conditions, international standards such as Ethical Trading Initiaitve (ETI) and Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production (WRAP) Programme have been developed and adopted by major markets. In contrast with labour rights, product safety issues are mostly mandatory requirements. The general principle for product safety compliance is that consumer products should not pose any danger to the health and safety of consumers. The Compliance Resources Centre of the Clothing Industry Training Authority keeps a wide range of compliance information while the Product Standards Library of the Innovation and Technology Commission houses a collection of 120,000 international and national standards of major export markets, such as those developed by the International Organization for Standardizations (ISO).