This webinar will explore current working conditions in global supply chains, including apparel and electronics, and identify the underlying causes of unsafe, unhealthy, and illegal conditions. It will highlight the impact of the COVID pandemic on global supply chain workers, and how corporate purchasing practices have made a bad situation much worse. Effective measures to improve working conditions will be explained and profiled.
At the completion of this activity, the learner will be able to:
Recognize the underlying causes of unsafe, unhealthy, and illegal working conditions in global supply chains
Summarize why corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs have failed to protect workers
Evaluate effective strategies for improving working conditions for global supply chain workers
Garrett Brown, MPH, CIH, worked as a field compliance officer for Cal/OSHA for over 20 years, and spent his last three years at Cal/OSHA as the Special Assistant to the Chief of Cal/OSHA at Headquarters. Since 1993, Brown has been the volunteer Coordinator of the Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network providing information, training and technical assistance pro bono to worker and community groups in Mexico, Central America, Indonesia, China, and Bangladesh.
Certificates of Completion will be available to webinar participants who are present for the complete, live webinar, and logged in with their registered email address. Call-in attendees are not eligible for certificates at this time - Please download the Zoom app to log in via email on your smartphone whenever possible.
In order to receive your Certificate of Completion, qualified learners must complete the post-webinar evaluation within 7 days of the webinar. A link to the evaluation will be emailed to qualified learners 24 hours after the webinar via no-reply@zoom.us. Qualified learners who submit their evaluation will receive a Certificate of Completion via email, and can also print/save the certificate from their browser after submitting their evaluation.
If you're not able to attend the live presentation, no problem! We record most presentations and will host them on our website provided we have permission to do so. Presentation recordings are not eligible for Certificates of Completion.