CSR Standards & Codes
Introduction
There are a large number of CSR standards, codes, guidelines, and surveys that companies may choose to participate in or be assessed against.
Within these pages you can find guidance on how to include disability when completing questionnaires and assessment forms for a number of leading codes and standards. This guidance will help you respond more effectively and improve your reporting on disability in relation to CSR.
There is a range of detail about disability that standard operators may ask for. In many cases there is little, if any, specific, mention of disability. However, responding companies are able to make relavant references to disability within their answers to a number of questions covering topics such as
- Diversity
- Health and Safety
- Training
- Staff recruitment and selection
- Customer management
- Product development
- Community relations
Whether a CSR standard specifically asks for information about disability or not, companies should include their disability activities in their answers and so gain the appropriate credit from the assessors.
For detailed advice on how to raise awareness of an organisation's management of disability count in relation to some of the leading CSR standards and codes choose one of the links below:
- Dow Jones Sustainability
- Global Reporting Initiative
- GoodCorporation
- Social Accountability International - SA8000
- United Nations Global Compact