Verify the environmental performance of your garment or footwear manufacturing facility
Verify the environmental performance of your garment or footwear manufacturing facility
The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) is the apparel, footwear, and textile industry’s leading alliance for sustainable production. With that vision in mind, the SAC developed the HIGG Index Facility Environmental Module (FEM) was developed by the SAC to offer insights to manufacturers, owners, and retailers of their individual facilities to support them in augmenting sustainability improvements across the supply chain. This is a sustainability self-assessment tool that standardises how facilities measure and evaluate their environmental performance, year over year.
Some of the benefits of the HIGG Index Facility Environmental Module are as below:
The Higg FEM (Facility Environmental Module) verification process is a means to ensure the credibility and accuracy of the self-assessment completed by facilities using the Higg FEM. The HIGG verification process involves reviewing the answers to the self-assessment and determining their accuracy through an on-site assessment conducted by a third- or second-party SAC-approved verifier. Here is an overview of the Higg FEM verification process:
TÜV SÜD supports companies as an independent third-party verifier of HIGG Index FEM verification. As an organisation, we are committed to promoting sustainability and transparency in your supply chain. Our experienced lead verifiers have the most appropriate skills for evaluating your HIGG FEM self-assessment.
The benefits of a Higg Index FEM (Facility Environmental Module) verification include:
TÜV SÜD supports companies as an independent third-party verifier of HIGG FEM verification. As an organisation, we are committed to promote sustainability and transparency in your supply chain. Our experienced lead verifiers have the most appropriate skills for the evaluation of your HIGG FEM self-assessment.
TÜV SÜD offers Higg FEM verification services, which help facilities understand their overall social and environmental impact. The verification process ensures that facilities accurately complete all parts of the Higg FEM self-assessment, giving their self-assessment the credibility and accuracy required to share it publicly. TÜV SÜD conducts authorised verification of Higg FEM self-assessment results, enabling facilities to develop and maintain a sustainable and responsible supply chain.
This year-on-year verification ensures that the organisation continually improves its reduction of wastes (Bio/non-Biodegradable/Hazardous), energy consumption, water consumption, GHG emissions, and Cost of Production per unit of production.
The Higg FEM verification protocol is a means to verify that a facility has accurately completed all parts of the Higg FEM self-assessment, giving the self-assessment the credibility and accuracy required to share it publicly. The verification is conducted by a third- or second-party SAC-approved verifier who is responsible for validating the accuracy of the assessment. The Higg FEM verification program is not a pass/fail audit but rather a means to verify that the facility understood and answered the FEM self-assessment correctly.
The Higg FEM stands for Higg Facility Environmental Module. It is a sustainability assessment tool that standardises how facilities measure and evaluate their environmental performance. The Higg FEM provides facilities with a clear picture of their environmental impacts, helps them identify and prioritise opportunities for performance improvements, and assesses various aspects of environmental management, such as energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, water use, and waste management.
The parameters associated with the Higg Index FEM are:
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