ISO 26000
Social Responsibility
Standard Overview
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Certification Benefits
- Assist organizations in addressing their social responsibilities while respecting cultural, societal, environmental, and legal differences and economic development conditions
- Provide practical guidance related to making social responsibility operational
- Assist with identifying and engaging with stakeholders and enhancing credibility of reports and claims made about social responsibility
- Emphasize performance results and improvement
- Increase confidence and satisfaction in organizations among their customers and other stakeholders
- Achieve consistency with existing documents, international treaties and conventions, and existing ISO standards
- Promote common terminology in the social responsibility field
- Broaden awareness of social responsibility
This standard is not intended to reduce government’s authority to address the social responsibility of organizations.
Certification Requirements
- Recognizing social responsibility and engaging stakeholders
- Ways to integrate socially responsible behavior into the organization
- The seven key underlying principles of social responsibility:
- Accountability
- Transparency
- Ethical behavior
- Respect for stakeholder interests
- Respect for the rule of law
- Respect for international norms of behavior
- Respect for human rights
- The seven core subjects and issues pertaining to social responsibility:
- Organizational governance
- Human rights
- Labor practices
- The environment
- Fair operating practices
- Consumer issues
- Community involvement and development
