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Business Social Compliance Initiative, widely known as BSCI, is an initiative by Foreign Trade Association to create consistency and harmonisation for companies wanting to improve their social compliance in the global supply chain. Foreign Trade Association established BSCI in 2002.
 * 1) Name and abbreviation
 * 2) History

Name and abbreviation

History

In the context of globalisation and international competition, many companies source labour-intensive goods from developing and newly industrialised countries. BSCI was formed to establish a common code of conduct and monitoring systems in such sources to ensure that the basic labour standards are complied.

(1) http://www.bsci-intl.org/