Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Social Responsibility
Development Status, June 2009
An Indus try V iew
Th e Pro ject
• The P rojec t
• ISO 26000 Contents and Players
• Applicability Aspects
• ISO 26000 CD Vote by March 2009
• Success Criteria
• Risk of Failure
• Tool: Check of Effectiveness
Background
About the Standard and its Process
Meeting History
Current Status (June 2009)
Next Steps
When/How did this Start?
Key characteristics:
International standard providing guidance;
NOT for certification;
NOT a Management System Standard
NOT for procurement or any other
contractual use
Scope
Assist organizations in addressing their SR by
providing practical guidance on engaging
stakeholders, implementing/integrating SR,
& enhancing credibility of SR reports/claims
Increase customer/stakeholder confidence &
satisfaction
Promote common terminology & broaden SR
awareness
Emphasize performance results &
improvement
Unique & Experimental
Development Process
No ISO/TC; instead, ISO/TMB WG
Document development along stakeholder
group lines, NOT along NSB lines
Voting on the CD stage reverting traditional
P-member voting
Consensus within many ISO member bodies
may be difficult to achieve; important
viewpoints not covered by consensus may
be reported separately
Stakeholder Groups
(representation in WG SR)
Industry (23.5%)
Service, Support, Research, Others (20.5%)
Government (20%)
Non-Governmental Organizations (17.5%)
Consumers (11.5%)
Labor (7.5%)
Meeting Places
WG SR Members (1/2)
Stakeholder Groups (D-
Liaisons included)
Exper Observ
by
Industry
Governm 94 ts ers
43 137 experts observer total %
Gender
ent
Consume 83 37 120 s
118 377 62,9
male 259
r 50 23 73 151 71 222 37,1
female
Labor 37 19 56 599
NGO
Services 83 36 119
… 84 38 122
total 431 196 627
by Countries (D-Liaisons not
counted) Expert Observe
Developi s rs total %
ng
Develope 220 102 322 62,2
d 138 58 196 37,8
518
Members have
equal rights,
regardless of
their delegating
organization.
Canada
D-Liaison orgs (for 80% of them, leaning/approach & agenda [CSR] is the same as that
of Consumers & NGOs)
Stakeholder Balance
Strong National Pushes in support of document:
EU nations (Nordic states, but many others too)
Canada
D-Liaison orgs (for 80% of them, leaning/approach & agenda [CSR] is the same as that
of Consumers & NGOs)
Regional Balance – Country (NSB*)
Strong National Pushes in support of document:
EU nations (Nordic states, but many others too)
Canada
D-Liaison orgs (for 80% of them, leaning/approach & agenda [CSR] is the same as that
of Consumers & NGOs)
Canada
D-Liaison orgs (for 80% of them, leaning/approach & agenda [CSR] is the same as that
of Consumers & NGOs)
Work Group (WG) Meetings (1/4)
1st Plenary: Salvador, March 2005 2nd Plenary: Bangkok, Sept. 2005:
300 participants 1200 written comments before
DIS vote by
91 WG SR P-members (or more)
and all
160 ISO member bodies