These three little things you should know when doing Higg FEM

Higg FEM is the so-called "Higg Verification Factory Environment Module" is a sustainability assessment tool, which standardizes how factories measure and evaluate their environmental performance every year. It is mainly used by manufacturers and factories, completes self-assessment once a year, and selects a third-party verification agency approved by SAC to complete the verification. It uses practical and qualitative questions to evaluate the performance of environmental sustainable development, so as to promote manufacturers to improve The Higg Index evaluation of the certificate can improve the supply chain system and customer trust, and its contents and scores can be shared with relevant brands.

As the factory's understanding of FEM continues to deepen, we believe that everyone's score will also continue to improve, and continuous improvement is the purpose of HiggFEM.

01 Why should verification be done after Higg FEM self-assessment?

[Self assessment+verification]

If the factory wants to get a more objective evaluation, or if the factory wants to better verify its understanding of the self-assessment problem, and better judge the gap between the factory's relevant operation and document preparation and the actual requirements, the verification data can be obtained through Higg FEM verification.

How to control the time of Higg FEM verification?

[Timely verification]

The time to complete the Higg FEM verification depends on the different conditions of each factory, the questions to be answered and the amount of information collected. Normally, it takes about 3-6 weeks to complete the Higg FEM verification,

Because the Higg FEM verification is retrospective, it is recommended that the factory complete the verification in the first half of the year as much as possible, so as to leave more time for improvement and improvement, and reflect the results of rectification in the next year's verification; If the verification is carried out in the second half of the year or even at the end of the year, even if problems are found, it may be too late to complete the improvement and improvement in the same year, which means that the results of this year's efforts to improve will not be reflected in the next year, which directly leads to the increase of time cost.

03 Why does Higg FEM self-assessment and verification require team participation?

[Team cooperation]

Higg FEM's self-evaluation and verification is a team collaboration, because from the beginning of self-evaluation to verification, it involves different functional departments of the factory to provide corresponding data or documents to make efforts for the continuous improvement of the factory.

L Plant manager

L Environmental management officer or compliance director

L EMS manager or specialist

L Personnel specialist

L Production technology director

L Person in charge of equipment maintenance

L Chemical management specialist