SA8000标准的来历
The SA8000 standard.
由于消费者和公众的压力，面对日益激烈的市场竞争，很多欧美跨国公司都制定了各自社会责任守则，同时，一些行业性的、地区性的、全国性的乃至全球性的行业组织和非政府组织也制定了各不相同的守则。据ILO统计，这样的守则已经超过400种。跨国公司一方面要推广本公司的社会责任守则，同时，它还要遵守行业性的、地区性的、全国性的乃至全球性的守则，以应对不同利益相关者团体的需要。同样，对于一家供应商和制造商，它不得不应对不同客户的可能各不相同的守则，不得不重复接受不同客户的工厂检查，我国有些工厂一年之内接受超过15次不同客户检查。由于不同的守则内容可能各不相同，定义各不相同，缺少可比性，也缺少专业的审核员，零售商、供应商和工厂不得不花费大量的人力、物力和财力用于守则的实施，公众和消费者对跨国公司这种缺乏透明度的监督制度也很不满意。公司和消费者都希望制定一个类似ISO9000的标准的、全球通用的社会责任标准，同时建立一套独立的认证认可机制。
Since the consumer and public pressure, in the face of increasingly fierce market competition, many multinational companies have established their own codes of corporate social responsibility, at the same time, some industry, regional, national and even global industry organizations and non-governmental organizations have also developed different codes. According to ILO, this code has more than 400 kinds of. Multinational companies on the one hand to promote the company's social responsibility codes, at the same time, it must also comply with industry, regional, national and even global codes, to respond to different stakeholder groups need. Similarly, for a supplier and manufacturer, it will have to deal with different customers may vary with the code, had to accept different customers factory inspection, some of our factories within a year to accept more than 15 different customers check. Due to the different codes of contents may vary, the definition of each are not identical, the lack of comparability, also lack professional auditor, retailers, suppliers and factories had to spend a lot of manpower, material and financial resources for the implementation of the code, the public and consumer to transnational corporation the lack of transparency of the supervision system is not satisfactory. Both companies and consumers expect to develop a similar to the ISO9000 standard, global and universal social responsibility standards, while establishing a set of independent certification and accreditation system.
        SAI项目总监Eileen Kohl Kaufman（考爱玲）强调说，“对工作条件进行监督存在的一个问题，是这些监督都是零散的、时断时续的。因此，我们很难了解企业过去一周的工作条件，也很难把握今后一周将会怎样。我们认为，将企业行为表现的监督与质量体系概念结合起来，提供一个新的体系，能增强我们监督企业工作条件的信心，使我们能够对不同行业和国家的监督的结果进行比较。”“许多企业制定了有关促进员工基本权利、禁止歧视等做法的行为标准。目前此类行为标准多达数百种，这不仅使供应商感到难以适从，而且效率极其低下。”“由于对有关术语缺乏明晰的界定，对行为标准本身的基准缺乏共识，在整治严重违反劳工权利的行为时往往受阻。”
Project director Eileen Kohl SAI Kaufman ( Ailing test ) said," to supervise the working conditions there is a problem, the supervision is fragmented, broken. Therefore, it is very difficult for us to understand the business over the past week working conditions, is difficult to grasp the next week will how. We think, the enterprise behavior supervision system and quality of conceptual combination, providing a new system, we can enhance the supervision enterprise working conditions with confidence, so that we can work on different industries and national monitoring results were compared." " Many companies developed in relation to promote employees basic rights, prohibiting discrimination practices such as behavior standard. At present this kind of behavior standard of up to hundreds of suppliers, which not only makes the difficult to fit in, and the efficiency is very low." " Due to the lack of clear definition of terms relating to behavior standard benchmark, lack of consensus, in punish serious violations of labor rights behavior are often blocked."
早在1996年，一家瑞士非政府组织曾经建议国际标准化组织（ISO）制订一套ISO2100社会责任管理系列标准用于第三方认证，但这一建议被ISO拒绝了。SA8000标准的提出源于瑞士通用公证行国际认证部（SGS Yarsley ICS）执行董事Reg Easy和美体国际公司（Body Shop）社会审核部高级经理David Wheeler的一次谈话，他们当时提议制定一个可用于第三方认证的社会责任标准，SGS积极支持并赞助制定这一标准。1996年6月，SGS的董事Jim Keegan主持了制定社会责任标准的首次会议，来自美国和欧洲一些公司和非政府组织参加了这次会议，会议一致同意制定一个可用于审核的社会责任国际标准。
In early 1996, a Swiss non-governmental organizations have suggested that the international organization for Standardization ( ISO ) developed a set of ISO2100 social responsibility management standard for third party certification, but the proposal was rejected by ISO. The SA8000 standard is based on the SGS International Certification Department ( SGS Yarsley ICS ) executive director Reg Easy and body international company ( Body Shop ) social audit manager David Wheeler a conversation, they were proposing an applicable to third party certification standards of social responsibility, actively support and sponsorship of SGS formulation this standard. In 1996 June, SGS director Jim Keegan hosted the first meeting of the formulation of social responsibility standard, from the United States and some European companies and non-governmental organizations attended the meeting, meeting agreed to develop a can be used to audit the international standards of social responsibility.