A total of five training sessions, each lasting one to two days, will be provided, totaling 9 training days. All the training sessions will take place in Mandarin and will be highly interactive and participatory.

Four of the two-day training sessions – CSR Management System & Law Update (CSRM), Health & Safety Management (HSM), Productivity & Overtime (POT), and Supervisory Skills Training (SST) – will be delivered in every two month. Between training sessions, participants will be required to implement what they learned in the classroom.

Based on Apparel Packaged training experience, a more supplier oriented assignment is recommended in this training project. All after-training action plan and CSR performance metrics will rely on suppliers' self-motivation, while CTI will act only as a guidance and helper. This not only engages more with suppliers' ownership, most importantly, it is the key element of project success. After all, the principle part is suppliers, and all learning, improving should come from them and in the end benefit them.

CSR Management Systems & Law Update

• Introduction to entire training program
• Review of how training may help improve Code of Conduct compliance, including an introduction to laws and existing standards, with particular attention to China's CSR standard for the apparel sector, CSC9000T
• Shift mindset regarding compliance: from “checklist approach” to an approach that emphasizes continuous improvement through systemic changes
• Introduction to how suppliers will actively participate in this training – supplier representative case studies
• CSR management system models, goals of a system, management roles and responsibilities
• Suggested labor practice and Labor Contract Law

Work Place Health & Safety Management (HSM)

• Basic review of Chinese HSM laws
• How to conduct a HSM risk assessment
• Fire safety, Machine safety, ergonomics
• Hazardous chemical management and occupational disease prevention
• Best Practice Sharing: suppliers required to develop and share case studies on HSM improvement in their factories

On-site Supervisory Skills (SST)

• The role and responsibilities of on-site supervisors
• Five elements for site management & four new interpersonal relationships
• On-site management on production, quality, cost, etc.
• Workers motivation and incentive
• Team building and highly efficient working models

Productivity & Overtime (POT)

• Cell production for garment factories
• Factory operation management including Cross department collaboration, standard work procedure analysis, production planning, quality control
• Effective workers performance assessment
• Fair and positive incentive mechanism design
• Employees' training and build high efficiency team

Closing Forum & Graduation Ceremony

• Government official to speak on labor law issues relevant to Chinese factories
• Through facilitated small group discussions, suppliers and brands will share successes & challenges they have had through the 9 months of training
• Select suppliers will share their experience with the training through short presentations

Measuring training impact is an important objective of this program. We intend to track and evaluate the effectiveness of the training in three ways: