BES 6002 Ethical Labour Sourcing Verification

An organization has been independently verified against BRE's BES 6002 Ethical Labour Sourcing standard, assessing the maturity of its processes for addressing ethical labour risks — including modern slavery due diligence — in its own operations and sourcing.

• A guarantee that no labour abuses exist anywhere in the supply chain — it verifies the organization's management processes and their maturity, not every supplier site.
• Environmental claims of any kind.
• Product-level claims — verification applies to the organization.

• Claims Fair Labour Practices →

  high risk

Minimum authority

Third-party verified

Should state

Verified Organization · Verification Number · Assessment Date · Valid Until

Date sensitivity

Expiry matters — check the certificate is current.

BES 6002 is a maturity-based verification of management processes, which is meaningfully weaker than site-level social audits of actual working conditions.

Primarily a UK standard, developed alongside BES 6001 and modern-slavery due-diligence expectations.