#GOTS Certification Training

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GOTS Certification : Training - Consulting Provider - Global Organic Textile Standard

Global Organic Textile Standard Overview

The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) is the worldwide leading textile processing standard for organic fibers, including ecological and social criteria, backed up by independent certification of the entire textile supply chain. The aim of the standard is to define world-wide recognized requirements that ensure organic status of textiles, from harvesting of the raw materials, through environmentally and socially responsible manufacturing up to labelling in order to provide a credible assurance to the end consumer

In USA the clothing’s certified by GOTS are only termed Organic

Scope And Applicability Of GOTS

Textile products that contain a minimum of 70% organic fibers can opt for GOTS certification. GOTS is applicable to entire textile supply chain.

It is applicable to industries processing, manufacturing, packaging, labelling, trading and distribution of all textiles made from at least 70% certified organic natural fibers.

Textile processing, manufacturing and trading entities.

Retailers selling GOTS Goods to end consumers may also voluntarily apply to become GOTS certified.

textile processing facilities that have processes such as ginning, spinning, weaving/knitting, dyeing & printing and stitching

GOTS Training

Our team of GOTS Consultants offers a customized GOTS training program on GOTS for

GOTS Requirements

SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS

GOTS certification requires use of organic fibers certified by standards from IFOAM family (95% for “organic” label and 70% for “made with organic” label) in addition to requirements specified related to:-

Socially responsibilities

Quality Assurance System

Ecological Environment Conditions

Safe Working Conditions

International Labor Organization criteria

Toxicological criteria

DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENTS

Depending on the processing stages performed, the policy should include procedures such as to monitor and minimize waste and discharges.

A program for continual improvement.

Wet processing units must keep full records of the use of chemicals, energy, water consumption and waste water treatment, including the disposal of sludge.

Benefits Of GOTS Implementation

Processors and manufacturers that receive a GOTS certificate of compliance are authorized to accept orders for GOTS compliant processing / manufacturing in their certified scope.

Certified exporters as well as traders are authorized to trade GOTS textile products that belong to the scope of their granted certification.

Entities that receive a GOTS scope certificate are free to advertise their certified status on the market.

Become listed in the GOTS public database on the website. Gaining End users trust in the products Organic Authenticity.

[tea-time-terrier]

Bless this tiny creature and her adaptability.

[pikslasrce]

im going to do it for real this time (drop out and get a job)

[fanfic-phoenix]

Obitine Week 2023, Day 7 - Internal Policies

Prompt: Jedi

Rating: Gen

Word Count: 233

Read on AO3

Satine raised an eyebrow. “Safeguarding procedures?”

“It is part of the code,” Obi-Wan was saying.  “In fact, it’s more than most non-Jedi know.  It’s just not the whole code.”

“And the whole code is…?”

“Very long.  And mostly uninteresting.”  He smiled at her, to show he wasn’t entirely serious.  “There’s the mantra - the part outsiders know because we meditate on it - and then the practical things.  One Padawan to one Master, love as opposed to attachment, those sorts of things.  Internal policies, safeguarding procedures-”

Satine raised an eyebrow.  “Safeguarding procedures?”

“Padawans start as children, and spend most of their time alone on assignment with their Master.  We have some of the most stringent procedures in the Republic!  They’re very rarely needed, but…  Well.  Better to have them and not need them than the reverse.”

“I suppose I never thought of it.”

“Exactly,” he said.  “It’s publicly available, but only relevant to the Jedi, so no one ever reads it.  Just the nice, short, slightly confusing poem.”

“And that… bothers you?”

“No,” he said, then hesitated.  “Not really.  Only if someone speaks in ignorance on something that they would have known if they’d checked.  Then it’s annoying.”

“There is no ignorance,” she teased, and Obi-Wan laughed.

“That is the rule of the Jedi.  All others may be as ignorant as they please.”

“Ignorance does not please me,” Satine said.  “Tell me about the code.”

His eyes brightened, and he did.

Tagging: @weekofobitine

[hashtag-xolo]

Five hours of dog training aka I hyperfixated on my special interest for five hours and got paid for it

[eats-the-stars]

Consider Machines Over Customers

don’t know how useful this is, but for people who hate the customer interaction part of their jobs, like, if you think that is the worst part of your job, consider looking for a job that does not involve you interacting with customers. the hard part is that all the “basic job that you don’t need a college education to get” kind of jobs that I could think of to look for on job sites were like call center work and waitress and hotel staff and front desk work and retail and, you know, customer service positions. so I was searching job sites with those key words and did not know about a lot of other options. namely...machines. yes, that’s right. turns out there are so many machines out there and they all need people to operate them. there’s also warehouse stocking jobs but i haven’t tried one of those so I can’t endorse or diss them. BUT...I am working a machine operating job right now and I actually love machines. they are great. they also have yet to yell at me about an expired coupon. i mean, sometimes they do complain about thread breakage or refuse to read a positioning mark that is RIGHT THERE, but still...I love machines. I also do not have to see customers at all. like, I know the orders go to customers eventually, but I do not need to help them place the orders or receive the calls when their package does not arrive on time. I just need to fill the order and I’m done. whatever happens next is out of my hands. actually...the delivery workers might be another “customers are not my problem” option. they pick up orders from us and I think they just need to whip those at the front doors of customers, but they don’t actually need to talk to them.

just...the main point is that I spent a long time stuck thinking that all the “non-career” jobs I could get required customer interaction. unless you were, like, a cook in the back or stocking jobs, and i can’t cook or lift that much. so my advice is...just try getting creative with the keywords you plug into job sites. I hit on my current job by pure chance, no idea why it showed up when I was typing in stuff like “front desk” and “call center representative.” If you want machine stuff, try typing in “manufacturing” or “assembly” or “operator” or “production.” I am mostly just throwing this out there into the void in case it helps anyone. I spent way too long doing customer service and hating how draining it was and how much I would dread going to work. but now I am shocked that I actually do not mind going to work. it is tiring, but only physically, and otherwise actually enjoyable. so...consider machines over customers.

[daechwitamv]

story time with sari 😀

[oatbugs]

consequences of me no longer living close to the music practice rooms is that i havent played the violin in a while (this is heartbreaking to think about and whenever someone mentions the violin i want to die) however. i am filling that hole by getting an archery GB certificate and going to the range whenever i have an emotion .

[fangirlinginleatherboots]

Surpasses my peers surpasses my peers surpasses my peers

More seriously tho I'm succeeding at work by a lot and my extra effort has been paying off big time. I'm getting so much good experience and education that I can use forever and I'm so grateful.

[spoonietimelordy]

I think that the worst part of the emergency mental health training I got wasn't the misgendering or the racist jokes, nop it was that she kept insisting that it wasn't our role to share copying mechanism or harm reduction techniques. We were trained to only be tools to the abusive system that is french psychiatry and it suck.

[orcelito]

I'm building up a rapport with the newest trans coworker. He's been here for a month or two now and he's pretty cool. Definitely in his sadboy era (judging by the music he listens to, which is SO me at age 20 ish. So like mood). Quiet, but with a wry sense of humor that's been coming out more lately.

I am very definitely out as Not Straight & he has seen this pretty clearly. Also since I'm in management I saw his birth certificate as part of paperwork stuff, so like. He's never upfront told me, but I know he's trans. I've never breathed a word of it to anyone, even to him tbh, so I hope he reads that as a good indicator that I'm Chill

I was complaining yesterday about how heavy the ginger juice was and he was just like "..Gender juice?" As in he misheard me and was genuinely confused what I was talking about. And I was just like. "Oh yeah. Gender Juice. Ya kno." Idk just one of those stupid things that purely cis ppl wouldn't joke about. So I rly hope he's getting not cis vibes from me. Bc I am not out as nonbinary at work bc Oof but like. We r Brothers, him and I. Maybe someday I can mention it. Idk

[fingertipsmp3]

Why am I so proud of myself for doing something that is basically a failure on all levels

[hellotherepaul]

Dear god this adulting stuff is so overwhelming

[cerneterydrive]

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[lostinmcyt]

Fully agree that people shouldn't expect queer activists to address every issue, and the anon shouldn't have called your activism into question because you hadn't addressed the comment. I do want to comment on this part though:

to address your concerns however, I simply do not care about an off color joke made by a gamer in the heat of the moment that yes reads as homophobic but was not aimed personally @ any specific person AND would have not been homophobic if Sap switched aids for any different disease (in my country you'd hear 'this is so cancer/it gives me cancer' regularily) which - shitty comment to make yes but the basis of a it has nothing to do with homophobia.

The reason why him bringing up aids in his comment is so problematic in this context is because discourse and policy around aids in America/Canada is very specifically tied to homophobia. The disease was very heavily stigmatized and mostly impacted the queer community, and the government essentially left the queer population to die. It killed thousands of queer people, especially QTBIPOC, and was also tied to a lot of homophobic policies and homophobic discourse from President Ronald Reagan & broader society at the time. The epidemic and the surrounding discourse still has implications on the queer community today (mlm not being allowed to give blood, a huge lack of queer elders because many of them were killed, stigma & lack of education around anal sex, etc). It was a very traumatic time.

Still agree you shouldn't have to address it and different countries definitely have different histories, but wanted to explain why saying "the basis of it has nothingto do with homophobia" isn't completely correct and why bringing up aids at a pride event it isn't analogous to bringing up other diseases/disorders (though I think mentioning cancer isn't okay either; but the backlash to his comment is specific to the fact that he brought up aids because aids has a specific history of trauma with the queer community in the American* context)

*I'm not as educated about the impact of aids on homophobic discourse in other countries; I know it also impacted the UK but my knowledge centers around America and I don't want to misspeak on others countries' histories.

hi anon o/

just to clarify - by 'the basis of the joke' I simply meant the format of 'this is so (insert a disease)', which is why I brought up the cancer version which is more common over here

thank u /gen for the ask and I am not challenging the history of aids in the queer community at all, that's why I started by saying that yes his joke can read as homophobic especially in context of the pride event where the connotation would still jump to people's minds immediately (for obvious reasons). I just meant that had he used a different sickness there this would not be a discussion of him being homophobic (it would be a whole different discussion then which is why the comment is shitty in the first place, cause you are right using cancer would Still be Not Good), but at the end of the day he did use aids and it was :/ so it's good he talked about it

like my main thing in situations like this is that at the end of the day ppl like Sapnap are not lgbt foes so, especially if he immediately after the event acknowledged what he said as a shitty thing, I personally am not going to be spending a lot of time thinking about it

[eatsless]

i am legit so excited to get certified to be an ice hockey ref