Apple Supplier Responsibility2014 Progress ReportApple is deeply committed to expanding opportunities for the people who makeour products and ensuring these workers are treated with respect and dignity.We will continue to work closely with our suppliers and stakeholders to providefair and safe workplaces and protect the environment wherever Apple productsare manufactured.Highlights from Our 2014 Report•We launched the Apple Supplier Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) Academy,an 18-month curriculum aimed at raising the level of EHS expertise in our supplychain. In 2013, over 240 factory personnel—representing more than 270,000workers—enrolled in this program.•We started a project to drive accountability for the vocational schools that placestudent interns in our supplier facilities.•We drove our suppliers to achieve an average of 95 percent compliance with ourstandard maximum 60-hour workweek. We tracked more than 1 million workersweekly in this program.•We confirmed in January 2014 that all active, identified tantalum smelters in oursupply chain were verified as conflict-free by third-party auditors.•We released a list of the smelters and refiners whose tin, tantalum, tungsten, andgold we use so it’s clear which ones have been verified as conflict-free and whichones still need independent verification.•We launched a pilot of our Clean Water Program with 13 supplier sites—whocollectively use more than 41 million cubic meters of water per year—with agoal to reuse a significant amount of treated process wastewater and recyclewater within the production process.•We continued to seek out abuses of migrant workers by conducting 33 auditsspecific to this topic, including 16 factories not previously audited. We requiredsuppliers to reimburse these foreign contract workers US$3.9 million in excessivefees paid to labor brokers, bringing our total reimbursements since 2008 toUS$16.9 million.•We have driven our suppliers to train more than 3.8 million workers on theirrights since 2008—including over 1.5 million in 2013 alone.•We conducted 451 audits at all levels of our supply chain—a 51 percent increasefrom 298 audits in 2012—in facilities where nearly 1.5 million workers makeApple products.•We strengthened our Supplier Code of Conduct and publicly released our SupplierResponsibility Standards—a document with more than 100 pages outliningApple’s detailed expectations on labor and human rights, ethics, health and safety,and environment.
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