Fair Stone standard
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The Fair Stone standard, also referred to as "fairstone",Marshalls Mono Ltd. trading as Marshalls, [https://www.marshalls.co.uk/gardens-and-driveways/garden-paving/fairstone Fairstone Garden Paving Slabs] accessed 5 January 2021 is a social and environmental standard for the global natural stone industry developed in 2007 by WiN=WiN GmbH – Agency for Global Responsibility, a German consulting agency,[https://www.global-responsibility.agency/home/ WiN=WiN], accessed 5 January 2021 in conjunction with the mining section of the International Social Security Association (ISSA) and other international advisors.Fair Stone e.V, [https://www.en.fairstone.org/fair-stone/standard/ Standard: Development], accessed 5 January 2021 Fair Stone e.V., a non-profit organisation promoting the standard, was founded in 2014.
Other partners in the development of the standard included two Chinese companies, SFS Stone Bloomberg, [https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/AAXJWZ:CH Xiamen Sfs Stone Co Ltd] and Delta Stone,[http://www.deltastone.com.cn/ Xiamen Delta Stone] both based in Xiamen, and a German stone importer, Seltra.[https://ww1.issa.int/sites/default/files/documents/prevention/2_-_Fair_Stone_Summary_en-36456.pdf Fair Stone: For socially acceptable standards in the natural stone industry!], accessed 4 January 2021
The standard covers four aspects of the natural stone extraction and processing industry:
- Occupational safety and health,
- Human and labour rights,
- Environmental impact, and
- Management systems.
Specific criteria exist for quarries, stone processing factories, distribution and the supply chain or chain of custody, associate partners (retail, stonemasons and other commercial clients) and the management system.Fair Stone e.V (2010), [https://www.en.fairstone.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/02/fair-stone-standard-english.pdf International Standard for the Natural Stone Industry], fourth edition (draft), published October 2010, accessed 5 January 2021