Committed to workers' health, safety, and welfare
Good agricultural practices aren’t just about products; they are also about people.
That’s why we offer GRASP – The GLOBALG.A.P. Risk Assessment on Social Practice. It is a voluntary, farm-level social/labor management tool for global supply chains, to be used in combination with Integrated Farm Assurance (IFA).
How it works
- Producers can assess, improve, and demonstrate their responsible social practices through a simple but robust evaluation checklist of four main topics: Workers’ voice, human and labor rights information, human and labor rights indicators, and child and young workers protection.
- The assessment is carried out simultaneously with an IFA audit in order to minimize the audit burden (time and costs) for producers.
- Evidence methods are determined by the country risk classification in order to balance efficiency and flexibility.
- Evaluation is complemented by national interpretation guidelines of local legislation to help assessors and producers to understand local compliance systems.
- GRASP covers the main topics of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the International Labour Organization (ILO)’s core labor conventions
Country Risk Classification
- The GRASP country risk classification uses the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) issued by the World Bank to determine the level of evidence required during a GRASP assessment.
- The list of countries assigned to the three categories is updated yearly, following the revision periods of the indicators issued by the World Bank.
- The higher the risk level, the higher the level of evidence necessary.
- Find out more about the methodology in the Country Risk Classification Concept.
National interpretation guidelines - harmonizing good social practice worldwide
- Legal labor requirements such as minimum wage, age of legal employment, or working hours differ from country to country. National interpretations guidelines are developed to help implement a global assessment on a local scale.
- Where the national requirements are stricter, local legislation overrides GRASP. Where there is no legislation (or legislation is not so strict), GRASP provides the minimum compliance criteria for a good social management system.
- GRASP can be assessed in every country – even in countries that do not have a national interpretation guideline yet.
Find out more about GRASP NIGs here.
Versions and validity
- GRASP v1.3-1-i was published in June 2020 and became mandatory on 1 February 2021.
- GRASP v2 was published on 26 April 2022. It will replace v1.3-1-i and become mandatory on 1 May 2023.
More than 117,000 producers in 99 countries use GRASP as their social/labor management tool
of choice.
