Skip to main content
Home

Main menu

  • About ETI
    • Our members
      • Public reporting performance
    • Who we are
      • ETI's origins
    • What we do
    • Global presence
    • Governance
    • Our team
      • ETI Board members
    • Our Strategy
  • Home
  • Why ETI
    • Why join ETI
  • ETI Base Code
    • Base Code overview
    • Base Code clause 1: Employment is freely chosen
    • Base Code clause 2: Freedom of association
    • Base Code clause 3: Working conditions are safe and hygienic
    • Base Code clause 4: Child labour shall not be used
    • Base Code clause 5: Living wages are paid
    • Base Code clause 6: Working hours are not excessive
    • Base Code clause 7: No discrimination is practiced
    • Base Code clause 8: Regular employment is provided
    • Base Code clause 9: No harsh or inhumane treatment is allowed
  • Our approach
    • Membership
    • Programmes
    • Transparency
    • Meaningful stakeholder engagement (MSE)
  • Our expertise
    • Climate change & Just transitions
    • Crisis response
    • Gender equity in supply chains
    • Worker representation
    • Forced labour & modern slavery
    • Responsible purchasing practices
      • RPP in manufacturing
    • Human rights due diligence
      • HRDD legislation tracker
  • Resources
    • Guidance & reports
    • Blog
      • Blog series: Tackling gender-based violence through GRACE
    • Issues
      • Human rights due diligence (HRDD): a complete guide for business
        • What is human rights due diligence?
        • Human rights due diligence legislation and regulatory requirements
        • How to implement human rights due diligence in your company
        • HRDD risk assessment for supply chains
        • Supplier engagement and human rights due diligence
      • Forced labour & modern slavery: a complete guide for business
        • What is modern slavery? Definitions, forms and scale
        • How to identify forced labour in your supply chain
        • Remediation: what to do when forced labour is found
        • Modern slavery legislation: what businesses need to know
        • EU Forced Labour Regulation: what it means for your business
        • How to write a modern slavery statement
        • High-risk sectors and sourcing regions for forced labour
        • Forced labour and migrant workers in supply chains
      • Responsible purchasing practices: what they are and why they matter
        • How to implement responsible purchasing practices
        • Responsible purchasing practices and legislation: what companies need to know
        • Responsible purchasing practices by sector
    • Case studies
    • Training
    • Events
      • ETI Insights series
    • Impact report 2024-25

Stuart Bell

Position
Director of Policy
Organisation
Ergon Associates

Stuart is a co-founder of Ergon Associates and has more than 20 years experience in corporate responsibility research, strategic consulting, policy advice, project management, responsible investment and corporate governance analysis.

Blog posts from this author

Image courtesy of Shutterstock

Learning from modern slavery statements

27 June 2017
How useful are modern slavery statements? And do we know any more about the prevalence of modern slavery and what companies are doing to combat it?
Migrant workers working on a Thai boat, Samut Sakhon, Thailand.

Modern slavery reporting: what you need to know about your risks

3 February 2016
What will companies required to make a modern slavery statement include in it? It will be a bold consumer-facing brand that chooses to make only a minimal disclosure.
In 2011, ETI members reported more than 267,000 person hours in training for suppliers

All change? 10 years of ETI member reports

12 October 2012
Stuart Bell of Ergon Associates reflects on 10 years of analysing ETI company member reports
Climbing the wage ladder

Climbing the wage ladder

27 July 2011
Ergon's Stuart Bell highlights new initiatives to push workers' wages above legal minima
Photo of fire buckets

What next for audits?

17 February 2011
Stuart Bell, Director of Policy at Ergon Associates, looks at some of the shortcomings of conventional audits as a tool and how companies are increasingly taking a different tack.

Stay up to date

Stay up to date with the latest from ETI via the following channels:
  • Email
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Blog RSS

Get the latest

Subscribe to our email newsletters and stay up to speed on responsible business.
Subscribe

ETI elsewhere

  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube

Footer

  • ETI Community
  • Accessibility
  • Contact
  • FAQ
  • Jobs at ETI
  • Press resources
  • Security & privacy
Other ETIs: Bangladesh, Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Ethical Trading Initiative | Registered No. 3578127