TEXbase Guardian

Tool Category	Website	Owner/Sponsor	Entity Type	Product Categories
Third-party Evaluation Tools	www.texbase.com/brand-retailer-solutions/compliance/	TEXbase	for-profit	All Sectors

TEXbase Guardian is a compliance management solution for brands, retailers, and consumer product companies. Companies can subscribe to the TEXbase Guardian system as a comprehensive solution for all compliance requirements, or just use one of its capabilities, such as RSL management.

What Is Evaluated?

Focus	Impacts
Chemicals Materials Products Companies	Ecological health Human health Social responsibility Materials efficiency Energy use

Description

TEXbase Guardian addresses product regulatory, safety, and corporate social responsibility requirements, allowing companies to collaborate with their vendors and testing labs in real time. Its components include:

• CPSIA Guardian Manage custom product specifications, testing plans, and results to satisfy CPSIA requirements.
• RSL Guardian RSL service with up-to-date RSL libraries. Allows clients to customize libraries, create specifications, and test/certify against RSL requirements.
• Conflict Minerals Guardian Manage requirements associated with Dodd-Frank section 1502. Securely share documents across a supply chain to determine if products contain conflict minerals.
• CSR Guardian Track and measure corporate social responsibility programs, using a proprietary index, environmental policy tools, or industry-developed indexes.
• VPEPxchange Subscription-based collaboration platform that allows suppliers to author, publish, and share voluntary product environmental profiles.

Requirements

Requirements vary depending on which modules are used.

Cost

TEXbase Guardian is offered as subscription software.  Contact TEXbase for cost information.

Examples of Retailers That Use It

Patagonia

For More Information

Contact form: www.texbase.com/company/contact-us/