【正文】 rker39。7. Definition of child: Any person less than 15 years of age, unless local minimum age law stipulates a higher age for work or mandatory schooling, in which case the higher age would apply. If, however, local minimum age law is set at 14 years of age in accordance with developing?country exceptions under ILO Convention 138, the lower age will apply.8. Definition of young worker: Any worker over the age of a child as defined above and under the age of 18.9. Definition of child labour: Any work by a child younger than the age(s) specified in the above definition of a child, except as provided for by ILO Remendation 146.10. Definition of forced labour: All work or service that is extracted from any person under the menace of any penalty for which said person has not offered him/herself voluntarily or for which such work or service is demanded as a means of repayment of debt.11. Definition of remediation of children: All necessary support and actions to ensure the safety, health, education, and development of children who have been subjected to child labour, as defined above, and are dismissed.12. Definition of homeworker: A person who carries out work for a pany under direct or indirect contract, other than on a pany39。Criterion: The pany shall not engage in or support the use of forced labour, nor shall personnel be required to lodge 39。 or identity papers upon mencing employment with the pany.3. HEALTH AND SAFETYCriteria: The pany, bearing in mind the prevailing knowledge of the industry and of any specific hazards, shall provide a safe and healthy working environment and shall take adequate steps to prevent accidents and injury to health arising out of, associated with or occurring in the course of work, by minimizing, so far as is reasonably practicable, the causes of hazards inherent in the working environment. The pany shall appoint a senior management representative responsible for the health and safety of all personnel, and accountable for the implementation of the Health and Safety elements of this standard. The pany shall ensure that all personnel receive regular and recorded health and safety training, and that such training is repeated for new and reassigned personnel. The pany shall establish systems to detect, avoid or respond to potential threats to the health and safety of all personnel. The pany shall provide, for use by all personnel, clean bathrooms, access to potable water, and, if appropriate, sanitary facilities for food storage. The pany shall ensure that, if provided for personnel, dormitory facilities are clean, safe, and meet the basic needs of the personnel. RIGHT TOCOLLECTIVE BARGAININGCriteria: The pany shall respect the right of all personnel to form and join trade unions of their choice and to bargain collectively. The pany shall, in those situations in which the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining are restricted under law, facilitate parallel means of independent and free association and bargaining for all such personnel. The pany shall ensure that representatives of such personnel are not the subject of discrimination and that such representatives have access to their members in the workplace.5. DISCRIMINATIONCriteria: the pany shall also ensure that wages and benefits are rendered in full pliance with all applicable laws and that remuneration is rendered either in cash or check form, in a manner convenient to workers. The pany shall ensure that labour?only contracting arrangements and false apprenticeship schemes are not undertaken in an effort to avoid fulfilling its obligations to personnel und