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Since it’s based on widely adopted rating systems, Good Measures helps brands become more transparent and provides a credible solution for communicating progress.
Good Measures considers a range of factors—such as your brand’s size, category, product range, and more—to determine what industry aligned best practices apply to your brand. Additionally, where you’re at in your sustainability journey may affect the questions you answer.
Certain initiatives may contribute to your score on several issues. For example, GOTS-certified products can contribute to points in issues such as Packaging, Non-Textile Waste, and Hazardous Chemicals.
The ratings methodology takes into account how different materials have varying impacts on the environment and animals, and categorises them accordingly.
Good On You incorporates a number of living wage benchmarks into our methodology, but we recognise that not all regions are covered by existing benchmarks.
Report product proportions based on your product range over the past 12 month period, not anticipated production.
As you’re updating your rating, you’ll see references to the three production stages, which are based on these industry standard definitions. Understanding the different stages is important when answering questions about sourcing, production, traceability, and certifications.
Good On You’s methodology includes the most commonly used, highest risk commodities.
Good On You’s methodology takes into account how different ingredients have varying impacts on the environment, and categorises them accordingly.
Certain standards or assessments—including CDP Climate, and CDP Water—stand in entirely for other issues.
For brands covered by the FTI, their score will be factored into their Good On You people rating.
Good Measures makes it easy to update your rating and submit it directly to Good On You. Simply follow these three steps.
Good Measures lets you dive deep into your existing Good On You rating, the source of all the information you will see pre-filled when you’re reviewing and making updates to issues.
Good On You will only consider publicly available evidence to back up your updates. This ensures transparency and empowers better consumer choices.
Setting targets and disclosing your progress towards meeting them demonstrates your commitment to managing your impacts. However, your Good On You rating is primarily based on your current sustainability performance.
After your rating review is complete, you’ll receive an email with feedback on your updates. Here’s what you need to know if your evidence wasn’t accepted this time.
You can submit updates for review at any time. However, you’ll get the most out of the rating review if you wait until you’ve made meaningful improvements in your draft score.