2020 Archive

As a member of the RJC (Responsible Jewelry Council), Casting House is committed to the upmost responsible business practices, in every aspect of our work. 

Responsible Business Practices

• Anti Money Laundering & Finance of Terrorism – Casting House aknowledges that, while majority of businesses in the jewelry industry act responsibly and in accordance with the law, there are companies that are taking part in criminal activity and/or financing of terrorism.  We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that we do not conduct business with any of these companies, including an Anti Money Laundering Policy.  All employees at Casting House are trained to identify and report suspicious behavior that could lead to money laundering or financing of terrorism, and will do so at the earliest signs.
  
  
• Anti Bribery Policy – Casting House and its employees follow a strict anti-bribery policy to prevent them from accepting bribes and the facilitation of payments.   Employees of Casting House are trained to know the many different forms of bribery and facilitation of payments.
  
  
• KYC (Know Your Counterparty).– Casting House has a specific policy to check every customer and supplier that it deals with, to ensure that the nature of their business is in line with ours and that we can comfortably establish that they are not involved in criminal activity, such as money laundering or the financing of terrorism.

Health, Safety and Security – Casting House strives to provide their employees with a healthy, safe and secure place to work.

• Health – We do many things here at Casting House to ensure that our employees have a healthy place to work, from providing them with filtered drinking water to ensuring the air they breath is as clean as possible. 
  
• Safety – Casting House is very conscious of employee safety, as well as customers that may be on-site.

• We provide every employee with safety gear
• We provide additional safety gear at the request of our employees
• We have provided extensive training on using safety gear and handling chemicals used in the manufacturing process
• Security – Casting House strives to provide a secure place of employment for all of our employees, as well as to ensure that our customers’ goods are secure. Our insurance policy covers everything from workplace injuries to customers’ goods in our possession to our employees on sales trips.

Employee, Human & Labor Rights and  Working Conditions

• Casting House is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on any basis whatsoever, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, union membership, political affilition, marital status, pregnancy status, physical appearance, HIV status, or age.  
  
• Not only does Casting House provide a suitable workplace for any human being, we also have policies that are conscious of our supply chain.  Whether we are paying a fair wage to our employees or we are sourcing diamonds only from conflict-free areas of the world, human rights are very important to us. 
  
• Casting House provides a working environment that its employees can feel comfortable in and we are heavily against any form of harrassment in the workplace.  
  
• No forms of child labor or forced labor is used at Casting House.  We are also conscious about the sourcing of raw materials and suppliers and do everything in our effort to ensure that we are using responsibly sourced materials, so as to not contribute in any sense or area of the world to child or forced labor.

Responsible Sourcing Methods

• Diamonds – It is very important to Casting House that we do everything in our power to not contribute to the conflicts in sourcing diamonds. 
• Kimberly Process and System of Warranties – Casting House follows the Kimberley Process Scheme to ensure that all diamonds we supply to our customers are conflict-free and only use suppliers that can provide guarantees to such effect.  Casting House ensures that all of our diamond vendors provide a system of warranties, to ensure that the diamonds they are supplying us are conflict-free.
  
  
• Metal – Casting House is and always has been environmentally conscious in everything that we do and it strives to use 100% recycled metals when possible and available. We are committed to ensuring that all metals are conflict-free (one reason we strive to use 100% recycled metals from local/domestic refineries) and we hold ourselves up to standards such as the SRSP (Signet Responsible Sourcing Protocol) and Dodd Frank, in the applicable senses. 
• 100% Recycled Metals – All of our gold, platinum and silver products used in manufacturing come from recycled sources.  

Environmental Policy – Casting House does everything in its power to be environmentally friendly; such has been a priority of ours for a very long time.  From ensuring that all of our metals are generated from recycled sources (when possible) to eliminating as much as waste throughout our manufacturing processes to recycling we implement eco-friendly policies into our processes as often as we can! 

Synthetic Diamonds – Casting House has methods of inspection and policies in place to ensure that undisclosed synthetic diamonds do not contaminate our supply of diamonds. 

• First of all, any employee that touches diamonds at Casting House are trained in our policies and procedures for diamond purchasing, supplying and internal movement.
• We purchase all diamonds from trusted sources that can verify the origin of their diamonds.
• We test 100% of all diamonds purchased from suppliers for undisclosed synthetic diamonds.
• We have performed internal risk assessments of our diamond movement in manufacturing, to identify any high risk points of contamination and have put policies into place to lower that risk.
• Casting House keeps their inventory of diamonds in its own location, separate from any customer goods, to ensure that there are no possibilities of being mixed with undisclosed stones while in our possession and in Casting House manufacturing.
• Synthetic disclosures are printed on all invoices that diamonds are included on, to ensure our customers are aware.