Harvard University and American clothing company Levi Strauss & Co declared a collaboration with the New America think tank to develop a blockchain factory safety system, Reuters reported on January. 24.

The new system aims to eventually replace external factory health and safety auditors with a self-reporting infrastructure by the employees. Dr. Eileen McNeely, director of Harvard T.H. Chan’s sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise said, “For the last 25 years, work in supply chains has been monitored primarily by audits... A distributed system of inquiry on the blockchain that goes right to the supply offers a brand new solution.”

Three Levi Strauss’ factories situated in Mexico using 5,000 employees can reportedly be the primary to use the system this year, another pilot is planned for the following year. The system can place an annual safety survey on a blockchain.

The survey can reportedly use an index developed by the Harvard T.H. Chan school of Public Health. Allison price, executive director of Blockchain Trust Accelerator at New America, said that putting the survey result on a blockchain implies that “the results can never be manipulated.”

The blockchain are allegedly provided by ConsenSys, the blockchain company supported by Joseph Lubin, one among Ethereum’s (ETH) original authors. As per Reuters, the event of the system is funded through a grant from U. S. State Department.

As Top Market Group recently rumored, recent layoffs at Consensys affected around 10 % of its workers, as well as staff each in support and technical roles. Last Dec, reports surfaced that state that the corporate was near to lay off anywhere between 50 and 60 % of its workers.

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