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Foundations

Higg FEM Foundations is a set of foundational questions for businesses beginning to measure the environmental impact of their manufacturing.

You can complete the Higg FEM Foundations assessment as many times as you'd like. However, after you complete your first full Higg FEM assessment, you can no longer complete Higg FEM Foundations.

The purpose of Higg FEM Foundations is providing a light-weight assessment to help you get started measuring your environmental impact and tracking mitigation practices and prepare you for doing a full Higg FEM. 

 

Higg FEM Foundations does not:

  • Provide a score 
  • Include benchmarking 
  • Provide a completion certificate

Higg FEM Foundations does include:

  • Areas of Opportunities report
  • CSV download with question answers
  • Verification of results

Once you have purchased the Higg FEM or Foundations module, make sure to choose the right module to be allocated to your account:

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Once the module has been allocated, the user is redirected to the Facility Foundations dashboard, which resembles the Higg FEM dashboard. 

For guidance on the questions in the Higg FEM Foundations assessment, click here and view Appendix A. Higg FEM Foundations.

 

Can I complete Higg FEM Foundations yearly?

No. Facilities that have not completed the Higg FEM have the option to complete Higg FEM Foundations, but the goal of Higg FEM Foundations is to advance to Higg FEM after the first year. After you've completed Higg FEM Foundations once, you must advance to Higg FEM.

 

How is Higg FEM Foundations impacted by Higg FEM 4.0 changes?

New questions that are applicable to Higg FEM Foundations were added for Higg FEM 2024. Higg FEM Foundations continues to be an unscored, “miniature” version of the full Higg FEM comprising Level 1 questions only and is not included in the benchmarking set of assessments.

The Foundations version can be edited any number of times, but once a facility moves forward with a full Higg FEM, it is no longer possible to revert to Foundations.

Higg FEM 2024 updates can be found here: https://support.worldly.io/hc/en-us/articles/30553471781147-Summary-of-Updates-to-the-Higg-Higg FEM-4-0-For-Higg FEM-2024.