The factory-engagement model of the LABS Initiative strives to build sustainable, resilient, and inclusive organizations by acknowledging that fostering decent work environments enhance productivity and bring positive effects to workers and their families.
Our work within factories forms the foundation of our aspiration to promote safer working conditions and responsible sourcing practices.
By joining LABS Initiative, you take a leadership role in making workplaces safer by mitigating safety risks, thereby establishing yourself as a responsible and socially conscious organization. Improving a facility’s safety is a key driver for innovation. Keep factories competitive while improving customer visibility, your reputation, and operational efficiencies resulting from fewer incidents, downtime, and duplicative assessments.
Participate in LABS to gain access to: Assessments by independent Inspection Firms trained on LABS Standards by the LABS team; Safety Trainings; the LABS Helpline; remediation support; and follow-up visits by the LABS team.
By being a part of the LABS Initiative, you show your commitment to embed responsible sourcing in your supply chain and work with suppliers and other stakeholders to make your supply chain more sustainable.
On Joining the Initiative, you join a pre-competitive industry platform and thereby benefit from working with a harmonized standard and coordinated monitoring efforts. Such a collaboration will lead to greater efficiencies and improved leverage.
Under the LABS Initiative, in addition to applicable country laws, factories commit to adhering to a harmonized, country level standard around structural, fire, and electricity safety. Brands and retailers will collaborate on monitoring and calling to action, while sharing the monitoring and program costs.
The LABS Initiative methodology is built on internationally accepted structural, fire, and electrical building safety standards to establish a harmonized, country-based with rapid scalability.
The LABS Initiative will monitor remedial actions so that improvements are sustained through corrective action plans vetted by the Inspection Firms. Factory remedial experts will monitor the activities on ground, to make sure they are up to the standard.