Dear Readers,
As we step into 2026, we would like to sincerely thank our partners, participating factories, and collaborators for their continued commitment to strengthening life and building safety across the sector. The progress achieved over the past year was possible because of sustained collaboration and shared ownership of safety outcomes.
Over the last quarter, LABS continued to deepen its engagement across India, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Indonesia – supporting factories through assessments, trainings, and follow-up visits and reaching over 1.3-million workers with practical safety awareness and capacity-building efforts. An important milestone this year was the graduation of 200 factories, reflecting growing maturity in factory-led safetymanagement systems.
Alongside factory-level interventions, LABS continued to advance its sector-level safety mandate. In India, we closed 2025 by partnering with the Tiruppur Exporters’ Association to convene an industry workshop focused on strengthening the collective understanding of life and building-safety risk and reinforcing the role of industry leadership in sustaining safety improvements beyond individual factories.
As we look ahead, LABS will focus on strengthening postgraduation engagement, supporting alignment with national safety frameworks, and deepening industry partnerships to embed safety as a shared responsibility across supply chains. We look forward to continued collaboration in the year ahead as we work together to build safer, more resilient workplaces.
