We Strengthened our commitment to safe, fair, and responsible supply chain practices by deepening our engagement with the Life & Building Safety (LABS) Initiative, enrolling 120 factories across key sourcing regions. This initiative supports our efforts to strengthen safety management systems and contributes to improved working conditions across our supply chain. We also expanded our engagement into the soft home category in India, helping extend LABS’ internationally aligned safety framework to additional product categories. Our partnership with LABS continues to reinforce Target’s broader responsible sourcing goals as we work collaboratively to elevate safety, strengthen resilience, and support the wellbeing of workers across our global supply chain.
Safety is—and will remain—nonnegotiable for VF, and we view it as a baseline expectation for all of our suppliers. The LABS program has elevated our internal focus on Critical Life Safety by bringing strong teams and deep expertise to the work. Together with industry peers, we’ve been able to leverage our collective influence to drive sustainable change in key sourcing regions, and we’re proud to support LABS’ continued progress and shared goals.
Collaboration is at the heart of the Life and Building Safety (LABS) program and fundamental to its success across every country where they operate. As we continue our engagement, we remain focused on working with others to foster a culture of safety and high safety standards throughout supply chains. Our work through LABS goes beyond compliance; it builds skills, strengthens systems, and strives to continuously improve worker safety. Impacting more than 1.3 million workers to date underscores what is possible when collaboration is paired with sustained engagement.
Our partnership with LABS has allowed us to enroll more than 200 factories in a program that identifies and remediates worker safety risks. The initiative’s focus on fire, building and electrical safety management and emphasis on sectoral collaboration has helped us scale our efforts and meaningfully address an urgent need in many apparel factories across the world.