Life And Building Safety (LABS) Initiative has launched a Helpline in Vietnam and India for the factories associated with the program in both countries. The Helpline provides direct access to…
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IDH launches Life And Building Safety (LABS) Initiative in India and Vietnam
IDH has launched Life And Building Safety (LABS) Initiative in India and Vietnam, to mitigate preventable structural, fire and electrical safety risks in apparel and footwear industries. Major brands including…
Some 3.124 cars on the road for a whole year, electricity to turn on 417.181 laptops for a year, 207 filled Olympic swimming pools, and 1.3 million USD in savings.
Productivity and worker well-being improvements are showing in the first of a group of factories to have graduated in the IDH apparel program in Vietnam: the Race to the Top.
Apparel program supports shift in how workers engage with factory management
Recently the first iteration of factories have graduated from the Race to the Top program, and a shift has been identified in how the factory’s supervisors treat the workers, how…
Protecting the environment from hazardous chemicals
The Race to the Top program of IDH in Vietnam (apparel) is working with the Vietnamese Government, through the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, to contextualize the Zero…
Scaling a proven approach with the Apparel Impact Institute. The recently created Apparel Impact Institute (AII) is modeling its commitment to market led scaling of sustainable practices by jumping into…