WRAP Audits

As an accredited Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production (WRAP) monitor with over 10 years experience, SGS is ideally placed to assist you in conducting a WRAP audit. This will verify your compliance with WRAP principles on lawful, humane and ethical manufacturing.

WRAP is an independent, non-profit corporation dedicated to the promotion and certification of lawful, humane, and ethical manufacturing throughout the world.

Set up in 2000, WRAP is the world’s largest labor and environmental certification program for labor-intensive consumer products manufacturing and processing. WRAP is supported by 25 international trade associations, including the International Apparel Federation, which represents 36 national associations and over 150,000 individual companies.

The WRAP principles cover basic standards that address labor practices, factory conditions, and environmental and customs compliance. They consist of 12 elements:

• Compliance with laws and workplace regulations
• Prohibition of forced labor
• Prohibition of child labor
• Prohibition of harassment or abuse
• Compensation and benefits
• Hours of work
• Freedom of association and collective bargaining
• Health and safety
• Prohibition of discrimination
• Environment
• Customs compliance
• Security

The WRAP certification process

Certification may be granted for six months or one to two years, depending on the final audit results and the length of time that the facility has held certification successfully.

SGS has WRAP accredited auditors in most major sourcing countries and we are able to provide consistent monitoring and reporting to support certification recommendations. With over 10 years’ experience of undertaking WRAP audits, we can guide you through the process while ensuring that professional audit standards are maintained.

Discover how WRAP auditing from SGS can help you and your suppliers maintain compliance with ethical trading requirements.

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