A collaborative platform has been launched in India aimed at promoting safety and sustainable development in the apparel and footwear industry in the country.
- The initiative, launched by the Life and Building Safety Initiative (LABS), is called Platform for Safety in Apparel and Footwear Industry (PSAFI).
The Initiative: The PSAFI aims to provide a trusted, neutral space for industry stakeholders to come together, discuss, and exchange ideas and insights on addressing safety issues in the sector.
- It seeks to accelerate action on safety and facilitate coordination and alignment across initiatives with a focus on promoting a preventative safety culture and cooperation between governments, employers, workers, and their organisations.
- The PSAFI was launched at an event last week in New Delhi. The event brought together experts, stakeholders, and representatives from industry, the government and workers’ organisations with the aim of charting a path towards a safer and more sustainable future for the apparel and footwear industry in India.
Other Details: The PSAFI will provide a neutral space for stakeholders to come together, exchange ideas, and drive coordinated actions on safety issues.
- It aims to foster a preventative safety culture, enable effective consultation and cooperation among stakeholders, and improve the management of building safety risks in the industry.
What They Said:
We are excited to launch PSAFI as a collaborative platform that will bring together key stakeholders to engage on worker safety and contribute towards improved safety in the apparel, textiles and footwear industry in India. For us, some of the key objectives of the platform include identifying opportunities to scale up interventions, improving management of building safety risks, transparency in reporting, promoting women's empowerment and driving positive changes in safe working conditions in factories and industrial parks across the country and the manufacturing sector.
— Pramit Chanda
Spokesperson
Life and Building Safety Initiative
