Ensure human rights
Read more about one of our focus areas in our sustainability promise: Ensure human rights.
The safety of textile workers is crucial to us at Lindex and we want to make sure that the workplaces in our whole value chain are safe and healthy. Lindex is part of the Accord which has made workplaces safer for millions of garments workers.
In response to the 2013 Rana Plaza tragedy, we were early signatories of the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety. In 2021, the International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment Industry was launched to extend the success of the Bangladesh Accord to other countries. Lindex signed this agreement in 2021 and renewed our commitment in 2023 by signing an updated version valid until 2026. Additionally, we have signed the Pakistan Accord, which includes all Cut-Make-Trim (CMT) facilities, home textiles, fabric, and knit accessories suppliers.
The International Accord for Health and Safety in the Garment and Textile Industry (International Accord) is a legally binding agreement between garment brands and trade unions. It establishes a robust, industry-wide compliance and accountability system to ensure worker health and safety. The program promotes safe workplaces through independent safety inspections, training programs, and a complaint mechanism to safeguard workers against occupational health and safety risks.
The factories are audited with three different inspections on fire safety, electricity and building safety such as calculations on the carrying potential of a building. After each inspection, a corrective action plan with deadlines is set. When the actions are completed they are inspected to make sure that all corrections have been made. Some of the most common violations to fire and building safety found in the Accord audits include missing fire doors, automatic sprinklers or fire alarm systems.