Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production
by Russ Jowell (rjowell@wrapcompliance.org) The beginning of 2013 has brought us yet another tragic reminder of why fire safety is so vitally important for garment factories. The incident in question is a fire that broke out on January 26 at the Smart Export Garments factory in Bangladesh that claimed the lives of at least 7 [...]
Posted on February 22nd, 2013 by wrapadmin
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WRAP’s President and CEO Avedis Seferian headed to South Asia to check in on our organization’s compliance activities in the region. Seferian worked in Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka, with a busy schedule that saw him traveling to seven cities in two weeks. Seferian ran several WRAP awareness programs in all three nations. In Bangladesh, [...]
Posted on May 9th, 2012 by wrapadmin
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On March 6, 2012, WRAP’s Saifullah Khawaja, Director of the Bangladesh Office, conducted yet another fire safety training course. The one-day training course was launched in 2011 as a way to help Bangladeshi factories prevent fires and improve fire safety measures, facilities, drills and planning. The course has been taught multiples times in Bangladesh and [...]
Posted on April 23rd, 2012 by wrapadmin
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We have a multi-cultural multi-lingual staff here at WRAP. Additionally, because we are a small organization, our staff members must often step out of their comfort zones and traditional roles to confront new challenges. Monica Escobar-Hertzoff, our Manager of Compliance and Training for the Americas, is used to such challenges. A native Spanish speaker (she’s [...]
Posted on March 19th, 2012 by wrapadmin
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