WRAP Certification

WRAP — Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production — certifies individual sewing and cut-and-sew factories, not brands or fabrics, against 12 principles covering compliance with local labor law, no forced or child labor, reasonable working hours, fair wages, health and safety conditions, and environmental and customs practices. An independent monitor audits the facility annually, and the certification is renewed, or pulled, on that same cycle.

This is the compliance seal buyers see referenced on the sourcing pages of major blank brands — Gildan and Hanes both run WRAP-certified cut-and-sew facilities across their supply networks — and it tells you the specific plant that sewed the garment passed a labor and safety audit, independent of whatever fabric or dye claims the same garment also carries.

Because the certificate belongs to the factory, a single brand can source from a mix of WRAP-certified and non-certified plants across its catalog, so the claim only applies to blanks actually produced at the certified facility — worth confirming with the supplier rather than assuming it blankets the whole brand.

Buyers often lump WRAP in with organic or eco certifications since it shows up in the same "sustainability" conversation. It has nothing to do with fiber content, dyes, or recycled material — WRAP is purely a social-compliance and workplace-safety audit of the sewing facility, and it pairs with, rather than substitutes for, a fabric-level certification like GOTS or GRS.