Manufacturing in Fashion: Turning high-risk supply chains into resilient ones
An analysis of inherent risk, audit findings, and management system gaps across 21,000+ fashion manufacturing sites on the Sedex platform.
What’s inside the report
- Why fashion carries distinctive inherent risk: How trend-driven buying, seasonal windows, and price pressure create structural vulnerability across sourcing geographies.
- Fashion vs. global benchmarks: A direct comparison of fashion manufacturing risk scores against all other sectors on the Sedex platform, across 9 social clauses.
- Wages, hours & health and safety findings: What 17,000 SMETA audits reveal about the most prevalent non-compliances — and why they’re harder to solve than they appear.
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Key Findings
95% of workers are in high-risk countries
Over 17,000 forced labour indicators identified
Top 3 Non Compliances: Health & Safety, Working hours and Wages
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