Becoming a WRAP certified facility involves much more than simply passing an audit. We take a collaborative approach to social compliance certification in which we work with our facilities to ensure that they remain in compliance with our 12 Principles. This does require, however, that all of our facilities actively engage in the process themselves and see to it that effective management systems are maintained to ensure compliance requirements are met.
Click here to read Frequently Asked Questions about our certification program.
THE CERTIFICATION PROCESS |
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1. Application
A production facility submits basic information to WRAP and pays a registration fee of US$1195.
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2. Pre-Audit Self-Assessment
Facilities complete a pre-audit self-assessment of their facility to show that they
have been utilizing socially-compliant practices for a minimum of 90 days (for new facilities; facilities seeking re-certification are expected to have been compliant throughout their preceding certification period). We offer the following resources for facilities to use during their Pre-Audit Self-Assessment: |
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3. Monitoring
After submitting their pre-audit self-assessment, the facility selects a WRAP-accredited monitoring organization to audit the facility against WRAP's 12 Principles. The audit must be successfully passed within 6 months of paying the registration fee to avoid having to re-register.
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4. EvaluationWRAP will review the monitor's audit report and decide whether or not to certify the facility. If WRAP decides not to issue a certification, the facility will be notified of the corrections that need to be made and the monitoring firm will conduct an additional inspection. If the facility does not satisfactorily implement the recommendations within the original six-month period, it must pay the registration fee again. |
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5. CertificationThere are three levels of WRAP certification – Platinum, Gold and Silver. The certificate issued to a facility is determined by WRAP and depends on the extent to which the audit indicates full compliance and management commitment to the WRAP Principles.
*All certified facilities are subject to random, unannounced |
WRAP certified facilities must fully comply with WRAP’s 12 Principles during their certification period or they may be subject to decertification. A facility may be decertified under the following circumstances:
• | Violations involving Zero Tolerance issues (see below) |
• | Failure to allow auditors to conduct a Post-Certification Audit (PCA) |
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Refusal to go through a remediation process to correct non-compliances found during a PCA |
• | Failure to correct non-compliances found during a PCA in a timely manner |
If at any time WRAP learns that any factory in the WRAP program is actively participating in or associated with any of the below Zero Tolerance issues, the factory will be automatically decertified (if applicable) and banned from the WRAP program in all capacities without the option to return nor be certified in the future.
• | Deliberate and ongoing human rights violations including: | |
○ | Child labor, including the worst forms of child labor (slavery, forced labor, trafficking, serfdom, debt bondage, prostitution, pornography, work that involves children in illicit activity, or work that is likely to harm the child physically or morally) | |
○ | Forced labor (bonded labor, not allowing workers to leave at their own will, forced to work overtime) | |
○ | Inhumane treatment (use of threats of physical harm or extreme intimidation, corporal punishment, mental or physical coercion) | |
• | Unethical actions that encourage the auditor(s) to compromise their integrity | |
• | Threatening physical harm towards the audit team | |
• | False representation of certificate or audit report (i.e. altered or fake certificates or reports) | |
• | False representation of production processes (i.e. hiding full/partial production floors and/or processes from auditor) |