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Social responsibility at Hayleys Fabric PLC covers everything from how we treat the people who work directly for us to how we engage with the brands, suppliers and communities connected to our business. We’ve organised it into five areas, supplier and customer relationships, corporate social responsibility, community relationships, our engaged workforce, and health, safety and wellbeing, because each involves a genuinely different set of people and a different kind of responsibility.

What connects them is a simple principle: the people closest to our operations, whether they’re on the factory floor, in a supplier’s facility, or living in the villages around our mills, should be better off for our presence there, not merely unaffected by it. That shows up differently in each area. With suppliers and customers, it means transparency and accountability built into every relationship. With our own workforce, it means investing in people who mostly come from the communities immediately around our operations. And with those wider communities, it means sustained programmes in education, healthcare and local development rather than one-off gestures timed for good publicity.

None of these five areas sits still, either. Supplier standards get revised as certifications evolve, community priorities shift as local needs change, and workforce expectations move as Sri Lanka’s labour market does. Treating social performance as something to actively manage, rather than a fixed set of policies written once and left unchanged, is part of what keeps these programmes relevant to the people they’re meant to serve rather than outdated the moment circumstances shift.

Supplier and Customer Relationship

We hold our supplier network to certification-based standards covering traceability, labour ethics and environmental compliance, while working directly with global fashion and athleisure brands to co-develop fabric that meets their evolving sustainability and technical requirements.

Corporate Social Responsibility

Our CSR strategy, Breath, runs in two phases centred on ocean conservation awareness and school-based environmental education, delivered in partnership with Sri Lanka's Central Environmental Authority and mapped against the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Community Relationship

Across education, healthcare, employee welfare and localised aid, our community programmes are anchored by the long-term Sathdiyawara–Rathmalgahawewa development project, built around school renovations, educational support and assistance for local small and medium enterprises.

Engaged Team

With roughly 75% of our workforce drawn from the communities around our operations, we invest in leadership development, recognition programmes and two-way communication channels that give employees a genuine voice, not just instructions passed down from management.

Health, Safety and Wellbeing

Our Occupational Health and Safety Management System is certified to ISO 45001, backed by regular audits, continuous training, and wellness programmes that treat mental health as seriously as physical safety on a demanding production floor.

Taken together, these five areas describe a company whose social impact doesn’t stop at the factory gate. Suppliers, customers, employees and neighbouring communities all show up somewhere in how we measure our social performance, which is part of why we report against it as rigorously as we report on emissions or water use. Explore each area above to see the specific programmes, partnerships and standards behind these commitments, from ISO 45001 certification to the Sathdiyawara–Rathmalgahawewa project.

It’s worth saying plainly: none of these five areas exists to generate a good headline. A blood donation campaign or a school renovation project matters most to the people directly involved, long after any press coverage has moved on, which is why we measure these programmes by continuity, whether they’re still running next year, not by how much attention they generated when they launched.