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9 Mar 2014

Author:
Ibrahim Hossain Ovi, Dhaka Tribune

Accord-Alliance inspection team cites three concerns with workers safety [Bangladesh]

Accord and Alliance have identified three concerns related with workers’ safety in the Bangladesh apparel factories…exceeding the load-bearing of floors, flawed electrical wires and piling of finished goods in the stairs and floors…suggested conducting maintenance of electrical wires, properly managing of loads on each floor and installing fire doors...a review panel asked two factories - Softex and Fame Sweater - to suspend production…directed Jeans Care…take immediate steps to improve safety standards…Accord, a platform of 150 European retailers...inspection involving fire and structural integrity...The issue…came under the spotlight…following the catastrophic incident at the Rana Plaza building collapse that killed over 1,100 workers.

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