…This report demonstrates that improvements are not being made in areas including fire safety, child labour, and worker safety and health…Some of this deterioration in working conditions may be attributed to the rapid growth of the industry. However, industry growth need and should not result in poor working conditions…Two themes—fire safety and worker safety and health—rise to the top in this report because significant numbers of factories are failing to comply with the law and because assessments show that compliance is falling…The industry’s chronically non-compliant factories need to be held accountable, and non-compliance on critical cross-cutting issues highlighted in this report needs to be addressed…This report covers 152 garment and three (3) footwear factories…