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Actually some things have changed…

Marking the third anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse

Garrett Brown MPH, CIH
May 11, 2016
April 24th marked the third anniversary of the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Savar, Bangladesh, that killed 1,138 garment workers in a moment and injured 2,500 others, some disabled for life.
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Progress report: Bangladesh Accord has completed 800+ inspections

July 18, 2014

The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh announces publication of factory inspection reports: Just over one year ago in May 2013, ready-made garment (RMG) industry global brands and retailers and two global unions and their national RMG affiliates signed an unprecedented agreement to make RMG factories safe in Bangladesh.


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Bangladesh factory fire

Accord response to Reuters’ article June 24, 2014 “Insight – Inspection tensions add to Bangladesh garment industry’s woes”

July 4, 2014

The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh (the Accord) has taken note of Reuters’ article of June 24, 2014 titled “Insight – Inspection tensions add to Bangladesh garment industry’s woes."


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NIOSH chief at Safety 2014:

"How can we achieve global safety sustainability?"
June 13, 2014

Remarks by John Howard, M.D., NIOSH Director, at ASSE Professional Development Conference and Exposition on June 10, 2014: Just over a year ago, on April 24, 2013, Rana Plaza, an eight-story commercial building in Greater Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, collapsed. The death toll has reached more than 1,000.


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Bangladesh OHS Links – Media articles & reports

June 10, 2014

Selected articles on the first anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse.


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Bangladesh factory fire

Unsafe working conditions common in global apparel industry

AIHce 2014 speaker says ruthless competition is behind problem
June 5, 2014

In his Wednesday AIHce 2014 General Session address at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Scott Nova, the executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium in Washington, D.C., detailed the hazardous working conditions in the garment manufacturing industry, particularly in Bangladesh, where economic and political pressures have exacerbated longstanding safety problems to a greater extent than in other countries.


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List of possible projects to strengthen workplace health and safety in Bangladesh
May 29, 2014

On May 7th, representatives of the organizations listed below heard presentations from the Embassy of Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Accord for Fire and Building Safety, the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety, and the U.S. Department of Labor’s International Labor Affairs Bureau on ongoing efforts to improve safety and health in the 3,600 cut-and-sew factories that make up Bangladesh’s “ready made garment” industry.


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A cultural divide over aid to Bangladesh factory victims

Davejohnson
Dave Johnson
November 25, 2013

On one side we have the Europeans. On the other, the United States. The different approaches the two are taking to provide aid to Bangladesh factory workers says a good bit about the cultural differences involved.


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Bangladesh passes new factory worker safety law

Does it go far enough?
July 23, 2013

In the face of international criticism over the dangerous conditions in its garment factories, Bangladeshi has passed a new law aimed at improving conditions – although the export-oriented factories which make up the bulk of Bangladesh’ garment industry are exempted from a major provision.


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Walmart, other retailers refuse to sign Bangladesh factory safety pact

“Our safety plan meets or exceeds proposal”
May 21, 2013

Walmart and an industry group representing many U.S. retailers say they will not join an international pact intended to improve factory conditions in Bangladesh’s garment industry – although many global retailers have signed the agreement.


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