Workers’ Safety in Bangladeshi Readymade Garments Industry
Shoron, A. A. Anisul Huq (2015)
Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu
2015
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http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201503092872
http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201503092872
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Since 1970’s Bangladesh is playing a very important role in the world of ready-made garments products and become the 2nd highest provider of ready-made garments products in Europe and United States. Almost 5 million workers work in this huge industry. But in recent few years this industry is facing threat by inadequate safety issue, bad working environment and demolishing workers’ rights.
The purpose of the thesis is to find out the reasons behind the unsafe Bangladesh RMG sector, the way we can change the situation and the role for different authorities; for example, role of government, role of different stockholders and role of buyers. Also some suggestion has made for the different authorities that can help to improve the situation
The theoretical part of the study focuses on relevant areas of work safety, work environment and workers’ right based on both national and international legislation.
A survey has been conducted by means of a questionnaire. All the questions were designed to get the garments workers’ knowledge about safety issues, working environment and their rights. Workers were chosen by the volunteers, they interviewed the every individual workers and described the questionnaire to them and collected responses immediately. All the data was gathered by e-mail from Bangladesh. Finally, the result was shown and analyzed through a table.
The result of the research reveled that still a lot of garments factories are not following the standard safety procedure and workers are not aware off the safety instruction. Workers are also not satisfied with their work load, salary, medical and other facilities provided by the factories.
Key words: Work safety, Working environment, workers’ right, Compensation and Re-mediation
The purpose of the thesis is to find out the reasons behind the unsafe Bangladesh RMG sector, the way we can change the situation and the role for different authorities; for example, role of government, role of different stockholders and role of buyers. Also some suggestion has made for the different authorities that can help to improve the situation
The theoretical part of the study focuses on relevant areas of work safety, work environment and workers’ right based on both national and international legislation.
A survey has been conducted by means of a questionnaire. All the questions were designed to get the garments workers’ knowledge about safety issues, working environment and their rights. Workers were chosen by the volunteers, they interviewed the every individual workers and described the questionnaire to them and collected responses immediately. All the data was gathered by e-mail from Bangladesh. Finally, the result was shown and analyzed through a table.
The result of the research reveled that still a lot of garments factories are not following the standard safety procedure and workers are not aware off the safety instruction. Workers are also not satisfied with their work load, salary, medical and other facilities provided by the factories.
Key words: Work safety, Working environment, workers’ right, Compensation and Re-mediation