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Bangladesh Factory Fire Highlights New Safety Concern
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Issues: Health & Safety Violations, Safety Accords, Workplace Health and Safety
Bangladesh Factory Fire Highlights New Safety Concern — Just-Style
Two crises, one flawed supply chain model: How the imbalance of power in global supply chains harms workers
Country: Bangladesh
Issues: Covid-19, Safety Accords, Workplace Health and Safety
On April 24, 2013, the Rana Plaza factory collapse claimed the lives of 1,137 garment workers in Bangladesh and injured thousands more. The tragedy, which was the deadliest disaster in a manufacturing facility in human history, put a spotlight on the grossly unsafe labor conditions plaguing Bangladesh’s garment sector and catalyzed fundamental reform. The international…