Sixty readymade garment factories in Bangladesh, suppliers of European retailers and brands, have completed all remediation work suggested by the Accord on Fire and Building Safety and are waiting for the recognition from the European buyers’ platform.

According to senior officials from Accord, once the factories’ claim are verified, the names would be released. The Accord received information from approximately 60 factories in which all remediation items were completed but only two of them were verified and accordingly received recognition letters from the chief safety inspector of Accord, said a recent report on advisory board meeting of the platform. The two factories are Concord Fashion Export and Jeacon, both are housed in the same building at South Salna in Gazipur.

The two factories received the recognition on May 2015 nearly two years after the launch of Accord. The Accord steering committee decision on the remediation completion plan and associated allocation of additional resources, staff, and budget towards completion of remediation at the inspected factories were discussed in the advisory board.

According to the Accord update, it had decided to hire 39 additional engineers to increase the follow-up and verification inspections by Accord engineers to 16 teams in the field per day, visiting 32 factories per day.