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Accord signatories publish report on safety hazards at Bangladesh factories

  

Witness signatories to the Bangladesh Accord have published a report showing that deadly safety hazards remain at factories producing for major apparel brands and retailers.

The report ‘Unfinished Business: Outstanding safety hazards at garment factories, which shows that the Accord must be extended and expanded’, is based on a review of the Accord’s publicly available data on safety progress, and enumerates uncorrected safety hazards at factories producing for 12 leading brands covered by the Accord, including H&M, C&A and PVH (Tommy Hilfiger).

The data shows that a lot of progress has been made to make factories safer, with a majority of safety hazards being corrected. But the report also shows that weakening the legal accountability of the Accord agreement would risk the lives of innumerable workers as many important safety fixes have yet to be completed or verified. Many of the safety hazards still present in factories are the most costly ones to remediate. Brands and retailers must ensure that the factories they are sourcing from have the financial means to complete these renovations.

The witness signatories to the Accord -- Clean Clothes Campaign, International Labor Rights Forum/Global Labor Justice, Maquila Solidarity Network, and Worker Rights Consortium -- demonstrate that if the Accord agreement is not extended and expandedcircumstances of factories with unresolved safety problems will get worse, in absence of the same legally binding requirements and incentives;voluntary initiatives will replace the Accord’s safety program, leaving companies accountable to no one but themselves, which has been a recipe for failure in the past and improvements to safety in other garment producing countries will be delayed or not carried out at all.

 
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