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The Rana Plaza collapse (also referred to as the Savar building collapse or the collapse of Rana Plaza) occurred on 24 April 2013, when the eight-storey "Rana Plaza" commercial building collapsed due to a structural failure. The rescue team's search ended on 13 May 2013, with a confirmed death toll of 1,134. [ 2]
117–124 dead [ 1][ 2] 200+ injured. The 2012 Dhaka garment factory fire broke out on 24 November 2012, in the Tazreen Fashion factory in the Ashulia district on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. [ 3] At least 117 people were confirmed dead in the fire, and over 200 were injured, [ 1] making it the deadliest factory fire in the nation's ...
On Monday, dozens of retailers signed an accord aimed at tightening safety standards in factories in Bangladesh, a move that came in response to an April factory collapse that killed more than ...
The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh (the Accord) was signed on 15 May 2013. It is a five-year independent, legally binding Global Framework Agreement between global brands, retailers, and trade unions designed to build a safe and healthy Bangladeshi Ready Made Garment (RMG) Industry. The agreement was created in the immediate ...
The clock is ticking on the Bangladesh Accord on Fire Building Safety. The Accord came to be a landmark stance on garment worker safety, signed in 2013 following the Rana Plaza factory collapse ...
The case study traces the history of factory safety in the garment industry from the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in New York in 1911 to the factory fire at Tazreen Fashions in Bangladesh in 2012 and culminates with the collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013, the single deadliest safety failure in the history of the garment industry.
By Julhas Alam DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Amid the ash, broken glass and melted sewing machines at what is left of the Tazreen Fashions Ltd. factory, there are piles of blue, red and off-white children ...
Benetton Group S.r.l. ( Italian pronunciation: [benetˈton]) [ 1] is a global fashion brand based in Ponzano Veneto, Italy, founded in 1965. Benetton Group has a network of about 5,000 stores worldwide. [ 2] It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Benetton family 's holding company Edizione.