Evaluation of Causes and Effects of Fire and Other Safety Incidents in Readymade Garment Industry of Bangladesh

Samsul Islam; Mohammad Abdul Hannan Mia; Mohammad Zoynal Abedin

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Evaluation of Causes and Effects of Fire and Other Safety Incidents in Readymade Garment Industry of Bangladesh

Samsul Islam, Mohammad Abdul Hannan Mia, Mohammad Zoynal Abedin

Published in American Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (Volume 7, Issue 2)

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The readymade garment industry in Bangladesh is one of the foremost significant export-oriented industries, but it faces issues in ensuring worker safety. Industrial accidents threaten workplace safety, which is additionally amongst the foremost critical challenges in the world's industries. The objectives of this paper are to explore the numerous lethal incidents in the industry in Bangladesh and also explore the causes for these lethal incidents with the effect of those incidents. This paper aims to present a case study of the working conditions of readymade garment industries in Bangladesh and the case study presented past and running unsafe working conditions in the industry of violations of human rights and the high prevalence of injuries on duty by the workers. Differing kinds of causation in the recent decade have made the Bangladeshi garment industry ambiguous. Among 4,560 garment industries, 237 lethal incidents happened and that ratio was 5.2% during the last 31 years (1990-2020). Almost 237 lethal incidents, 94.09% incidents occurred by fire and only 1.27% incidents were caused by building collapse and 3.38% incidents were caused by boiler burst and another 1.27% by other different incidents. The total number of harmed people was 6,870 of which 1,689 people were injured and 5,181 people died, also the highest incident happened from 2011 to 2015 when 3,800 people were injured and 1,287 people died. This paper will investigate around for the causes of the various incidents and can expose the precautionary measure for those problems in the fashion industry which affected their sustainability and profitability.

Published in	American Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (Volume 7, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajmie.20220702.11
Page(s)	13-30
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Readymade Garment Industry of Bangladesh, Fire and Safety, Causes and Effects, Fire Risk Index (FRI), Building Collapse and Fire Hazards, Occupational Health and Safety (OHS), Risk and Safety Assessment

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Samsul Islam

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology, Gazipur, Bangladesh
Mohammad Abdul Hannan Mia

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology, Gazipur, Bangladesh
Mohammad Zoynal Abedin

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology, Gazipur, Bangladesh

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