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Despite having comprehensive legal provisions, the spectre of fire hazards looms large in the city of Dhaka. It is high time we scrutinise the roles of the owners of these buildings and crowded markets ....
The Manipur High Court directed the chief inspector of factories and boilers cum director, Trade, Commerce and Industries to file an affidavit by the next date of hearing, on December 15. ....
Factory Fire Reveals Bangladesh’s Child Labor Problem Child workers were among the casualties of the July 8 fire, shedding terrible light on an all-too-common problem. By July 21, 2021 A firefighter communicates with his colleagues on a walkie talkie inside the burnt food and beverage factory in Rupganj, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, July 9, 2021. Credit: AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu Advertisement On the afternoon of Thursday, July 8, a fire broke out on the ground floor of the Hashem Food & Beverages factory at Rupganj, an industrial district lying at the outskirts of Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka. Experts have pointed to the illegal storage of chemicals and plastics on the ground floor of the building as the reason behind the fire’s rapid spread. In the aftermath of the inferno, which engulfed the six-story building, more than 50 people are known to have been killed, and many others left injured or unaccounted for. ....
The Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship found 1,178 such offenses punishable by imprisonment and that a median MSME with 100 workers has 452 compliances, has to maintain 50 labour registers, etc ....
Labour Ministry forms panels to review standards under OSH&WC Code SECTIONS Share Synopsis The committee on factories and dock works will be chaired by R K Elangovan, DG, DGFASLI (Directorate General, Factory Advice and Labour Institutes), Mumbai. The labour ministry has set up three expert committees to review the existing rules and regulations pertaining to safety, fire and other working conditions and to suggest safety related standards for factories under the the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (OSH&WC) Code, 2020. The OSH&WC Code has been enacted after amalgamating thirteen different labour legislations and to simplify the laws regulating the occupational safety, health and working conditions in establishments. ....