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Common checklist on factory inspection

Star Business Report
Three separate platforms formed to inspect Bangladesh's garment factories have agreed in principle to follow a common set of standards, Labour Secretary Mikail Shipar said yesterday.
Of the three, two are global initiatives—one led by Industri ALL, a global union federation, and the other by North American Alliance (NAA), a platform of 20 US-based retailers.
The third, the National Action Plan, initiated by the government, will be led by Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
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The preliminary appraisal of the garment factory buildings will start on September 15 under a checklist prepared by BUET, the secretary said, after a technical workshop on the standards for assessment.
Representatives from international retailers, NAA, Industri ALL, government higher-ups, labour leaders and garment manufacturers were present at the workshop held at the capital’s Hotel Sonargaon.
Of the 4,000-odd garment factories in the country, Shipar said the NAA and IndustriALL will inspect 1,750 of them and BUET teams the rest. Both the platforms are yet to submit their lists of factories though, he said.
"In factory inspection, the laws of the land will be considered. In case of any tough law we will amend it."
AH three types of buildings—purpose made, shared and transformed ones—will be equally inspected under the regulations, Shipar said.
At the briefing, Srinivas B Reddy, country director of International Labour Organisation, said assessments will be completed in two phases, preliminary and detailed engineering assessments.
"The preliminary assessments will be completed within six months, while the detailed ones will be done within three years," he added.
US Ambassador Dan Mozena said Bangladesh should prepare a world-
class inspection system, as stipulated in the Obama administration's roadmap for Bangladesh to have its Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) status reinstated, so that incidents like the Rana Plaza building collapse and Tazreen fire do not take place. "The retailers, brands and Bangladesh government should create a credible factory inspection regime," he added.
At the inaugural session of the discussion, Phillip Jacques, charge d'affaires of the Delegation of the European Union to Bangladesh, said being a least-developed country Bangladesh should not take its GSP status for granted. "It may not continue if the working environment and safety standards are not improved."