
Building safety is a tremendous concern in Bangladesh garment factories, and the Bangladeshi factories producing for these brands and many others continue to lack safety measures to prevent future fires or building collapses. Bangladesh is one of the largest and fastest growing exporters of garments, which makes the trend of workplace deaths even more concerning. As part of the solution, US and European apparel brands that have their garments sewn in Bangladesh should adopt a truly meaningful building safety program that includes thorough, independent, well-funded and publicly-transparent safety inspections of all multi-story supplier factories in their Bangladesh supply chains. More than four hundred other workers who have lost their lives in the past six years due to unsafe garment factories in Bangladesh.