Safe workplace: A must need for the garment industries in Bangladesh

Abstract

A safe and healthy workplace not only protects workers from injury and illness, it can also lower injury/illness costs, reduce absenteeism and turnover, increase productivity and quality and raise employee morale. In other words, safety is good for business. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the workplace safety of the garment industries of Bangladesh which is the topmost earning and employment sector of Bangladesh. This paper aims to identify the grey areas of the safety arrangements of the garments industries in Bangladesh and will propose the remedies to be undertaken to overcome such lacking. Despite several researchers in the past have identified several constrains, mentioned differently models and put forwarded their valuable suggestions to ensure the safety and security of the workplaces and the employees, but it is still a mystery why appropriate and adequate steps have not to be taken to guard against insecure workplaces in the garment industries. This paper provides background information about the unsafe workplace in the garment industries of Bangladesh and future insight for future researches.