surveyed workers believe that their factories do not have adequate fire fighting appliances. This
concept makes them panic at the time of accident and they forget what they have learnt from fire
fighting training and as a result more damage occurs. Moreover, workers feel that the fire
fighting training provided by the employer is not adequate. The Labour Act should specify the
frequency of fire fighting training and specific number of fire fighting appliances.
Empirical study (specially through FGD) reveals that workers
have no knowledge about
building code or about the constriction of building, however, they have made their comments on
the basis of outside appearance of building, even in a very old building they feel fit for work.
Similarly, they have no idea about the safe electric connection in their working place. They are
worried about it. Regular monitoring by ‘SMC’ will make them confident about the safety of
their workplace.
The awareness program as to safety and security held on the basis of buyer’s order on their
factory. If buyer has some order to their factory and like to know the condition of working place
than the authority of the factory take some awareness program in this regards. So, from the
result of empirical study, it can be recommended that the inspector of the factory should be more
responsible and accountable to the superior authority. Number of Inspectors of the factory should
be increased and will not be biased in any regards.
14. Limitation and Further Scope for Study
Following will be the limitations of the current study:
i.
This study has not investigated the EPZ workers who are not covered by the Bangladesh
Labour Act, 2006. It is because there is a separate law titled EPZ Workers Association and
Industrial Relations Act, 2004 [authors’ translation] to regulate the EPZ workers. Due to time
constraint.
ii.
This study has not investigated the safety and security issues of any other labours except the
garments workers.
iii.
All the International Conventions have not been reviewed due to time constant and to keep
the report in a manageable size.