environmental and hygienic conditions of these crowded urban slums are appalling. Here, women workers, mostly single and earning meager wages, are vulnerable to verbal and sexual assaults. The majority of garment workers are women. The workers are mainly from the remote rural areas. For them it becomes difficult, if not impossible to arrange a secure housing facility with their limited income. In most of the cases, they are to live in the slums which are highly crime pron. Living in the slums involves the highest risk for the women garments worker. In addition, the socio-economic condition of Bangladesh has made their condition more vulnerable. Our society, generally, pose a negative impression to the people who are living in the slums; when the slum dweller is a woman and she lives alone apart from her family, the stigma intensify. Taking the advantage of the situation people can easily sexually harass the garment workers. In such a situation, the factory accommodation is the most secure option for the women garments workers.61 Therefore, the Bangladesh Labour Act may have provision recommending factory supervised housing facilities for the workers. In FGD, female workers mentioned that they are worried about their unsafe accommodation. National Council for Industrial Health and Safety Provision relating to the National Council for Industrial Health and Safety seems inadequate as the Council, which will be constituted under the section 323 of the Bangladesh Labour Act, 2006 will not be able to represent the interest of the workers. Practice shows that the Secretaries and Ministers more or less biased to the interest of the powerful employers. Under current constitution of the Council the representatives of the workers will hardly get an opportunity to represent their safety and security interest. Therefore, it would be proper to incorporate a provision for constitution of another National Council for Industrial Health and Safety which will exclusively constituted by the representatives of the workers. The proposed Council will directly hear the claim relating to health and safety from the workers and bargain to establish the claim. 61 Zohir & Paul-Majumder , in Women Garments Worker in Bangladesh: Economic, Social and Health Condition, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, (1996) pp. 79-108.