Bad blow to RMG
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Your editorial of July 25 on the subject rightly suggests the utter lack of safety in the garment factories; usually run on the whims of the owners; most of whom seem not to look beyond their noses! It was very surprising, to say the least; to note that there was no adequate and reasonably high safety wall around the open roof, so that a worker can fall over it while leaning on the wall! Normally in any residence it is not possible to fall over if you lean across the wall surrounding an open roof! This is the height of negligence, for which the owners are fully responsible and liable, under any circumstances! Based on this logical fact, the statement by the factory owners "that she fell over accidentally" is not a true statement of facts and the reason for the accident is criminally subjective! It seems that the owners could not care less about factory safety. Having worked in industrial factories of various types for over thirty years before retirement, I feel that this is a clear case of wilful criminal neglect of the factory authorities and as per Labour Law and Safety Act, they should be imprisoned for this gross criminal neglect by the Labour Authorities. Small wonder that the garment sector has taken a "number of bad blows"; which if analysed, is mostly self-inflicted! As far as the owners are concerned, human resource management is based on "by the stick and with the stick" principle, and nothing else. Labour is just another process input like power, machines or materials; and the least expensive of all!
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