North American Clothing Industry Has Its Own Bangladesh Security Plan.

< p > a group of North American retailers have strengthened their working environment safety in Bangladesh's "a href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp "clothing factory < /a > in their own way. They have put forward a new initiative to provide a long-term and flexible solution in order to" cope with ever-changing environment. "

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< p > Safer Factories Initiative (SFI) is aimed at improving worker safety in Bangladesh and around the world.

But unlike the independent "Bangladesh fire and building safety agreement" (which has been signed by more than 30 companies this week, mainly European fashion brands and retailers), the initiative has no legal effect.

This week, Gap, a US retailer, admitted that he was dissatisfied with the settlement of the dispute. They thought that if there was any difference, the risk of litigation in the United States would be very high.

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< p > "due to the" a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/" > garment > /a "and the global connectivity of the retail industry, it is a complex proposal to apply a single legal standard.

Mentioned in the initiative.

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The new initiative (SFI) also avoided the problem of capital responsibility. Compared with the aforementioned agreement, the European brand signed the agreement needed to contribute 500 thousand US dollars a year. P

The other difference is the factory safety initiative (SFI), including short, medium and long term goals, and the agreement is a five year plan.

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< p > including H&M, Inditex, C&A, PVH, Tchibo, Tesco, Marks & Spencer and Abercrombie / Abercrombie and other companies have all become members of the agreement. They estimate that they have made more than 1000 garments in 5000 Bangladesh garment factories, but the initiative aims to cover all Bangladesh garment manufacturers.

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The P SFI initiative was launched by the Bangladesh Bangladesh staff safety work union, which was founded in January 2013 by five American Apparel and Canadian retail trade associations.

It aims to build a series of operations driven by brands and retailers including inspection and unannounced visits to factories, audits, fire drills, fire training, safety checks, but also focuses on how to continue to the future.

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"P," it added, "SFI initiatives need to be flexible enough to understand the safety of large numbers of workers and let brands and retailers respond quickly and effectively to a rapidly changing environment."

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< p > another view is that to improve workers' safety, there is a need for a more extensive proposal to identify and solve the numerous and complex problems behind the safety problems of Bangladesh factories.

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The short-term objectives of the P SFI initiative will focus on the education and safety management of workplace and fire safety.

Workers have also become the key to reporting workplace safety.

Buyers will also be encouraged to develop a training information sharing mechanism with a view to pmitting information to more workers and factories.

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< p > but stakeholders point out that this must be done by buyers and Bangladesh governments, factory owners and Bangladeshi workers.

In the long run, the alliance considers that it is necessary to establish a fire and building safety standard factory, qualified training plan, and strictly enforce construction and safety regulations.

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< p > the initiative also sets up a feasible, fair and sustainable financing mechanism to train and upgrade the existing plant structure and ensure the safety of new buildings.

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< p > North American Bangladesh staff safety work union is made up of American Apparel and a target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/" > shoes /a Class Association (AAFA), Canada a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com" > garment Federation "(")), "American Retail Federation", "Retail Federation of leadership", "retail Leadership Association", and "American", "textile", "textile"

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