70 tøjforhandlere, som får produceret beklædning i Bangladesh, er enedes om en plan for, hvordan man skal inspicere tøjfabrikkerne for at forbedre de kritisable eller ikke-eksisterende sikkerhedsstandarder for titusindvis af syersker.
The inspections will provide details of factories they source goods (indkøber produkter) from, which will be inspected within the next nine months, BBC online reports Monday.
Funds will be made available for any safety upgrades needed at the units.
The legally-binding code was announced earlier this year after the collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh in April killed more than 1.100 people.
Several big names, including Sweden’s H&M, the biggest buyer of Bangladeshi-made clothes, signed up to the code after the incident.
It requires them not just to meet minimum fire and building safety standards, but also to pay for them.
Brian Kohler, from IndustriaLL, a labour group which played a key role in creating the pact, says it is “regrettable” that some big names still have not signed up to the accord.
Last month, US suspended trade privileges extended to Bangladesh over concerns about dangerous working conditions and labour rights.
This decision was taken after a year-long review of labour practices and workplace safety in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh’s garments export industry is the second biggest in the world after China’s.
