Battling for a safer Bangladesh

Question 1

What happened at the Sweater Factory in 2005?

Answer 1

Due to lack of factory safety improvements, the factory collapsed and many died.

Question 2

What happened at the Rana Plaza Factory?

Answer 2

It collapsed and killed many more, one of the worst collapse in history

Question 3

How did companies respond to these collapses?

Answer 3

They began a major push to improve safety at the Bangladeshi factories they do business with?

Question 4

How do the companies plan to improve safety?

Answer 4

By inspecting hundreds of plants each month an a commitment to help correct any safety problems found

Question 5

What are the two groups that derived from the safety actions?

Answer 5

The Bangladesh Accord for Fire and Building safety which is dominated by Europeans. The Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety which is dominated by Americans

Question 6

What is the competition on both sides

Answer 6

The American dominate Alliance believes itself to have performed better than the accord. But accord says otherwise; they work closely with labor unions and have inputs from workers

Question 7

What are the assertions of the accord of the alliance

Answer 7

they assert that the alliance inspections are less rigorous/accurate.

Question 8

What are the assertions of the alliance of the accord

Answer 8

accord has not provided wages to workers who were laid off when their factory was temporarily closed after inspectors found serious problems

Question 9

How many American universities joined the accord and why?

Answer 9

15 American companies joined disregard the alliance and joined the accord because they think the accord is better.

Question 10

Despite the corruption and political turbulence in Bangladesh businesses are

Answer 10

willing to take risks and stays while some experts sees as not normal as most businesses spends their time to buy down risk.

Question 11

How does the accord plan to carry out their safety plan?

Answer 11

Hire engineers to inspect for unsafe electrical boxes, structural soundness and sprinkler systems. Buildings are required to be built 75 feet or taller. inspect all factories by late Oct. of that year

Question 12

How does the alliance plan to carry out their safety plan?

Answer 12

have inspected 400 factories so far and plans to inspect all of its members by July 10 of that year.

Question 13

what are some of the problems found from inspecting the buildings?

Answer 13

buildings are so overloaded that their columns had cracks, flammable fabric storage areas, fire stairways leading to the factory floor rather than outside the building.

Question 14

What happened as a result of the inspection?

Answer 14

Factory buildings are ordered to shut down temporarily for the fear of collapse.

Question 15

What did some alliance members fault accord for?

Answer 15

Fault accord for not paying wages to more than 2,500 workers at a factory when it was closed after they found structural problems that needed urgent attention.

Question 16

What are some factory owner complaints of the accord

Answer 16

the factory was closed without due process and the accord was not being cooperative or professional

Question 17

What is one of accord’s achievement?

Answer 17

was allowing public to see detailed inspection report of factories that includes photos of the problems found.

Question 18

What is the problem that accord found of alliance?

Answer 18

many investigations of the alliance has not been rigorous enough. Especially after the discovery of false grade to Walmart’s inspection of Dird. But after the Tazreen incident, Walmart became strict

Question 19

What did Professor O’Rourke say is the benefit of the competition on both sides?

Answer 19

it pushes both sides to raise the bar on what they’re doing to improve safety.