Dani Resource Center

DaNi Resource Center (DRC) is a service provider organization and it established in 2005. DRC strives to offer services to enable sustainable management that effectively correlates economic, social and ecological performance of our clients and strengthens their competitiveness. Our Vision: Provide services to enable organizational development, establishing social &ecological values. Our Mission: Achieving sustainable management that effectively correlates economic, social and ecological performance of social and human strengthens and competitiveness.

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Electrical Safety Audit

DaNi Resource Center offering Electrical Safety Audit first time in Bangladesh for Garments Factories.

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As part of the recent fire incidents, DaNi Resource Center has decided to offer Electrical Safety Audit” for International Brands and factories in Bangladesh.

Increasing deaths, injuries and as well as huge losses in assets resulting from fires due to electrical safety failures poses the greatest threat to the Garments industries in Bangladesh which generate almost 80% of the country’s export earnings. As per Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defense, 70% fire incident in Garments & Knitting industries due to electrical safety failures and 5% due to overheating.

Electrical safety audit is specific programme to evaluate potential hazards, and to recommend measures to minimise / prevent hazards on hazards of electrical origin. This is a loss prevention programme on property/production loss, loss of life/injuries to personnel

Objectives

Assessment of the status of electrical installations & equipment, distribution system with respect to:

— Legal Requirements

— Hazard Potential

— Working condition

— Work Practice

— Personnel competence

— Suitability

— Adequacy of the electrical system

Preparation of a comprehensive report based on assessment
Provide guidelines to industries for modifications to make up deficiencies with due consideration to possible Hierarchy of Control

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	PRIMARK Seminar on Fire Safety
A seminar was held on 11th November 2010 on fire safety issues in Bangladesh. Suppliers and importers of PRIMARK joined the seminar. Close

?Safe Workplace for Sustainable Business: Managing fire and other hazards?

Recently we observed that regular factory fires, factory mishaps in Bangladesh are the predictable outcome of the lethal ?low-price-at-any-cost? business model that ignites a race to the bottom in which Bangladesh is one of the victors, claiming ?ground zero? in working conditions. More than 4,000 factories and two millions workers in Bangladesh now toil at ground zero at a terrible cost to human lives.

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Situational Assessment Project

“Safe Workplace for Sustainable Business: Managing fire and other hazards”

This auspicious project was designed to assess safety standards to deliver comprehensive safety concepts among an array of factories in Bangladesh. Recently we observed that regular factory fires, factory mishaps in Bangladesh are the predictable outcome of the lethal “low-price-at-any-cost” business model that ignites a race to the bottom in which Bangladesh is one of the victors, claiming “ground zero” in working conditions. More than 4,000 factories and two millions workers in Bangladesh now toil at ground zero at a terrible cost to human lives.

DaNi experts conducted thorough safety survey in these factories and found that causes of accidents can be generally mentioned as:

· Unsafe working conditions, poor fire and electrical safety

· Lack of supervision and training

· Use of old machinery and equipment

· Lack of sufficient maintenance

· Poor OHS standards

· Bad house-keeping practices

· Violation of safety rules

· Over crowded production units with very congested space

High risk for safety and health has been observed in:

· Working with machine and equipment

· Use of electricity

· Use of chemicals

· Building and Construction works

· Dusty worksites

· Congested and dark workplaces

Assessment Problem Domain:

The project concentrated primarily on fire safety and the capacity to develop safe & good working condition. Workers and management cooperation on compliance issues, laws, fire and chemical hazards.

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Lock Free Labor. Be safe. Be informed.

No matter where you work. No matter what your job is. We all have a right to a safe workplace. Yet every month in Bangladesh, at least nineteen people die from work-related injuries. To some it's only a statistic. To many, it's pain that will last a lifetime. The tragedy is it doesn't have to be this way. Be safe. Be informed.

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The Campaign believes:

It is a universal human right to have a safe and healthy workplace, and to be able to go to work and return home after a day's work as fit and healthy as when we left home’.
No matter where you work. No matter what your job is. We all have a right to a safe workplace. Yet every month in Bangladesh, nineteen people die from work-related injuries. To some it’s only a statistic. To many, it’s pain that will last a lifetime. The tragedy is it doesn’t have to be this way. Be safe. Be informed.

Twenty-one Locked-In Apparel Workers Die in Garib & Garib Factory due to Fire in Bangladesh
•       How many more workers will have to pay with their lives to absorb the terrible cost of apparel companies’ low-road, bottom-price business model?

Close to 9.30 p.m. on Thursday, February 26, 2010, twenty-one workers died when the Garib & Garib Sweater Factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh, caught fire for the third time (according to DaNi investigation) in eight months. Local news media reported thick black smoke caused by burning acrylic yarn spreading throughout the building. Lasting nearly two hours, the fire consumed the oxygen in the air, suffocating the workers. The smoke could not get out because the building was poorly ventilated. Workers could not escape because exits were locked. Fire fighters had to cut the window grills to get in, hampering rescue efforts. The factory’s own fire-fighting equipment, they report, was "virtually useless."

As per the local news media published this (incomplete) list of recent major garment factory fires in Bangladesh:
•     62 died at KTS Garments, Chittagong 2006
•     32 died at Saraka Garments, Dhaka 1990
•     24 died at Shanghai Apparels, Dhaka 1997
•     23 died at Macro Sweater, Dhaka 2000
•     23 died at Chowdhury Knitwear, Narsingdi 2004
•     23 died at Shan Knitting, Narayanganj 2005
•     22 died at Lusaka Garments, Dhaka 1996
•     20 died at Jahanara Fashion, Narayanganj 1997
•     12 died at Globe Knitting, Dhaka 2000

DaNi Resource Center (DRC) took initiatives to start a campaign: Lock Free Labor. Be safe. Be informed. “Ensure safe workplace, protect the life, and protect the industry”

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