Fire Prevention Week – 2024“Smoke alarms: Make them work for you!” Fire safety is a critical issue in the garment industry, especially in areas like Keraniganj local RMG, where numerous factories operate very congestive manner. Keraniganj local RMG factories often faces fire incidents ignited by short circuit, rapidly spread through the factories and buildings due to […]
Observed Fire Prevention Week – 2024 Read More »
Researsh & Study Gap Analysis Report on Shifting Tannery Industry From Hazaribagh to Savar, Dhaka Timeline : 2021 The leather industry is the 2 largest export industrial sector of Bangladesh. The recent trend of the growth of this sector doesn’t reflect the potential this sector carries. In the recent period, a noteworthy turnaround has been
Gap Analysis Report on Shifting Tannery Industry from Hazaribagh to Savar, Dhaka Read More »
This research focuses on working conditions in the Keraniganj garment workshops. In addition, the characteristics of the Keraniganj-based garment industry were studied, including: size of the workshops, products produced and supplier-buyer linkages. This report is written by CBSG, with input from SOMO. Research & Study Report: Mapping on Organizing Workers in Keraniganj Apparel Hub, Dhaka,
Mapping study report on Organizing Workers in Keraniganj Apparel Hub, Dhaka, Bangladesh Read More »
Bangladesh Labour Foundation (BLF) has distributed emergency food support to hundreds of Informal Local RMG Workers in Keranigong near Dhaka. These workers produces for the local market and mostly work on piece rate basis. Due to COVID 19, the factories were closed all of a sudden and the workers could not make it to go
Gender Expert Group visited local RMG in Keraniganj Read More »
A total of 2 awareness raising meetings with the workers on Occupational Health and Safety (OSH)& COVID-19 Precaution measures were conducted at different towers. Through these number of meetings, we have reached 20 workers directly to make them aware of practicing using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) relevant to Local RMG works. After returning from the meeting, they
Awareness session on OSH and COVID-19 precaution measures for the factory workers Read More »
Keraniganj Apparel Hub has developed on the back of a viable and efficient supply chain. The location itself provides the onus of the effective meeting point for raw material suppliers, producers, wholesalers, and retailers as the supply chain actors. There are more than 9500 showrooms and sale centers within the hub to sell and market
On 18th June 2021, Bangladesh Labour Foundation (BLF) and Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE), GoB jointly organised a workshop with the employers’ associations and employers of Keranigong Local Garment and Tailoring Industry to determine an action plan to stop recruiting and eliminating Child Labour from the workplace and replace those with the
World Day Against Child Labour is observed on 12 June every year around the world. 2021 is the international year for the elimination of child labour. This year, the theme was ‘Act Now: End Child Labour’. Like other countries of the world, Bangladesh has also observed the day with due dignity. Bangladesh Labor Foundation has
World Day Against Child Labour, 2021 has been observed by BLF on 12 June Read More »
Two days long Study Circle Education Facilitation Training was conducted at TIE, Savar on 07 and 08 May, 2021. The activity was organized by BLF and supported by the Mondiaal FNV under Social Compliance and Labour standards in Leather value chain project. The training started with valuable speech from Md. Abul Kalam Azad, President, Tannery
Study Circle Education Facilitation Training for Potential Leaders and Youth Worker Read More »
Labour Day 2021: May 1 is celebrated as International Workers Day. May Day, also called the International Workers’ Solidarity Day, commemorates the historic uprising of the working class in Chicago for an eight-hour workday. BLF organized the May Day 2021 theme was: ‘Sramik-Malik Nirbisesh, Mujib Borshe Gorbo Desh (Workers and employers will join hands to build the country
May Day-2021 is celebrated at BSCIC Tannery Industrial Estate, Savar, Dhaka Read More »
