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Occupational safety and health improvement in the …

(1 days ago) WEBfocus areas: chemicals and hazardous substances; emergency preparedness; health services and first aid; OSH man-agement systems; welfare facilities; worker accommodation; worker protection; and working environment. Assessment reports …

https://vzf.ilo.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/OSH_improvement-Garment-_04Web.pdf

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Health and safety in garment workers’ lives: Setting a new …

(7 days ago) WEBAmidst new global initiatives to promote garment workers’ health and safety following a spate of deadly factory disasters across the Global South, this critical review calls for an expanded research agenda that looks beyond the workplace to examine the complex politics, spatialities, and temporalities of garment workers’ health and wellbeing.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718517303366

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New Accord to Protect Garment Workers in Bangladesh Is …

(7 days ago) WEBThe new agreement, the International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment Industry, will take effect next Wednesday. which killed 1,100 garment workers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/business/garment-worker-safety-accord.html

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(PDF) Introduction: Rethinking Garment Workers’ Health …

(8 days ago) WEBThese conditions can affect workplace health and safety through high employee turnover, inadequate training and weak enforcement of labour …

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319487545_Introduction_Rethinking_Garment_Workers'_Health_and_Safety_Health_and_Safety_of_the_World's_Garment_Workers

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Garment worker rights and the fashion industry’s …

(2 days ago) WEBPrentice R, De Neve G, Mezzadri A, et al. (2018) Health and safety in garment workers’ lives: Setting a new research agenda. Geoforum 88: 157–160 Afterword: politics after Rana Plaza. In: Prentice R, De Neve G (eds) Unmaking the Global Sweatshop: Health and Safety of the World’s Garment Workers. Philadelphia: …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2043820620933851

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Fears for Bangladesh Garment Workers as Safety …

(Just Now) WEBFears for Bangladesh Garment Workers as Safety Agreement Nears an End. The Rana Plaza collapse led to the agreement, which improved factory safety for workers. Despite a last-minute …

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/business/bangladesh-worker-safety-accord.html

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Protecting Garment Workers from Systemic Abuse

(8 days ago) WEBOn Sept. 27, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law the Garment Worker Protection Act, a law that protects workers from abusive labor practices. California’s new law prohibits the common industrywide practice of paying by the piece – that is, a flat rate per garment completed. With this practice, workers like Bertha …

https://blog.dol.gov/2021/10/18/protecting-garment-workers-from-systemic-abuse

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Health and safety in garment workers’ lives: Setting a new …

(4 days ago) WEBAbstract. Amidst new global initiatives to promote garment workers’ health and safety following a spate of deadly factory disasters across the Global South, this critical review calls for an

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322191124_Health_and_safety_in_garment_workers'_lives_Setting_a_new_research_agenda

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Health and safety in garment workers’ lives: setting a new research …

(9 days ago) WEBAmidst new global initiatives to promote garment workers’ health and safety following a spate of deadly factory disasters across the Global South, this critical review calls for an expanded research agenda that looks beyond the workplace to examine the complex politics, spatialities, and temporalities of garment workers’ health and …

https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Health_and_safety_in_garment_workers_lives_setting_a_new_research_agenda/23451041

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Health vulnerabilities of readymade garment (RMG) …

(6 days ago) WEBSouth and Southeast Asian focus on readymade garment (RMG) workers’ health vulnerabilities. Garment workers globally experience distinctive vulnerabilities in the workplace [1, 2].These …

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-019-6388-y

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Introduction: Rethinking Garment Workers' Health and …

(1 days ago) WEBAmidst new global initiatives to promote garment workers' health and safety following a spate of deadly factory disasters across the Global South, this critical review calls for an expanded research agenda that …

https://www.academia.edu/38296693/Introduction_Rethinking_Garment_Workers_Health_and_Safety

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New study shows 'fast fashion' continues to risk garment workers

(Just Now) WEBUnmaking the Global Sweatshop: Health and safety of the world's garment workers, New study shows 'fast fashion' continues to risk garment workers' health and well-being (2017

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-fast-fashion-garment-workers-health.html

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Unmaking the Global Sweatshop: Health and Safety of the World's …

(1 days ago) WEBUnmaking the Global Sweatshop gathers the work of leading anthropologists and ethnographers studying the global garment industry to examine the relationship between the politics of labor and initiatives to protect workers' health and safety. Contributors analyze both the labor processes required of garment workers as well as the global …

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv16t6ft5

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‘Give workers an equal seat’: pressure builds for Levi’s to protect

(5 days ago) WEBThe garment sector accounts for 84% of Bangladesh’s exports, yet workers still face a dearth of safety protections. Photograph: Mustasinur Rahman Alvi/Eyepix Group/Rex/Shutterstock

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/sep/23/levis-garment-workers-bangladesh-pakistan-international-accord-health-safety

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Unsafe workplaces — Clean Clothes Campaign

(2 days ago) WEBThe search of the global garment and sportswear industries for the lowest production costs comes at a high price: the health and safety of workers. After more than a century of work as CCC, developing national regulations and international conventions, workers continue to lose their health and lives while stitching our clothes.

https://cleanclothes.org/unsafe-workplaces

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The Exploitation of Garment Workers: Threading the Needle on …

(4 days ago) WEBWe will use all available enforcement tools to hold manufacturers and contractors accountable when they violate those rights. The exploitation of workers is never an acceptable price to pay for the clothes on your back. We encourage workers, advocates and stakeholders in the garment industry to call us at 1-866-487-9243 to report wage …

https://blog.dol.gov/2023/03/21/the-exploitation-of-garment-workers-threading-the-needle-on-fast-fashion

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Health and Safety: Getting sick and risking lives - Clean Clothes …

(5 days ago) WEBThe current state of health and safety conditions in most garment factories are extremely low. Long hours of repetitive work often lead to undiagnosed injuries. There is often no clean drinking water available and workers are often not permitted to use the toilet. The most pressing health issues for garment workers are related to the

https://cleanclothes.org/issues/ohs

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Body as machine: Health vulnerability of women garment factory …

(7 days ago) WEBThe applications during the period of two years preceding the study in 2018–2019 showed that most of the deaths had taken place among women in the garment industry. This initial observation was the trigger to undertake a larger exploration of the everyday health vulnerability of women workers in garment factories.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321523000859

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(PDF) Health and safety in garment workers’ lives: Setting a new

(6 days ago) WEBKeywords: garment workers, health and safety, well-being, labour geography, ethnography, South Asia 1 Forthcoming in Geoforum 88C:157-60 (2018) 1. Introduction: From Safety to Health The factory fires and collapses that gripped public attention over the last few years have brought renewed focus on the health and safety of global garment …

https://www.academia.edu/90126136/Health_and_safety_in_garment_workers_lives_Setting_a_new_research_agenda

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Dirty Threads, Dangerous Factories: Health and Safety in Los …

(Just Now) WEBThe report was based upon 307 surveys with garment workers in 2015. Every worker surveyed was employed in a Los Angeles-based apparel manufacturing shop at the time of inquiry. This report was written in collaboration with the Garment Worker Center (GWC) and UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health (UCLA LOSH). …

https://labor.ucla.edu/publications/dirty-threads-dangerous-factories-health-and-safety-in-los-angeles-fashion-industry/

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Fashion brands sign new deal on Bangladesh garment workers’ …

(4 days ago) WEBLast modified on Wed 19 Oct 2022 11.39 EDT. Campaigners have hailed a new agreement designed to protect garment workers in Bangladesh, signed by the likes of H&M and Inditex, which owns Zara and

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/aug/26/fashion-brands-sign-new-deal-on-bangladesh-garment-workers-safety

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Decade After Rana Plaza, Safety Flaws Persist - Human Rights Watch

(Just Now) WEB“The Accord on Health and Safety is the strongest indicator for consumers that a brand is committed to protecting workers from fire and building disasters in Bangladesh and Pakistan,” said

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/04/17/decade-after-rana-plaza-safety-flaws-persist

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Workers Health and Safety in the Apparel Industry (Videos)

(7 days ago) WEBIn an existing garment factory or in a new set-up workers’ health and safety must be considered in the first place. Workers are the main resources that keep the machine running in a factory, and making the desired products. In an unhealthy workplace, workers could not work for a long time. All companies must follow health and safety …

https://www.onlineclothingstudy.com/2015/10/workers-health-safety-apparel-industry.html

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Secretary of Labor Julie Su on the Worker Movement 113 Years

(9 days ago) WEBTo date, this is the Department’s largest settlement ever for California garment workers. In December of 2022, in a suburb of Chicago, a 29-year-old mother of two was killed at work while she

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/secretary-of-labor-julie-su-on-the-worker-movement-113-years-after-the-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire/ar-BB1kvVZd

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Embracing AI Safely: Ensuring Workplace Safety Amid …

(1 days ago) WEBEmbracing AI Safely: Ensuring Workplace Safety Amid Technological Change. Safety first, today, tomorrow, always. Progress without worker pain is possible, whatever comes our way next. It’s hard to believe it’s been more than four years since a global pandemic changed everything about the way we live and work. The masks and …

https://riskandinsurance.com/embracing-ai-safely-ensuring-workplace-safety-amid-technological-change/

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Reducing Health Risks to Workers Handling Human Waste or …

(4 days ago) WEBPersonal Protective Equipment (PPE) Workers handling human waste or sewage should be provided proper PPE and trained on how to use it and should have access to handwashing facilities. [1] Workers should wash hands with soap and water immediately after removing PPE. The following PPE is recommended for workers handling human waste or sewage:

https://www.cdc.gov/global-water-sanitation-hygiene/about/workers_handlingwaste.html

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Cool Course—Design and Development: Couture/Culture - NYU

(4 days ago) WEBThese include the role of department stores in racial integration and how social media users work to spot knockoff fashion and design theft—topics that are explored in the syllabus through works such as Working Girls: Sex, Taste, and Reform in the Garment Trades, 1880-1919 and Threads: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global …

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2024/may/cool-course-design-and-development--couture-culture.html

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Navigating Fast Fashion's Legal Quandary: Labor Code Violations …

(6 days ago) WEBThe Bangladesh Fire & Safety Accord offers a blueprint for enhancing workplace safety and labor standards and as India navigates the aftermath of the pandemic, prioritizing worker welfare and adopting measures akin to the Accord could reshape the industry towards greater equity and sustainability on a global scale.

https://www.mondaq.com/india/employee-benefits--compensation/1464232/navigating-fast-fashions-legal-quandary-labor-code-violations-and-pandemic-implications

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