Ctg fire service launches drive at RMG units

 

In this December 1 photo, the fire brigade inspects different garment factories of Ashulia to check their fire safety equipment, a week after 111 people died in the Tazreen Fashions blaze. The photo shows a fire-dousing hose of a factory leaking badly.Star Online Report

Fire Service and Civil Defence in Chittagong launched a 20-day drive on Monday to check the fire safety measures at around 916 readymade garments factories in the port city.
The inspection came nine days into the devastating fire that killed 111 workers and injured over 100 others at Tazreen Fashion Ltd in Nishchintapur of Ashulia.
The fire brigade will submit a report to its headquarters on completion of the drive, reports out Chittagong correspondent.
A total of seven teams, each consisting of four officials, started inspecting in the city garments around 10:00am, Ruhul Amin, deputy director of Fire Service and Civil Defence in Chittagong, told The Daily Star.
If the teams find any factory without fire protection measures, they will give it a one-month time to set up fire fighting equipment, he said.
According to the Fire Service Rule, 2003, fire service will take legal action through mobile courts against those factories, which will not ensure the fire safety measures within the timeframe, Ruhul said.
Apart from the inspection, the department will also sit with Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) leaders of the port city and ask them to force the owners to ensure fire preventive measures at their factories, he said.
Earlier on November 29, 15 teams of Fire Service and Civil Defence started inspection in Ashulia and Savar to identify the safety compliance at readymade garment factories.