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1Kazi Nazmul Huda is an Associate Professor at the Southern University Bangladesh, Department of Business Administration, Chittagong, Bangladesh. He can be reached at knhuda@yahoo.com
Health and safety (H&S) compliance should be the first and foremost issue to be considered by the readymade garment (RMG) organisations with the fullest sincerity to maintain a secure work life of the workers. The main objective of this paper is to study the status of H&S compliance by reviewing the degree H&S determining factors with reference to the selected RMG factories. This study is mainly based on primary data collection from 100 workers of five selected RMGs through a formal questionnaire survey. The questionnaire was Likerttype scale in nature. The findings of the study have marked that barely any worker has strongly agreed with the H&S compliance practices of RMG organisations, and the need and scope to modernise the H&S practices along with the line of H&S process are recommended here in detail. H&S should be considered as a right for every human being, and the stakeholders of the H&S compliance should work on a long way in conceptualising and actualising appropriate practices.
Health & Safety, RMG Compliance, Stakeholders and Workers
JEL Classification: E2
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