Thesis report on Requirements of a Garment Factory to be complaint with laws

Abstract

Over the last years, Ready Made Garments (RMG) sector experienced impressive growth rates and specifically woven and knitwear products are in high demand by the USA and European markets. Adherence with national and international compliance standards has become increasingly important to ensure customer requirements as well as to maintain the sectors competitiveness, but in many cases factory stuff still lacks adequate skills and knowledge to ensure that required compliance standards are reached. This thesis addresses the need to increase the knowledge level of factory practitioners and other interested parties on major social and environmental issues in order to contribute to the sectors competitiveness and to play major role for job, income generation and national economy. By doing this thesis we get to know about different social standards and the importance of the implementation their rules and regulations to make a factory complaint. The factories should follow and maintain the rules of WRAP, BSCI, OEKO-TEX etc. These rules are for worker safety. Workers are the important part of this sector. So their safety is very important issue. To become a complaint factory Graphics and Alema Textile Ltd. are maintaining the rules and regulations of the standards such as BSCI, WRAP, OEKO-TEX etc. They are giving the facilities to their worker by following the rules. They implement the rules such as no child labor, no forced labor , no discrimination in appointment of employee, wages as paid as per law, anti corruption policy, latrine facilities, safe water etc. the authority give training to the worker for fight against fire and other hazards. Compliance is an important issue for the garments industries. To being a factory complaint the social standards should be implemented. At present non compliance factories are in biggest threat for our industry.