Safety question mark on H&M’s ‘best factories’: CCC report

A report released by the Clean Clothes Campaign, a workers’ rights organization, found that 53 per cent of H&M’s preferred suppliers were behind schedule when it came to most safety renovations. H&M is one of the more than 200 brands, including Adidas and Abercrombie & Fitch, who have signed an accord to improve safety conditions in factories in Bangladesh after the Rana Plaza building collapse. Out of 32 ‘Gold’ and ‘Platinum’ factories (which make the majority of H&M’s clothes in Bangladesh), none were completely up-to-date on renovations, according to the report. Nearly 61 per cent of them had fire-rated doors and staircase enclosures that were yet to be installed, the report said.