In what is seen as a major move towards ensuring workers’ safety, Bangladesh is planning to develop a National Plan of Action (NPA) on occupational safety and health with the aim of ensuring safe and decent workplace for the workers, as per media reports.
The Government has reportedly taken the initiative to comply with the requirements of international standards regarding occupational safety and also to comply with the requirement of sustainable development goals.
All stakeholders including factory owners, labour leaders, senior officials of different ministries and departments as well as some global entities are supposed to meet for the same in Habiganj shortly.
As per officials of the Labour ministry, developing an NPA was a must to implement the national OSH policy and the plan should be finalised with the recommendations from stakeholders concerned more so as countries like Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam have already developed such plan of action for implementing OSH regulations.
These countries have reportedly also been able to reduce the number of fatal accidents by implementing the programmes.
