Authorities also have promised to improve factory safety by modernizing equipment, overhauling fire-safety and building-safety laws, and increasing inspections.
And critics worry that factory safety and worker protections won't improve as long as apparel companies chase the lowest manufacturing costs.
Bangladesh's government has promised to take action to improve factory safety.
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And while poor factory safety doesn't necessarily equate to unsafe food, industry officials say workplace problems of any kind around food raise risks it will be contaminated during processing.
It will be using an inspection company to provide fire safety training to factory workers.
Koreas conglomerates are cutting back on capital spending, and theres no safety net for factory workers comparable with ours.
Work at a UK nuclear weapons factory has been halted over safety concerns.
"We were not aware of structural safety issues with this factory, " the spokesman said.
With its close and many say corrupt ties to the garment industry, critics say the Bangladeshi government made it easy for both factory owners and retailers to resist binding safety measures before the disaster - not doing enough to respond to past calamities like the Tazreen fire.
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Government officials, labor activists, manufacturers and retailers all called for improved safety standards after a November garment factory fire in the same suburb, when locked emergency exits trapped hundreds of workers inside and 112 people died.
The city council, which has owned the site since July 2010, said the top part of the factory's facade needed temporarily taking down for safety.
The factories, which also supplied clothes to other European retailers, had been audited by Mango executives in October to determine safety standards and work conditions, one factory executive said.
The deal includes regulations on safety inspections and requires retailers to pay for factory repairs.
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Workers' groups complain such checks have been unable to stop poor safety standards, with over 700 people dying in factory fires in recent years.
Workers' groups complain such checks have been unable to remedy poor safety standards, with over 700 people dying in factory fires in Bangladesh in recent years.
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The company, which often is criticized for its low-paying jobs and buying habits in the U.S., recently has faced allegations that it made bribes in Mexico and calls for better safety oversight after a deadly fire at a Bangladesh factory that supplies its clothes.
Human-rights groups have been calling on apparel brands and retailers to sign on to the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement, which would establish a system of independent factory inspectors whose recommendations would be binding.
Labor and human-rights groups have been calling on apparel brands and retailers to sign on to the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement, which would establish a system of independent factory inspections whose recommendations would be binding.
The safety guard that was on the grinder when it left the factory in 1961 was sawed off some years later.
It had safety procedures in place, assumed they were being followed on the factory floor and should have discovered that they were not.
Lax safety standards, poor wiring and overcrowding are blamed for causing several deadly factory fires every year.
"This is a really important step toward food safety standards that would prevent contamination whether it is produced in a food factory or being produced on a farm, " said Chris Waldrop, director of the Food Policy Institute at the Consumer Federation of America.
The recent spate of accidents in the garment trade, especially in Bangladesh, where in addition to the building collapse more than 100 have also died in factory fires over the past year has led labor unions and worker-safety groups to press Western retailers to tighten oversight of their supply chains.
But labor activists have consistently alleged that factory owners in their greed for more business and profits have given short shrift to the safety of their workers making fires a commonplace occurence.
The barrister said the firm had now moved to a new factory at Greenfield from its Deeside plant, and has carried out a "root and branch" safety review.
Campaigners also want Primark, with Matalan and Mango, which have also used the building's products, to sign the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement of firms, unions and non-governmental organisations aimed at ending the "appallingly unsafe factory conditions" in that country.
The RBI is also in charge of the safety of the financial system, to which end it yanks more levers than Willy Wonka in a chocolate factory.
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