{"id":1525,"date":"2013-11-24T04:48:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T04:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2013-11-24T04:50:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T04:50:25","slug":"initial-investigation-report-tazreen-garments-factory-fire-24-november-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/2013\/11\/24\/initial-investigation-report-tazreen-garments-factory-fire-24-november-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial ASK Investigation Report for Tazreen Garments Factory Fire | 24 November 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Report Includes Recent Writ Petition Filed by ASK and three other Human Rights Organisations. Initial photos from the investigation unit, witness statementa compiled by ASK Investigation Team, Floor Plans and Statistics on Deaths in Garment Factory Fires.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 500px;\" src=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/gview?url=http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ASK-Investigation-Report-Garments-Factory-Fire-24-November-2012-Nafeesa.pdf&amp;embedded=true\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><a href=\"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ASK-Investigation-Report-Garments-Factory-Fire-24-November-2012-Nafeesa.pdf\">ASK Investigation Report &#8211; Garments Factory Fire &#8211; 24 November 2012 &#8211; Nafeesa<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ASK Opinion | &#8221;BGMEA should also have been more alert in giving membership to non compliant companies&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019The government probe committee has said the fire was a sabotage, perhaps the sabotage is by persons who failed in their responsibility to comply with legal provisions or to ensure compliance.\u00a0\u00a0 Independent investigators have found\u00a0many lapses in complying with the building code, safety regulations and so on.\u00a0The factory received a sanction for three floors from RAJUK but it went up to the seventh floor and construction was continuing on two more floors.\u00a0\u00a0 This was a clear violation,\u00a0and an independent and transparent enquiry commission would attribute responsibility to the owner, the management and the regulating authority.\u00a0The fire service had not renewed its fire license and yet it allowed it to continue manufacturing.\u00a0This was a violation of the safety regulations and shows lapses by the fire department.\u00a0\u00a0 Labour inspectors had not taken any steps to prevent the factory from using the entrance area for storage of raw material, and there were no complaint mechanisms where the workers could report on locked gates.\u00a0\u00a0 BGMEA should also have been more alert in giving membership to non compliant companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report Includes Recent Writ Petition Filed by ASK and three other Human Rights Organisations. Initial photos from the investigation unit, witness statementa compiled by ASK Investigation Team, Floor Plans and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,70,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-news","category-tazreen-garments-fire","category-workers-rights"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}