Scope of Injury Minimization in Garments Industry: An Analysis

Abstract

Injury and accidents have a lot of negative impacts in an organization, especially in a manufacturing industry. Injury is a hindrance to productivity as it harms the lead time of the production. Additionally, reputation and development of an industry get destroyed as it directly related to manpower and product or service. Previously in garments industry of Bangladesh, a lot of injury happened almost every year due to infrastructural problem as well as various hazards in the production floor. The number of these accidents has been reduced to a great extent at present. The injury must be minimized to provide safe working environment, to ensure compliance issues and to retain the orders in Readymade Garments (RMG) industry. In our paper, it was attempted to minimize the injury in some selective sections of a garments industry. The total number of injuries occurred in those sections for a specific month was collected. After analyzing the collected data, the major causes of accidents and injuries faced by the workers in those sections were pointed out. The possible causes were then solved by taking proper actions and the data against same criteria was analyzed for the consecutive month. Finally, after achieving positive results, related preventive recommendations were framed out and given to the industry for injury minimization in future.