The Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) has made it easier for factories to report on accidents by utilizing a digital tool. Factories now have the possibility to digitally report accidents through the Labour Information Management System (LIMA). In order to report accidents via LIMA, factories need to first register with the system and navigate to the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) module.Read More..
Safety@Work app is aimed to guide workers to protect themselves and others from COVID-19 and to stay healthy at work, even in a demanding working environment. With this easy-to-follow prevention app for Bangladesh, the management of RMG factories in Bangladesh should be empowered to better protect their workers – from COVID as well as from occupational diseases.Read More..
The International Labour Organization (ILO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour & Employment and Employers’ Associations in Bangladesh, including BGMEA, BKMEA, and BEF, is working to establish effective Enterprise Clinics within factories. CMED Health as a knowledge partner has developed a handbook with checklist to guide employers in creating and maintaining model enterprise clinics.Read More..
"Return to Work" (RTW) is defined as the process of helping workers who have experienced injury, or any form of disability to re-enter the workforce in a manner that is safe, sustainable, and conducive to their overall well-being of both the worker and the establishment. GIZ shall be supporting factories in the RMG sector to establish RTW programme in factories.
The SOSI project is planning to support up factories in the export oriented RMG sector in enabling the factory management to implement an ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety Management System including risks assessment. The services comprised of training on standards and on-site visit to factories as well as coaching factory management on how to implement the management system along with developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), policies and different forms, formats, matrix etc.
Provide the factories medical personnel knowledge on how to identify and treat occupational diseases & work-related diseases, minor and major injuries in the workplaces, and management. It will ultimately aim at supporting the factories’ medical staff’s task to examine and document workplace injuries and to diagnose occupational diseases and increase the technical capacities of health actors to identify, diagnose and treat occupational diseases as such.