Safety campaign for garment industry launched

MNA Business Desk: The government has launched a workplace safety campaign for garment industry to raise awareness about the basics of Occupational Safety and Health.

The radio-based campaign titled ‘Safe Workplaces, Go ahead Bangladesh’ was launched here, aiming to raise awareness of basic Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) issues and their prevention in Bangladesh’s RMG sector.

The Ministry of Labour and Employment and the Department of Inspections for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO) with funding from Canada, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom will carry out the radio-based campaign.

To have better recognition amongst RMG workers, supervisors and managers, well-known TV celebrity Mosharraf Karim will support a number of campaign activities.

A series of 19 radio episodes was broadcasted on Dhaka FM 90.4 on Thursday and Friday evenings at 10pm starting from March 31.

Each radio episode of 30-minute duration was focused on a specific OSH related issue. A series of safety-related radio commercials will be broadcast on Dhaka FM 90.4 throughout the day over a period of two months.

Meanwhile, a weekly contest linked to the radio programme will give listeners the chance to win weekly Tk 1,000 prizes as well as a grand prize of Tk 50,000 at the end of the campaign.