46 more Alliance factories complete CAP in August

The Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety (Alliance) has announced that 46 additional Alliance-affiliated factories completed all material components in their Corrective Action Plans (CAP) during the month of August. As a result, the total number of CAP-completing factories in Bangladesh has risen to 166. Alliance also suspended operations in two factories.

“Alliance-affiliated factories are beginning to achieve completion of their required repairs at a rapid pace, and we are pleased to recognise those that have made worker safety a priority,” said Alliance country director Jim Moriarty.

“We remain confident that remediation will be largely completed across our factories by next year, and we are working with trusted partners now to enable our factory inspections, safety improvements and worker training and empowerment initiatives to be sustained over the long term,” he added.

The Alliance also continued to enforce accountability measures for factories that failed to make adequate remediation progress. In August, two factories were suspended from the Alliance compliant factory list, bringing the total number of suspended factories to 158.
The Alliance was set up in 2013 as a legally binding, five-year commitment to improve safety in Bangladeshi readymade garment factories.