SAVAR BUILDING COLLAPSE
by Imogen May Rose
On 24 April 2013, an eight-story commercial building, Rana Plaza, collapsed in Savar, a sub-district in the Greater Dhaka Area, the capital of Bangladesh. The search for the dead ended on 13 May with the death toll of 1,127. Approximately 2,500 injured people were rescued from the building alive.
It is considered to be the deadliest garment-factory accident in history, as well as the deadliest accidental structural failure in modern human history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Savar_building_collapse
SOURCE : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dhaka_Savar_Building_Collapse.jpg
This is incredibly important to note as this is the most recent catastrophe in the garment industry, and F&F and Tesco were using this factory to produce clothing. I plan to create my range of swim and beachwear in Tesco, using more ethical factories, supplying health and safety standards that meet those of the requirements, where workers have rights and correct wages, as outlined in the Ethical Trading Initiative Base Code.
