ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF TEXTILE INDUSTRY IN BANGLADESH: CONSTRAINT AND REMEDIATION
Journal Title: International Journal of Environment, Ecology, Family and Urban Studies (IJEEFUS) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
The textile industries have become the backbone of the country’s economy but it also possesses threats recently. There were several fire accidents in textile sector, which caused death of hundreds of workers and fires have become common incidents. The textile building collapse of Savar in 2013 turned into a hot issue in Bangladesh as well as in the rest of the world due to its thousands of labour deaths. Environmental management is the management of an organization’s responsibility on its impacts on the environment. In another word, EMS is a set of processes and practices that enable the organization to reduce its environmental impacts and increase its operating efficiency in a systematic and cost-effective manner. Two data gathering approaches literature review and questioner survey supported by semi-structured interviews were followed in this study. Surveys were responded by 26 companies in the target region. Based on the questions which constitute the questionnaire, environmental situations of the companies were assessed under six areas, General environmental policies and management practices, Perspective on the environmental legislations, General waste management practices, Selection of production processes, systems and technologies considering environmental pollution and Occupational health, safety and environmental performance. From study it was found that, poor monitoring and enforcement of existing laws lead the factory owners to avoid proper environmental management system. Beside pollution issue, many factory owners also do not follow the minimum safety regulations of the textile industries, because there is no proper policy or concrete labour and trade union policy in this sector, most of the factory owners take it as advantages and want to have more profits without investing sufficiently for workplace safety of workers.
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MOHAMMAD ZAKIR HOSSAIN KHAN
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