Fire safety concerns persists as hundreds of readymade garment factories across Bangladesh continue operating without government licences or trade body affiliation, exposing thousands of workers to life-threatening hazards.
Energypac Power Generation PLC has recently held a fire safety campaign at Shailat High School located in Sripur, Gazipur with a view to raising awareness among the students, teachers and staff of the school about fire safety protocols...
YET another fire that broke out in a hotel, housed in a multi-use six-storey building, at Shahjadpur in Dhaka on March 3, leaving four boarders dead, brings to the fore some issues that relevant authorities have ignored for years. The authorities appear to be waking up to reality after every such fire but they forget to continue to act on the issues soon after the furore...
Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed has constituted a nine-member taskforce to strengthen fire safety measures in the Supreme Court compound, including the International Crimes Tribunal, the Office of the Attorney General, the Supreme Court Bar Association building. The initiative comes in response to a devastating fire at the Secretariat on December 26, 2024...
Most of the restaurants in Dhaka city have no fire safety measures although fire incidents in restaurants leave dozens of people killed every year.
THE death of three people in a cylinder explosion at a restaurant in Keraniganj, as 抖阴精品 reported on October 6, is shocking. It is more so after a series of such events the latest of which, on February 29, left at least 46 dead as a cylinder explosion burnt an eight-storey building that housed mostly restaurants and eateries on Bayley Road in Dhaka...
The country鈥檚 apex trade body Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry on Sunday urged businesses to prevent and regulate the supply of substandard fire safety equipment on the market聽to ensure safety of residential, commercial and industrial establishments...
