Business Desk :
The Board of Directors of the RMG Sustainability Council (RSC) held a Board meeting at a city hotel on Saturday. The meeting was convened by Dan Rees, Director, Better Work, ILO and Neutral Convener of the RSC, and attended by all 18 Directors representing industry, brands and unions.
Iqbal M Hussain, MD and Acting CSO conducted the meeting with great preparation and assistance for RSC staff.
It was a productive and fruitful meeting with participation of all the Directors where the RSC Board took a number of decisions related to the operational issues of the RSC, especially its financial sustainability and longevity, a press release said.
During the meeting, the Board of Directors were pleased to hear the progress made by the organisation over the past two years, despite the challenges presented by COVID 19. The funding of the RSC is also secure, with member brands and industry members contributing jointly to operational costs.
Directors’ discussion was focused on how to make the RSC more dynamic in
its operations and with the phase of COVID coming to an end, speed up its activities in the coming days to ensure world-class safety in the RMG
industry of Bangladesh.
The discussions also encompassed a long-term plan to further develop the organization to achieve its primary objective of delivering world-class sustainable workplace safety programmes in the RMG industry of Bangladesh to keep it safer and better place to work.
The RSC board asserted that the RSC would be instrumental in sustaining the accomplishments made by RMG sector in workplace safety and sustainability. During the meeting, Iqbal M Hussain, the MD and acting CSO of the RSC, gave an overview of the organisation’s overall performance. He appraised the board that despite significant challenges posed by COVID- 19 pandemic and nation-wide lockdowns, the RSC conducted 5,750 inspections in 15 months (for 6 month no inspection was held due to COVID-19 pandemic) and has been able to reduce the number of Corrective Action Pan (CAP) of the behind schedule factories by 4 per cent.
He added that the number of initial CAP completed factories improved by 8 per cent.
