Bangladesh factory owners sweat it out over safety inspections

It took Western safety inspectors about an hour to tour a factory the size of three football fields before ordering a partial shutdown of Sonia & Sweaters, a Bangladeshi clothing supplier to Wal-Mart Stores and Debenhams.

Two weeks later, the group that the inspectors represented changed its mind and allowed the factory to stay open, even though none of the repairs they suggested had been carried out, reports reuters.

Such erratic decision-making poses a new set of problems for Bangladesh’s US$22 billion garments industry, whose safety record has been under the microscope since the collapse of a factory near Dhaka that killed more than 1,100 workers last year

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