Abstract

Readymade Garments is one of the major foreign currencies earning source in Bangladesh and over the past decades these industries are playing an important role in Bangladesh’s economy. These industries offer massive employment of skilled and unskilled labour. Bangladesh has a long and tragic history of fire related accidents resulting in massive damage across different parts of the country. In the textile industries fire accidents occur very frequently. It results in the deaths of workers as well as significant material and equipment loss. Adaptation of fire safety system is very necessary to save lives and as well as to increase output and improve product quality, which in turn increases earnings and improves the company’s reputation. This paper describes about different fire hazards in various sections in textile industry, causes of fire accidents and the way of preventing these hazards and accidents.

Keywords: Combustible fibres, Massive Employment, Skilled and unskilled labour, Housekeeping, Metallic compounds