CSR
Fashion giants fail to escape long shadow of Rana Plaza disaster - Daily Telegraph The Rana Plaza collapse was the deadliest garment industry disaster ever CREDIT: REUTERS Jack Torrance 23 APRIL 2018 • 12:01AM I t was on this day five years ago that cracks began to appear in the walls of Rana Plaza, the ill-fated complex of clothes factories and shops in Savar, 15 miles outside the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka. Though employees were sent home, they returned to work the following day and around 3,100 were inside when the building began to give way. After a power outage, large generators on the roof had been fired up – sending powerful vibrations through the structure and creating more cracks in load-bearing columns. That caused the building’s floors to collapse in on themselves, trapping thousands of workers in a concrete concertina that ultimately killed 1,138 people and left many others with...