Assessment of Fire Risk in the Readymade Garment Industry in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Fire Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1127-1145

  Wadud, Zia ^a,b   Huda, Fuad Yasin ^c   Ahmed, Nizam Uddin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

^c MILITARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Fire risk index; Random sampling; Readymade garment; Risk assessment; Safety assessment; Soft parameters

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS; CURBS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INDUSTRY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

FIRE RISK INDEX; RANDOM SAMPLING; READYMADE GARMENTS; SAFETY ASSESSMENTS; SOFT PARAMETERS;

FIRES;

EID: 84901231878     PISSN: 00152684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10694-013-0349-2     Document Type: Article

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