Workplace safety Avoiding the fire next time 工作场所安全.docx

【导读】：孟加拉楼房倒塌警醒利益各方加紧提升工厂安全状况...Workplace safety工作场所安全Avoiding the fire next time厂房倒塌，事不过二After the Dhaka factory collapse, foreign clothing firms are under pressure to improve working conditions at Bangladeshi suppliers—or to go elsewhere达卡厂房倒塌事件过后，孟加拉境内的外国服装公司正面临重重压力：要么改善工作环境，要么迁至别处May 4th 2013 | DHAKA AND NEW YORK |From the print editionTHE fire that swept through the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York in 1911, killing 146 peoplne, was the catalyst for big improvements in industrial working conditions in America. The collapse on April 24th of Rana Plaza—an eight-storey complex of clothing factories, near Dhaka, Bangladesh—was far deadlier, killing at least 400. Although the tragedy has led to calls for safer factories in Bangladesh and other developing countries, it is far from certain that this will happen.1911年发生在纽约的Triangle Shirtwaist工厂火灾事故夺走了146条生命，也成为了促进美国工业工人工作条件提升的催化剂。今年4月12日孟加拉发生了一起更为严重的事故：位于孟加拉首都达卡市附近的八层大楼拉纳广场（Rana Plaza）轰然倒塌——楼内有数家制衣厂——至少400人死亡。虽然悲剧过后人们纷纷呼吁孟加拉及其他发展中国家加强工厂安全保障，但能否落实却还远远不能确定。After the New York fire, protests by trade unionists led to new laws being passed, and enforced. Factory owners and their customers took the higher costs on the chin: in those less globalised times there was nowhere else for them to go. In Bangladesh today, things are more complicated. Its trade unions are suppressed more aggressively than they ever were in America. It already has building regulations that should have prevented the collapse—but they were not enforced. Some two dozen factory owners are members of parliament. The factories’ foreign customers have plenty of other low-cost countries they could switch their work to.纽约火灾后贸易工会发起抗议，促使新的法律得以通过，并开始执行。工厂主连同他们的主顾被迫忍气吞声，成本消耗加大，因为在那个全球化程度低下的年代，他们“无处可逃”。然而，如今孟加拉的情况要复杂得多。虽然贸易工会的抗议远比当年在美国来得强烈，防止工厂倒塌的法规业已形成，但这些规范却没能付诸实施。国会中工厂主占了24席，工厂的外国主顾也完全可以转向其他低成本国家。Some well-known American firms are said to be contemplating doing just that—not because they fear that higher standards in Bangladeshi factories will raise costs, b