One very important reason why more than 100 workers (mainly women)
died November 25 in the fire that engulfed Tarzeen Fashions,
a textile plant outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, is because management chose
not to spend the necessary money to prevent such a tragedy from
occurring. In an industrial setting, safety can be a significant
expense. Safety costs money. And, as we all know, money is everything.
During my tenure as a union rep, I once
had a revealing safety-related conversation with a mid-level manager
whom I’ll call “Fred.” An outgoing, talkative man roughly my own age,
Fred liked to boast that because he had a degree in mechanical
engineering, as well as an MBA (both from UCLA), he was exactly the kind
of manager a modern company was looking for.
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