Ensure human rights
Read more about one of our focus areas in our sustainability promise: Ensure human rights.
The safety of textile workers is crucial to us at Lindex and we want to make sure that the workplaces in our whole value chain are safe and healthy. Lindex is part of the Accord which has made workplaces safer for millions of garments workers.
Lindex and the Stockmann Group have been part of the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety since it was launched in the immediate aftermath of the Rana Plaza factory building collapse in 2013. The Accord is an agreement between a large amount of international brands and unions, that was created to ensure safe working environments in which no worker needs to fear fires, building collapses, or other accidents that could be prevented with reasonable health and safety measures.
The collaboration through the Bangladesh Accord has been successful in making workplaces safer for millions of garments workers. Today, the initiative has grown into the International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment Industry. As part of the Stockmann Group, Lindex has signed on to this agreement, which will also expand to more countries to ensure a safe working environment in the garment industry around the world.
The factories are audited with three different inspections on fire safety, electricity and building safety such as calculations on the carrying potential of a building. After each inspection, a corrective action plan with deadlines is set. When the actions are completed they are inspected to make sure that all corrections have been made. Some of the most common violations to fire and building safety found in the Accord audits include missing fire doors, automatic sprinklers or fire alarm systems.