www.theinternationaljournal.org > RJEBS: Volume: 02, Number: 04, February-2013 Page 28 Readymade Garments Industry (RMG) Sector in Bangladesh: Is Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) provision will be regulated by the Entrepreneurs or Government? Fazluz Zaman Lecturer, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh Munshi Samaduzzaman Adjunct lecturer, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh Munshi Shamsuzzaman Irfan Adjunct lecturer, Academies Australasia, Sydney, Australia ABSTRACT Bangladesh readymade garments business has shaped an innovation concerning factory engagement in the industrialized division. A resource of inexpensive as well as readily accessible work has backed to the speedy development of the readymade garments (RMG) sector in Bangladesh. The firm work of millions of employees has likewise contributed in constructing the apparels as the utmost export recipient of the nation. Nevertheless, the labor atmosphere of the apparel businesses is not safe, pleasant and vigorous for the employees, particularly for the women employees. Several of the problems of factory employees are connected to the social setting of the workroom. INTRODUCTION In Bangladesh, as in furthermost nations in the west the accountability for wellbeing as well as safety at labour is positioned on the manager, even though the government has certain kind of work-related health upkeep services as well as wellbeing principles. Work-related health service areas are provided as welfares by companies and normally are detached from further unrestricted wellbeing facilities (ILO, 2010). In the unindustrialized nations, numerous of which are experiencing rapid development, the standing of work-related health is progressively comprehended. It is of apprehension that in Bangladesh like further developing nations preceding malnutrition as well as a tall occurrence of communicable illness, nevertheless, the glitches of coverage to work-related threats. The employment regulations in Bangladesh have been outlined which necessitates companies to embark on corrective procedures on work-related safety as well as health. Dearth of consciousness, preparation, non- agreements of OHS values by the companies, the undesirable participation of the employees could not attain the objective of providing protection and wellbeing to the employees as projected by the regulations (ILO, 2010). In Bangladesh, the main deliberations in businesses are advanced production as well as superior financial yields. The foremost finances centered on the company’s advantage. Little significance is concentrated on the collective outlays in terms of effects on employees, people, and the atmosphere. The influences are compounded through unsuitable importance of life reflections, discomfort and sorrow, opportunity charges as well as queries of equity (ILO, 2010). The approximations of straight financial expenses and welfares are frequently completed keeping sideways the moral obligations to the society as an entirety. Entrepreneurs frequently contemplate the regulatory agreements as well as associated executive costs constraining to efficiency. By means of such work-related health and safety concerns rests unnoticed. Stretch has arisen to contemplate the Work-related Wellbeing in its factual essence in a universal approach. The strategy creators, lawmakers, managers, and every other associates of the society necessitate understanding the connection of proper social growth with financial improvement through a scheme of respectable practices of work-related safety and health in labour places of manufacturing growth that stimulates the collective aims. There must be consciousness about significances of not talking as well as non- implementations of work-related safety and health principles.