This paper offers a view of working practices within the garment and textile (G&T) industry in Bangladesh. The G&T industry accounts for over 84 per cent of Bangladesh exports and is therefore viewed as key to the country’s economic development. This importance is seen in the creation of Export Processing Zones (EPZs), which were created by that state to encourage foreign investment by offering a congenial climate free from cumbersome procedures. Trade unions are outlawed in these areas. Health and safety are poor within the G&T industry. However, the Rana Plaza disaster of 2013, which caused 1,132 deaths and over 2,500 injuries, placed the issue of workplace safety on the international agenda. Arguably, this prompted a change of attitude within Bangladesh and the G&T industry towards health and safety. The presence of international managers appears to have played a significant role in improving health and safety in the working environment, however these international managers do face a range of cultural barriers, which include both language and a different perception of the value of health and safety in the workplace. This paper has adopted a mixed method of both qualitative and quantitative data, collected through interviews and questionnaire surveys within the G&T industry in Bangladesh.

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During thermal‐oxidative ageing of pentaerythritol ester‐based oils a variety of volatile degradation products, eg acids, aldehydes, ketones, esters and O‐heterocyclic compounds are produced. It is shown that quantitative determination of individual acids and carbonyls using GC‐MS and/or HPLC can be used to assess the ageing behaviour of fully formulated aviation turbine oils. Of special importance is the Tenax‐GC method which allows a simultaneous determination of all volatile degradation products by GC‐MS. This is the third of a series of papers on thermal‐oxidative ageing of neopentylpolyol ester oils.1,3