Background: Workers in utility industries are exposed to occupational accidents due to inadequate safety management systems. Accordingly, it is necessary to characterize and compare the available literature on indicators used in safety management practices in the utility industries. Methods: The systematic literature review was based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis statement. This study considered 25 related studies from Web of Science and Scopus databases. Results: Further review of these articles resulted in three mains performance indicators; namely, driven leading indicators, observant leading indicators, and lagging indicators consisting of 15 sub-indicators. Conclusions: Future studies should consider researching a more comprehensive range of utility industries, measuring subjective and objective indicators, integrating risk management into safety management practices, and validating the influence of leading indicators on safety outcomes. Further, researchers recommend including accidents, fatalities, lost time injuries, and near misses in safety outcomes.

The readymade garment RMG industry in Bangladesh has experienced an unprecedented growth .over the last three decades and become a fast growing industry in Bangladesh. This industry plays a vital role in the economy in terms of export earnings, employment generation ,poverty alleviation and empowering the woman. For development of this sector, Bangladesh needs to emphasize on the factory working environment, social issues, labor relations and compliances with codes of conduct. This paper is based on descriptive and inferential research. The paper suggests the improvement of factory activities through compliances and finds out a close relationship between compliance and productivity.

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Quality management system (QMS) ISO 9000 is a major contribution to achieving local and global competition in the industry. Applying the principles of quality management system and adoption of risk management strategies can help the organization sustainablein their business. Moreover, identifying at early stage thepotential risk can have consequentialresultssuch as eliminatingdefects, reducing cost, meetingcustomer satisfaction and also promotingorganization sustainability. In this study, a modelthathas tendency on how the risk management in the new revision of quality management system (QMS) ISO 9001:2015 can influencethe organizational performanceis conceptually proposed.

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