Flex Day Field Trip
October 12, 2008 Flex dayGarment Factory Questions
1. Name one idea you have after this visit that connects to the idea of using resources!
2. Name one idea you have after this visit that relates to the word 'population'.
3. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the top score, how would you rate the quality of the work environment you saw here, and why?
4. What does the word 'export' have to do with today's visit?
5. What do you think the level of safety is here? What makes you think this?
6. How old do you think the workers here are, on average?
7. What is one question you still have about the garment industry here in Bangladesh?
8. What types of issues does this factory cause or help solve in terms of resources here in Bangladesh?
9. What might you say about economic issues based on today's visit?
Do you think the products being manufactured here help or hurt
Bangladesh?
Answer one of the above questions and add two points of observation or reflection from the day abouts the two places we visited (Sterling Styles factory and Up2Date apparel office). Also you can compose a question that you may have from our flex day adventures. You should post these three items on your blog page.
1) answer a question 2) make two observations or reflections (or write your own questions that you may have) Three things in total!
1)Q5)5. What do you think the level of safety is here? What makes you think this?
I think the level of safety depended on which place you were at. If you were at Up2Date apparel office then you were safe because you were just basically around clothes, computers,etc. But, if you went to the sampling room, that wasn't safe because there were machines that can harm you, for example the machine used by tailors to make clothes. Now, if you were at Sterling Styles factory, then it was basically the sampling room at Up2Date apparel office but a lot bigger. Some other places were dangerous at Sterling Styles factory. One of the other places that was unsafe at Sterling Styles, was the finishing room, in this room they used things that could be harmful like needles.
2)An observation that I made was that, to sell their garments they have to do lots of things that help them maintain a standard. I noticed at Sterling Styles factory after going through the process in the finishing room they check the garments to see if needles are still inside the garments.
3)A question that I had was that, to get new workers does the factory need to interview the person who wants to be a worker and does the factory need the new worker to have a specific skill?
