According to data from factory inspections publicly disclosed by the Accord, (an agreement signed by H&M in the wake of the Rana Plaza disaster which killed 1138 workers in 2013), strategic H&M factories are not safe and H&M has failed to honour promises to repair and improve their conditions.
Focusing on the subset of contract factories that H&M has deemed the best performers in its supply chain on labor and environmental issues, the report shows that all of these factories have failed to meet mandated timeframes for repairs and the majority of all renovations have still not been completed despite lapsed deadlines.