Industrial & Manufacturing Security Solutions

Accord Compliance. Workforce Security. Factory-Floor Safety. All Delivered.

Bangladesh is the world's second-largest ready-made garment exporter, shipping more than USD 47 billion worth of apparel annually. Behind that statistic are 4,500+ garment factories employing over four million workers. International buyers — H&M, Zara, Primark, Gap, M&S, and dozens more — have made fire safety and building safety compliance a non-negotiable condition of their sourcing agreements. The Accord on Fire and Building Safety (now the International Accord), the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), and the Remediation Coordination Cell (RSC) all set standards that your factory must meet to retain buyer relationships and export orders worth crores of taka.

SSAL is Bangladesh's specialist partner for industrial and manufacturing security and safety. We understand the Accord audit checklist, the BGMEA requirements, and the operational realities of a factory running three shifts with 5,000 workers. We bring fire safety, surveillance, access control, and communications solutions that protect your workers, satisfy your buyers, and keep your export orders flowing.

Bangladesh Industrial Sector Overview

Bangladesh's industrial base is dominated by the ready-made garment sector, which accounts for more than 84% of total export earnings. The sector's concentration in Ashulia, Gazipur, Narayanganj, Chittagong EPZ, and Dhaka EPZ creates industrial clusters where security and safety standards are scrutinised by buyers, auditors, trade unions, and international bodies on an ongoing basis.

The Rana Plaza collapse of 2013 fundamentally changed the global sourcing industry's approach to Bangladesh factory compliance. The Accord on Fire and Building Safety, established in its original form in 2013, created legally binding obligations on signatory brands and their Bangladesh suppliers. The International Accord, its successor, continues to enforce fire safety, electrical safety, and building structural integrity standards across participating factories. Factories that cannot pass Accord inspections lose buyer relationships — and in a sector built on long-term sourcing partnerships, that is an existential risk.

Beyond RMG, Bangladesh's BEPZA (Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority) zones — Chittagong EPZ, Dhaka EPZ, Comilla EPZ, and others — host electronics, leather goods, ceramics, and pharmaceutical manufacturers with their own security and safety obligations. The BEPZA zone authority sets infrastructure standards, and zone administrators conduct periodic compliance audits. Industrial security is not optional in these environments.

SSAL's Integrated Industrial Security and Safety Solution

Factory security and safety is an operational integration challenge. Your fire alarm system must be heard above factory floor noise levels. Your access control system must handle 500 workers arriving simultaneously at shift changeover without creating dangerous crowding. Your CCTV must cover production floors in high-ambient-light conditions without colour distortion. Your perimeter security must operate reliably in Dhaka's climate — heat, dust, humidity, and monsoon rainfall.

Our integrated industrial security framework is engineered for the factory environment. We select equipment rated for industrial ambient conditions. We design access control systems with the throughput capacity to handle your peak shift changeover volumes. We position fire detectors in compliance with Accord technical standards and commission them to sensitivity levels appropriate for your production environment. We conduct factory-wide fire evacuation drills with your team before handover.

We also manage the documentation that your auditors need. SSAL provides Accord inspection-ready documentation for every fire safety system we install, including as-built drawings, commissioning test records, detector sensitivity settings, and maintenance records. Your factory compliance manager has everything they need to pass the next Accord technical audit.