We must do more than mourn DG tragedies - we must change behaviours

Corpwatch: “We haven’t found any basic fire safety measures. There were simply some extinguishers. Nothing else. They didn’t follow storage guidelines for hazardous chemicals." Credit Corpwatch.

Initial responses to the Chittagong fire disaster have ranged from anger to sadness.

But this has happened before; and many believe the rage and upset ultimately turn into apathy.

The tragedies in Tianjin in 2015 and Beirut in 2020 were very similar in many ways; there is certainly a sense of deja vu, suggesting little has changed. It’s too easy for the industry to let the narrative to blow itself out, allowing yet another meaningless tragedy to pass into history.

While callous and ...