So Nice Garments (Pvt) Ltd.

House N0. 20, Block B, Ward No. 5, Ashulia, Savar, Dahaka.

SAFETY POLICY/PROCEDURE
For the overall safety of the product SO NICE exercise/implements following safety procedure.

METAL FREE PRODUCTION AREA: All production areas in the factory must be completely free of all metal objects, which are not required. Production areas include, sample room, cutting room, finishing section, packing section, embroidery and stores. a. The production areas must be completely free of pins or any sharp instruments or objects. b. No staples in patterns, templates or finish boards. c. No staples in production books kept in production areas. d. No staples or pins for attaching markers to lays. e. No paper clips or staples in documents. f. No pins used for pocket placement. g. There must be no sewing needles or needle parts loose in the production area. see needle procedure. h. There must be no parts of poppers or studs loose in the production area. i. There must be no other dangerous pieces of metal in the production area. for example : Wire, screws, nails, cutting blades and other metal items used by mechanics or workmen. factory employees must not leave keys, jewelery, hair, clips or other metal objects loose on tables or machines. NEEDLE POLICY: Daily needle inventory. New needles must be kept locked in locked store room cupboard. Needles in use must be firmly secured into machine. Broken and blunt needles must be taped into the broken needle file with all the needle parts. There must be no needles in any other location within the factory, including no needles in operators tables drawers. no needles on or in supervisors table. no nedles in machine oil bath. no needles loose in mechanics workshop. no needles in mechanics pockets.

 no needles in machines not in use. no needles on floor. 3. Al sewing machines must be included in the needle procedure including all machines in the sample room, needles in kimball tag guns must also be included. 4. Al pieces of a broken or blunt needle must be handed over to the supervisor before a new needle is issued. the supervisor must immediately stick all pieces into the broken needle file in a straight line. he / she must check the needle is complete and fill in all the details. the supervisor must not issue a new needle unless he/she is satisfied that all parts have been found. 5. Must keep a big magnet with supervisor/designated needle control staff in sewing floor to find all the parts of broken needle. 6. If all parts of the needle cannot be found, all garment parts in the immediate area must be moved from the main production area and thoroughly searched using the metal detector/big magnet. if the needle part is not found all immediate areas garments including the main suspected garment have to take out and pass thru the needle detector machine. and finally the concern garment/garments has to destory. keep record it properly. 7. QC. supervisor/manager must randomly check and sign needle file/register daily.

METALIC TOOLS USED IN FLOOR: All metal tools used in production must be secured to ensure they do not accidentally fall inside a garment. clippers must be tied to the top of the machine or the operator using strong cord if necessary these must be tied to the table with a strong cord with limited length. scissors must be tied to the table with a limited length. other tools such as tweezers, notch punches, and spikers for making drill holes, pattern tracers, etc. must be tied in limited length. NOTE: where it is not practical to tie certain tools to the table, a log sheet system must be adopted. All tools must be logged out of a locked cupboard, and must be logged back every day. this includes spikes for pin laying. Hand needles must also have a log sheet, to be kept with the q.c.m hand work should be in a segregated part of the factory away from the main production areas.(this is applicable if such any style/order need to use hand needle). METAL DETECTION: 1. All childrenwear must be successfully passed through an approved metal detector before being shipped. 2. Metal detectors should only detect ferrous metals.

3. Metal detector should be calibrated to detect metal objects of diameters as requested by the buyers, the machine must only be adjusted by a trained engineer or mechanic. Under no circumstances should the metal detector operators make adjustments. 4. A supervisor using an approved test card must check the metal detector three times a day. the results of the test must be recorded on a metal detector log sheet. 5. If the metal detector fails to detect the test card during a test, the machine must be recalibrated the card should be mounted on a 2 piece of foam. 6. Wherever possible, garments should be passed through the metal detector with hangtags attached and packed in poly bags. Test packaging materials individually to ensure they do not trigger the alarm. 7. All trims, especially metal items such as poppers and zips must be tested through the metal detector as soon as they are received to ensure they do not contain ferrous metal. 8. The packing area must have sign boards, so that checked and unchecked garments are kept completely separate. POPPER AND STUD ATTACHING OPERATION 1. Poppers, rivets and studs must be checked to ensure they meet the buyers requirements and carefully inspecting to ensure they have no rough or sharp edges. 2. Machinery used for attaching poppers, rivets or studs must be kept in a segregated area of the production floor (away from the production lines). 3. Poppers and studs must be attached through a minimum of two layers of fabric. they must not be attached over uneven fabric (e.g. on seams or embroidery). 4. Whilst in operation, all unattached poppers, rivets and studs must be kept securely in the storeroom. 5. The customer before bulk production must set popper and stud grip strength. WASHED GARMENTS 1. Garments must not be washed using pumice stone unless specifically requested by a buyer. (small stones left in the garments are very dangerous, in addition, pumice stones contain traces of metal, which will trigger the metal detector. 2. Where stone or sand wash has been specifically requested. all traces of stone and dust must be removed. BUTTON ATTACHING 1. All buttons must be attached using lock stitch button machine with a minimum of 14 stitches for a two hole (chain stitch is not acceptable for childrens wear). 2. Functional buttons must be attached through at least two plys of fabric. 3. Must check with PULL TEST machine. BUTTON HOLE 1. Buttonhole openings must be sewn through at least two pliess of fabric. 2. Buttonholes should be sewn using lock stitch machine, except on jackets. 3. Button hole openings should be 2mm bigger than the button. THREAD ENDS/DRAWCORDS

1. All thread ends must be cut and removed (especially in the sewing lines itself before each in-line q.c.station). even short thread ends are a safety issue on childrens garments and are totally unacceptable 2. Long, floats or threads on the reverse side of knitted fabrics are not acceptable. 3. Length of the drawcords, loose lace etc has to be as per buyers suggested length. No way can it be with excess length. EMBROIDERY 1. All backing material must be removed from around the edge of the embroidery and from any large areas within the embroidery. 2. Loops of embroidery thread are not acceptable. 3. All float threads must be trimmed to 0.5 cm. 4. All embroidery must be secure and not unravel. NECK STRETCH 1. Standard neck stretch: 0-8 years = 28 cm 8-13 years = 30 cm 2. Minimum neck stretch must be checked and achieved on all garments. PACKING 1. Metal objects such as pins, staples or paper clips must not be used for packing childrens garments. 2. All bags used to pack and send shipments must be printed with a safety warning. WOODEN SURFACES 1. All wooden surfaces must be smooth and plain. Some cases boxes should be lined with plastic or nylon taffeta to prevent wooden splinters becoming caught in the garments. HOUSEKEEPING 1. General factory housekeeping must be maintained to a very high standard as a safety measure. 2. Work in progress (wip) must be kept to a minimum. 3. Excess raw materials should be disposed of at the end of each production run to prevent build up of stocks. 4. All fittings and fixtures (such as light fittings, window, cupboards etc.) should be kept clean at all times. 5. All machinery should be serviced regularly and records kept. 6. Interior and exterior building structure and decoration should be maintained. CALIBRATION This is the most important issue. Calibration of all electrical / mechanical / electronic / manual equipments which are to be used to guage / measure / count / weigh / rate etc; to be done on a regular interval or as required by the buyer and the records have to be maintained of the same, in the record books / reports and on these equipments also. Calibration procedures could be explained as and when needed, as this is a vast subject identified.

RECORD KEEPING OF RAWMATERIALS: a. All kind of raw materials (incoming and outgoing) must be recorded. b. Company will hire experienced store keeper to perform this job.

FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT AND FIRE DRILL: a. Fire License must keep always updated. b. Must have adequate fire fighting equipment. c. All fire fighting equipments must be effective and updated. d. Should have a fire fighting team they must be aware of their assigned job, knowledge to handle fire fighting equipments. e. Fire drill has to perform regular basis. SECURITY GUARDS: a. Company will hire experience security guards. b. Guards will have in main gates/doors in 24 hours (where applicable) and will perform their duty in shift by rotation. c. Guards will have different log book, checking system to control visitors, strangers, incoming and outgoing goods and theft case. INSPECTION OF SECURITY PROCEDURE The Compliance Manager or the General Manager are authorized to inspect whole security process once a week

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