Solutions to prevent another Bangladesh tragedy

In the billions of words of commentary about the Rana Plaza catastrophe, it seemed to me few people grasped that six different things had to happen for the catastrophe to happen at all, and two others for the death toll to be so immense. Had buyers, activists, factory management, local or national governments acted differently, things would have been different. 

TheMay FlanaRant pointed out how each responsible group failed to act properly. And it made one modest proposal: that buyer need to establish a direct relationship with works, over the heads of factory managers and the activists that purport to represent them.

Two days after the Rant was published, it turned out Adidashad been trialling just such a direct line in Indonesia since 2012. And was rolling it out.

Great minds, it seem, think alike