DHAKA: Safety experts hired by Western retailers such as H&M and Benetton will begin a mass inspection on Wednesday of clothing factories in Bangladesh, nearly a year after 1,135 garment workers died in a building collapse.

Dozens of fire officers and structural engineers will begin inspecting more than 1,500 plants and then recommend safety improvements in an exercise that is expected to last until September.

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