They maintain Indian production quality and standards.
"Six workers were not provided protective equipment to properly manually solder iPhone parts together. This included a lack of safety goggles, chemical-resistant gloves, or respirators, need for a "highly hazardous" task according to the document.
Elsewhere, workers were not provided with eye protection, 77 pieces of automated machinery missed "interlock" mechanisms on doors, and there were 262 instances of missing guards on pressing machinery."
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