DHAKA (AFP) ― Western fashion brands faced pressure Thursday to honor promises to care for Bangladesh’s victims of the world’s worst garment factory accident, ahead of protests on the first anniversary of the disaster that cost 1,138 lives.

Workers are set to stage demonstrations in front of the site of the now infamous nine-storey Rana Plaza complex in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, which collapsed last April after a catastrophic structural failure.

“Brands are failing workers a second time,” Ineke Zeldenrust from the Amsterdam-based Clean Clothes Campaign pressure group said in a statement on Thursday.

“First they failed to ensure the factories they bought from were safe, and now they are failing the survivors and the families of those who lost loved ones.”

As well as the dead, more than 2,000 were injured in an avoidable tragedy that focused attention on the lax safety standards and often abusive working conditions in the world’s second-biggest clothing producer.

The sector’s most deadly disaster ever shamed Western brands into launching new safety inspections and pushed Bangladesh’s government to increase wages and ensure the better enforcement of regulations.

But trade union group IndustriALL slammed retailers this week for making “woefully inadequate” contributions to a proposed $40 million fund set up to compensate the families of the dead and the injured.

Only $15 million has been deposited and the first payments of $640 for each of the survivors and families of the deceased were made only this week.

Others are angry at local authorities for the slow progress in identifying the 140 workers still missing since the collapse, while the owner of the building has yet to be charged by police.

“One year after Rana Plaza collapsed, far too many victims and their families are at serious risk of destitution,” Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch said in a statement.