Dragon Sweater’s website says its customers include Walmart and C&A.

The reports include photos with arrows pointing to specific safety problems, like cracks in beams.

“By publishing reports and making them easily understandable with photographs, we help the workers and public understand these problems and see that they’re fixable,” said Alan Roberts, executive director of the accord’s international operations. He said many safety repairs had already been made to the first factories inspected.

Separately, Walmart hired Bureau Veritas, a prominent monitoring company, to inspect Dragon Sweater and more than 200 other factories it uses in Bangladesh. Its inspections last April gave Dragon Sweater Cs for electrical and building safety, Walmart’s second-worst grade, and a follow-up assessment in July gave it a B for electrical safety and C for building safety.

The accord’s first wave of inspections focused on buildings with at least five floors that have multiple factories. Building owners are told in advance when the inspections will occur, and are asked to locate relevant documentation, said Joris Oldenziel, a spokesman for the accord. The inspection reports are sent to the factory owner, the Western brands that use the factory and worker representatives at the factory. The recipients were to come up with remediation plans, to be published on the accord’s website within six weeks of the inspection, with the Western brands promising to help finance needed improvements.

“Exits are always a big issue,” Mr. Loewen said. “Usually they have lockable gates across them — they have to be removed. The stairwells have to be separated from the factory floor with fire doors. It’s very common that they need to install fire doors.”

Another common problem was that many factories do not satisfy the accord’s requirement that sprinklers be installed on every floor of a factory building that is 75 feet or higher.