LOCAL 1-80

JOINT SAFETY

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A highly successful Joint
Safety Seminar was held in
Local 1-80’s Headquarters in
Duncan, May 5, with nearly
one hundred people in atten-
dance.

The format of the Seminar
was drawn up by the officers of
the Local Union, management
of the major forest companies
in the area, and by the Work-
men’s Compensation Board.

The participating companies
agreed to pay the wages of
employees attending and the
Local Union provided lunch
and the use of the hail.

The Seminar was under the
direction of Jack Mumm,
Local 2nd Vice-President and
Bob MacDonald, Local 3rd
Vice-President.

-CONFERENCE

Keynote speaker was Mr. J.
D. Paton, Director of the Acci-
dent Prevention Department of
the Workmen’s Compensation
Board, who spoke on the role
pieyes by the WCB throughout

Following his address vari-
ous’ speakers from manage-
ment and the union safety
committees reported on the
measures taken in their opera-
tions to reduce accidents.

Addresses were also given
by WCB Inspectors Mike
Severen and John Maxwell
who were questioned at length
at the conclusion of their talks
by the audience.

The general concerisus was

_ that the conference had been

well worth while and more of
them should be held.

TOP AND BOTTOM PICTURES show some of those: who
actively participated in the two-day seminar. Top picture
left, Dale Tuckey, Production Manager at MacMillan-
Bloedel’s Chemainus Division; Jack Mumm, Local 1-80
Second Vice-President and Safety Director; John Maxwell,
WCB Mill Inspector; Harry Jaeck, Plant Chairman at
Canadian White Pine, Vancouver; Larry Walt, Joint Safety
Chairman at W.F.1. Honeymoon Bay. Bottom picture left,
Les Way, Manager of B.C.F.P.‘s Cowichan Logging
Division; George Norris, Council of Forest Industries; Bob
MacDonald, Local 1-80 Third Vice-President; Harry
Erickson, Safety Council Chairman of Crown Zellerbach’s
Ladysmith Nanaimo Lakes operation; Mike Severn, WCB

Logging Inspector.

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