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OCAL 1-417 FORMS
EW SAFETY COUNCIL

resulted in outstanding suc-
cess, when the First Annual
Safety Conference of Kam-
_ loops Local 1-417 wound up on
' November 17th., in the new
].W.A. hall in North Kamloops.

Forty delegates from camps
and plants throughout the far-
flung local, assembled to con-
duct the business aimed at
creating an improved safety

am, and.to increase the
program of education for
members and committee men
involved in the Accident Pre-
vention Program.

The assembly was called to
order by local president S.
Alexandre with the first order
of business being election of
five safety council officers.
who will head up the safety
council and coordinate the
Local Safety Program.

Jack Kerssens, the local
Safety Director, was elected as
chairman of the council,
together with Ted MacDonald
serving as first vice, Ed Robin-
- son as Second Vice President,
Vie Fast voted in as Third
Vice, while Larry Viers will

Many weeks of preparation.

serve as Council Secretary.

This new'Safety Council com-
prises the third I.W.A. Local to
take the step in accordance
with the regional safety policy,
and holding the first Annual
Safety Conference in conjunc-
tion with the development will
enable the local to step up the
program and liven up the Plant
and Camp Committees, by
being able to communicate
more regularly with up to date
information.

The conference processed
twenty-two safety resolutuions
presented by resolutions cam-
mittee chairman Frank
Munro, and Secretary Les
Lawless. These resolutions
arose from the various opera-
tions and sub-locals in the
Kamloops Local, and covered
a broad variety of safety sub-
jects, primarily dealing with
job hazards and job safety
training.

Turing the course of the con-
ference, a display of safety de-
vices drew the interest of dele-
gates. Ken Baynten of Fleck
Safety Supply was on hand for
advice and demonstration.

Participating in the program
were W.C.B. Inspectors Joe
Mundock and Nick Nazaroff,
dealing with inspections and
accident prevention, while
Gerry Edwards from the
W.C.B. Rehabilitation section
presented a sequence on
Reports and Communications.

Featured speaker of the con-
ference was Regional Safety
Director Max Salter, who
pointed up the aims and objec-
tives ot the new I.W.A. Safety
Program, and highlighted the
struggle involved in seeking
controls and preventions on the
modern hazards of noise,
chemicals and other aspects of
Industrial Hygiene, and
primed the conference
delegates to greater involve-
ment in’ increased safety
education at all levels.

Official guests included Tom
McCrae, from Local 1-85, Port
Alberni Safety Director, who
spoke on the role of the council,
I.W.A. Safety Program, and
outlined some of the pitfalls
and experiences of the recently
formed council‘in the Port Al-
berni Local.

LOCAL 1-417 PRESIDENT Sonny Alexandre, right, installs officers of the Local Safety
Council. Group left, Jack Kerssens, Chairman; Ted McDonald, Ist Vice-Chairman; Ed.
Robinson, 2nd Vice-Chairman; Vic Fast, 3rd Vice-Chairman; Larry Viers, Secretary.

FE THE FORTY DELEGATES attending the Ist Annual Safety Conference of Local

SAFETY COMMITTEE MEMBERS at Canadian Forest
Products’ Stave Lake Cedar operation. Front row, left, J.
Glasson, J. Leask. Back row, left, M. Rotluff, R. Goertz, B.

Papp. Absent from picture was L. Pallman.

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CANFOR STAVE LAKE CEDAR Joint Safety Committee

Meeting.

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| CANFOR GROUP TO STUDY
| PLANT SAFETY PROBLEMS

A joint safety meeting spon-
sored by the Canfor Stave Lake
Cedar Joint Safety Committee,
was held at the Dewdney
operation recently. The
meeting included Regional
Safety Director Max Salter,
W.C.B. Inspection department
officers D. Watts and S.
Peterson, as well as ‘‘Rusty”
Rustemeyer representing
Canadian Forest Products as
head of the safety program.

Roundtable discussions in-
cluded frank examination of
the procedures used for Ac-
cident Prevention Inspections
and the methods employed in
Accident Investigations and
thé resultant recommenda-
tions.

Speaking for the crew were
J. Glasson, secretary of the
joint committee, J. Leask, M.
Rotluff, R. Goertz, B. Papp and
L. Pallman, the plant first aid
attendant.

Plans were developed to
improve the participation in
the safety program, including
tentative plans for a complete
mill inspection by the full joint
committee, the local and —
regional safety directors and
top safety representatives of
management, and the Work-
man’s Compensation Board, to
seek answers to some inherent
problems in the mill and to
develop better communica-
tions at all levels.

RALPH NADER REPORT
SCORES ACCIDENT STUDIES

The contention that most
accidents on the job are caused
by worker carelessness has
been challenged. In Bitter
Wages, the report of Ralph
Nader’s Study Group on
Disease and Injury on the Job,
reference is made to two stu-
dies on industrial accidents.

One study, conducted in 1910,
showed that although 90 per-
cent of accidents resulted from
some form of human failure, 88
per cent of these could have
been prevented by proper
management supervision. A
1967 study of industrial injuries
in Pennsylvania concluded
that about 26 per cent of acci-

dents in that state were caused
by worker carelessness.

The report also attacks the
statistics compiled by the Wis-
consin Department of Indus-
try, Labor, and Human Rela-
tions. Comissioned by the U.S.
Department of Labor, the Wis-
consin group sent out forms to
be completed solely by em-
ployers and asking only whe-
ther the employee was intoxi-
cated, failed to use a safety
device, or did not obey rules.
Nader’s group claims that such
a form allows employers to
foster the belief that industrial
accidents are caused by care-
less employees rather than
hazardous conditions.

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