THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

a SAFETY PAGE

ALBERTA SAFETY TOUR FINDS
GREATER JOB CARE NEEDED

By ANDY SMITH
Regional Safety Director
After having recently tour-

ed the Southern Alberta IWA
Local 1-206, I was pleased to
note the improvement in many
of the operations I had visited
previously, both in house-
keeping and work procedure.
However, in one operation —
the General Coach Works in
Lethbridge which is an assem-
bly line operation and was the
first opportunity I have had
to observe this type of work—
I would like to bring to the
attention of both management
and the union that there were
certain operations being per-
formed wherein I feel the
technique can be improved
upon to provide a greater

margin of safety for the work-

ers, and I would again sug-
gest that a job analysis pro-
gram be put into effect to up-
grade the job procedures in
many areas.

SAFETY EDUCATION

It is important to distinguish
between safety education and
safety training. Education
deals primarily with develop-
ing one’s mind, broadening
one’s knowledge and under-
standing. One can properly be
said to have an education in
a specific field only if his
knowledge of that field is
reasonably broad and thor-
ough. Training, on the other
hand, deals primarily with the
development of skills*in per-
formance. The following are
brief definitions.

Safety Education — To de-
velop safety consciousness, a
vivid awareness of the im-
eienee of Becucainating acci-

dents and a mental alertness
in recognizing and correcting
conditions and practices that
might lead to injury.

Safety Training — Develop-
ing the worker’s skill in the
use of safe work techniques
and practices. In general, the

_ degree of success will depend

on the thoroughness with
which the principle that skill
is achieved only by doing is
applied. It is necessary to
establish a safe method of
performing each job operation
or sequence of operations and
describe in simple and ade-
quate detail various hazard
points that must be brought
to light and clearly described
tog ee with the relationship
beeen these and the vari-
ous steps in the safe proce-
dure. A change of jobs means
an adjustment for the indi-
eidual, and the foreman or
supervisor should tell him,
show him, have him do it,
and correct him until he has
it, and supervise him to see
that he keeps it. If such a
program is put into effect it
will go a long way in estab-
lishing a safe place to work.

SAFETY SEMINAR

A safety committee seminar
was held in Fort Macleod on
April 27th with committee
members from all operations

attending. I also visited the .

Celgar woods operation at
Nakusp and attended a safety
committee meeting. Work pro-
cedures appeared adequate
and if everyone will bear in
mind that safety depends on
him this operation should end
up with an enviable record.

IEGAPOINTS 10
IEMALGLiUEl's

FORT MACLEOD SAFETY SEMINAR

The Working Man's
3 Best Friends:

(1) A cool head
(2) Steady hands

and

(3) Well-shod feet

(DAYTON'S of course)

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