B.C. LUMBER WORKER

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Sloan Commission Hears [WA

Safety Demands

More effective co-ordination
_ of all accident prevention pro-
- grams through a Joint Advisory
Safety Council, attached in an
advisory capacity to the Safety
Branch of the Workmen’s Com-
pensation Board was proposed
this week for submission to
the Sloan Commission,
This ‘safety council for the

lumber industry would include
equal representation, as nomin-

ated by employers and employ-
ees, it was recommended.

The special accident prevention
section of the brief prepared by
the IWA District Safety Council,
and approved by the District
Council, pointed to the need for
a more comprehensive educa-
tional and enforcement program
to ensure the observance of
safety rules on all operations.

Three Pictures; Three Dangers;
Where Safety Always Pays

1 Topping a spar tree is a job that demands constant and

alert observance of every safety precaution.

One care-

less move, a momentary neglect of equipment, lack of quick co-
ordination of mind and muscle, might easily write “finis” for
the man who “goes up”. Safety precautions have substantially
reduced the ratio of fatalities among men, who combine daring
with skill and caution in their spectacular work.

2. Rugged country, rugged work, which needs rugged men.

A scene which illustrates the type of logging operations
now required in rougher and less accessible country, employing
more power. The set-up for yarding, loading and trucking,
with-a well-prepared landing is here shown.

3, A mechanical stacker at work in a lumber yard. This type

of machine caused a recent fatality. A new gear had been
installed, causing it to operate too fast. It was used for two by
twelves, when designed only for two by tens. The safety warn-
ing posted regarding its operation was ignored. Not all men on
the pile had been supplied with “hard hats”.

Result—the planks started “flipping” as they came over the
top. A man newly assigned to this work without instruction

was hit on the head by a plank and killed.

RWOWECGETTER

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COMDERS SHOULD MEVER FORGET
70 GUARO AGAINST FLYING TONG:

The proposed Council, it was
suggested, would act as a clear-
ing-house for ideas and informa-
tion and enable agreement on
publicity and educational work
for safety;

More adequate staff for inspec-
tion to include men with experi-
ence in logging and mill-work
was urged. Authority to stop un-
safe operations instantly was also
sought.

Improved facilities for safety
training on a basis that would
provide instruction for all work-
ers in the industry was outlined.
It was contended that safety
training should be conducted at
regular intervals, and without
loss of pay to workers attending
the classes. :

The Commissioner was invited
to consider the advisability of re-
quiring certificates of competency
in the observance of safety rules
for key men, on whose decisions
the lives of others might depend.

The importance of placing men
with experience in the industry
on coroners’ juries was empha-
sized, together with the desirabil-
ity of widely publicizing any rec-
ommendations attached to’ their
verdicts.

Encouragement and freedom
for job accident prevention com-
mittees was also stressed. Com-
mittees should be activized
wherever ten or more men are
employed, it was stated, and
their powers to halt unsafe op-
lerations extended.

The activities of the IWA to
promote education in safety pre-
cautions were detailed and sub-
mitted in evidence. Details of |
| fatal accidents, which might have |
been prevented were placed be-
|fore the Commission of Enquiry

CAREY’S DEATH

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A rigger, rated as one of the
best in the logging industry,
offers the following advice as
the cure for the type of acci-
dent illustrated in the last issue
of the B.C. Lumber Worker,
and which caused the death of
J. E. Carey.

“A balsam stump is soft wood
and should not have been used
as the front stump because hav-
ing one wrap and then taken
back to another stump would
cause an excess squeeze and cause
the balsam to cut off.

“This was increased by the
back stump being on higher con-
tour, causing the skyline to have
a lifting effect on the balsam,
thereby causing the line to shear
off.

“It is not a good policy to wrap
a stump and then go back to an-
other stump unless both are in
fairly straight line, even on level
ground, as the strain on the front
stump comes first and it will be
tight lined out by the bight either
to the side or up.

“If the stumps were far apart,
a ten-foot bight would not cause

{excess strain, but the fact that

the tail hold was on a side hill,
the stumps must have been close
together. Had they been far
apart, the greater would the lift
have been on the balsam,

“The front stump might have
held had it been wrapped and
spiked in the usual manner and
then bridled to others on the same

|for consideration.

WOM, <

contour.”

On behalf of the
IWA, I wish all memb
mas and a Happy, Pros;

As the end of the fii
draws near, I also a
helped us with the

Especially we
the District officers
time and effort the

We would like to be
“Relax, and take a two-w

cessation in the wa:
whether we are at W
Let us TRY, however

selves a Christmas gift
season. E
We propose the folloy
for all workers in the in
to use machinery or
iliar. I will help my fe
will not gamble my lif
more dollars. I will he
job to maintain and
regulations.

I will work and play |
Merry Christmag