May 11, 1950 B.C. LUMBER WORKER Page Seven te disregard With gasoline, powder, will happen. to good safety practice.’ by Local 1-71, LWA, to the of accident pre- Dj sult of poor falling supervision, poor loading, and generally poor, isupervision. ! Gynamite, caps, fallen sapling, and dead 235005 : eel powder, sets the accident ge, except quantities for INTERLOCKED LOADS, contrary to regulations, reported as re-! QUESTION—Should the chaser be where he is, doing what he’s doing? Take it up with the Safety Committee. IS YOUR OPERATION INCLUDED IN WCB 49 SAFETY AWARDS? WARD certificates for safety performances have been instituted by the Workmen’s Compensation Board as a challenge to operators and employees te beat “the other fellow’s” record of accident prevention. Awards for 1949 have already been worked out by the Board, using seven different categories, ranging from multiple operations to the smallest “show”. ‘The awards are based on the lowest accident frequency rate, calculated on the exposure in man hours of operation. ~ This method is considered more reliable than an index based on production output or other gauge, and does not take into ‘considera- tion the severity’ of injuries which, the W.C.B. reckons, is lar’ ly- a matter of chance or circumstances, i It wouldn’t be fair, either, to compare operations that differ ivo greatly in size. In the larger operations, there are, of course, a bigger percentage of the men exposed to a lower-than-average hazard, Large operators with multiple operations. Individual operations with annual exposure more than 700,000 man-hours. (Working force over 350.) “C”— 300,000 to 700,000 man-hours (150 to 350 men). “D"— 100,000 to 300,000 man-hours (50 to 150 men). “E”— 70,000 to 100,000 man-hours (35 to 50 men). “F"— 30,000 to 70,000 man-hours (15 to 35 men). “G”—Covers a very large number of the smaller operations, whose accident frequency is based on a cumulative period of 30,000 man-hours. : The industry, too, has been split into the following classifications for purposes of the award: 1, Logging west of the Cascades. 2. Logging east of the Cascades. 3. Log Hauling. 4. Sawmills and Shingle mills. 5. Sash and Door and Veneer plants. Winners for 1949 are: Logging West of Cascades: “A” Logging Division, Powell River Co., frequency rate of 100.84. “B”— Englewood Division, Canadian Forest Products, 104.17. “C”— Northwest Bay Logging, 72.13. “D”— Morgan Logging, 88.85. “E’— Logging Division, Kapoor Sawmills, 67.42. “P"— Coombs Timber, 53.48. “G”— E. R. and J. H. Glover, in three years’ exposure of 31,882 man hours with rate of 62.63. Logging East of Cascades: “D"— Cranbrook Cartage, 118.15. “E”— Sinclair Spruce Mills, 75.89. “E”— Columbia Contracting, 57.46. i “G”— Summerland Box, 30,182 man-hours in 18 months without an accident. Log Hauling: Don MacKenzie Trucking, 38,529 man-hours without an accident. Sawmill and Shingle Mills: A “A”— Canadian Western Lumber, 25.16. “B”— Cowichan Division, B.C, Forest Products, 17.64. “C”— Robertson & Hackett, 23.42. “D”— Anderson Bros., 18.23. “£"— Pondosa Pine, 12.93. is “F"— Plateau Lumber, no accidents in 1949, “@”— Fraser Box, 38,728 man-hours in 17 months without an accident. . Plywood Industry: Alberni Plywoods, 18.77. Sash and Door: “D"— Evans Products, 4.40. “RE” and “F”—Vancouver Sash and Door, 16.85. “G"— Helmer Sash and Door, 40,008 man-hours in three years without an accident, — Warning that inexperienced | ough instruction before engag- was given by the coroner’: at the inquest held in Nanaimo, following the accidental death of 18-year-old Ronald Allan |the clear. MacDonald at Island Industries logging camp, Nanaimo Lakes. | JURY RAPS LACK OF TRAINING IN LOGGING DEATH t On his second day in the woods, no blame was attached to any- signal. men should be given more thor- |ehe deceased was struck in the chest by the end of a log when i E ing in hazardous logging work, ;the butt hung up on a stump.,4° years’ experience, stated that dent Joe Morris, Local 1-80, IWA, jury | Death resulted in a few minutes If he had stepped back anothe 12 inches, he would have been in one. A member of the jury with Iquest was attended by Presi- many greeri men ure now em- and the evidence was reported ployed in the woods, but that it;hy him to the District Safety is the responsibility of the rig-|Committee. He stated that the ging’slinger to see that all men | tragedy illustrated the need for The coroner’s jury found that : ure in the clear before giving the | safety training on the job. DONT TOSS THAE PEELINES ON TIE FLOOR, LEST SOME GUY SLIPS AND PLS HS GORE!