August 17, 1950 B.C. LUMBER WORKER ifety program which lowered Jogging operation?” was the rker to a spokesman of the an award from the Work- n ved for the information of IWA offering useful hints for the not claim perfection, but they are -operation in their program will FEATURES m, sponsored by the H. R. Mac- committee in the operation are: distribution of accident diagram of job hazards. 3 INDUCTION ‘attend a personnel and safety induction the safety program in the operation. policies with respect to health and cy the conferences are not held more fre- low labor turnover helps to keep for dinner, as most of them live at uussions of camp safety and adminis- anager, camp foreman, safety dir- wards of the operation and the means they can go right up the line to the ds if left neglected by the foremen. camp are described with diagrams pre- m ways by which such accidents could 4 shown and discussed. MEETINGS establish safe conditions ot working, d under the IWA master agreement. month, and usually in the evening. fellow-workers, who have shown an are thus made familiar with the pur- y the'committee. lagement that they are at liberty to properly given attention. INING to take a brief course in job safety initiated by the federal authorities itions of the operation. 300 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Transportation ken during working hours, no deduction king hours, the regular rate of pay is BUTED - jot, but which presented possibilities of am, outlining the manner in which the duplicated, and distributed to every em- GATIONS investigate each accident as quickly $ required to conduct their own in- n is utilized in the subsequent discus- tg 2) ‘ . Commissioner E. V. ident B. M. Hofl- aceident_preven- Logging Division. fety Inspector; Com- NORTH WEST BAY LOGGING DIVISION employees and families gather at Rathrevor Park mienign August 5, to witness presentation of Safety Award by officials of Workmen's Compensation Board. Page Seven jaward for north-west bay 2-WAY RADIO AT HOLBERG Installation of a two-way ra- dio system on trucks and cars in the logging operations of the B.C. Pulp and Paper Co., at Holberg Camp, has proven of inestimable value, by enabling speedy first aid and medical treatment for injured loggers, according to reports received from IWA safety men in Lo- cal 1-71, IWA. ately alerted. arations. to clear the and death. The value of two-way radio communication was demonstrated recently when a logger was in- jured on the cold-deck pile. The first aid attendant was immedi- By the time that the injured man reached the trackside, the first aid attendant had a descrip- tion of the injuries and was thus able to make all necessary prep- All logging trucks were ‘warned road when the stretcher case was on the way in and faster and safer transporta- tion than ordinarily, was possible. Use of the radio saves precious moments which otherwise might make the difference between life DON’T BE HALF SAFE! ILD AND WOOLLY though it may look to the spectators, brone-riding, bull-dogging and other rodeo events have stiff rules. And woe to the cowpuncher who violates them. If there were no rules, there would be no football, baseball, or any other sports game. Our entire lives, as a matter of fact, are governed by rules or laws, written or unwritten. If there were no rules or laws, we would be without police: pro- |, tection, and it would then be every man for himself and heaven help the one who couldn’t hold his own. The early history of our own West has showed violently what can happen when the game of life is not played according to Hoyle. When we violate the unwritten laws of health, nature catches up with us, just as the established laws of the land, in general catch up with and punish those who live outside the law. So it is with safety. It is nec- essary, if we are to preserve life and limb, that we be governed by rules that protect us. If there were no rules regulating our ac- tions during working hours, we would soon slip back into that abyss of accidents that we have been so laboriously climbing out for many years. We are not completely out of that abyss yet, and we will climb out only as more and more work- men accept the rules and live strictly by them, at work, at home, on the highways and else- where. 1 Safety pays if you’re careful— you pay if you're not. . Stop! Look, and lessen in- jury. { a SAFETY CERTIFICATE for lowest accident frequency rate in its classification, was awarded to log- ging division of Powell River Co. Ltd. Adam Bell, chairman of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, is shown presenting the certificate to Norman English, division manager. Board Commissioners E. V. Ablett and Chris W. Pritchard are shown at left and right. LOGGING ‘NO. 1 KILLER’ IN ULS. The U.S. lumber ifdustry has demonstrated once again that the industry is the most hazardous in the world. During the first three months. of this year, accident frequency rate in the logging section jumped from 77.9 to 87.8 per mil- lion man hours worked. This is made clear in a report by the U.S. Department of Labor in Washipgton, D.C. The logging industry showed an increase from 17.9 injuries per million man-hours in the. fourth quarter of 1949 to 87.8 in the first quarter of 1950; metal furniture, from 15.2 to 22:1, and fertilizers from 17.5 to 23.4, In contrast, the injury rate for pottery and’ related products dropped from 20.3.to 11.5; orna-|3 mental metal work, from 20.3 to 12.9; batteries, from 22.7 to 15.5; elevators, escalators, and convey- ors,.from 13.4 to 7.8 and leather tanning, from 18.1 to 12.9. Injury rates were highest in the lumbering group of in dustries; logging, with a rate of 87.8; sawmills, 63.7; integ- rated saw and planing mills, 40.5; plywood mills, 35.4; plan- ing mills operated separate from sawmills, 35.1. Outstandingly low rates were recorded for synthetic textile fibres — 1.6; synthetic rubber — 2.4; optical and ophthalmic goods .0; explosives—3.5; women’s and children’s clothing—3.6; electric lamps (bulbs) —3.8. A moderate upswing in injury rates from the lows recorded in the last quarter of the year to the first quarter of the following year is not unusual. BLS commented, since this has been noted in three of the six previous years for which comparable data are avail- able. First quarter 1950 rates were about 11 percent under those for the corresponding period of 1949, indicating a continuing fav- orable trend in safety work.