16, 1950 B.C. LUMBER WORKER Page Seven under which the victim’s crushed q Inder Pile leceased man was removed after pile : fittings shown here were placed Accident happened when he IWA WILL QUESTION . OPERATORS AT ENQUIRY Sittings of the Commission apopinted to enquire into the administration of the Workmen’s Compensation Act will resume in Vancouver, November 21, it is announced. It is anticipated that the Commissioner, Chief Justice Sloan, will hear briefs from employing interests and that representa- tives of the IWA District Safety Council will be permitted to cross-examine them on methods of accident prevention. TEN RULES FOR SAFETY In recognition of the fact that safety habits spring from a round-the-clock mental atti- tude, and are as important off the job as on the job, the Van- couver Plywood Division, H. R. | MacMillan Export Co, has in- | stituted a “reminder” campaign. | The ten basic rules for safety stressed are: Do not take unnecessary chances. Be sure you know how. No horseplay — no tricks. without authorization. by direct mail methods. - 7 i ae 2 Handle material safely. About every three weeks em- ployees receive a letter with| Get first aid. photo-seripts, of which the fol-/ Use safe equipment and lowing is typical: | use it safely. aCe uinloseest | Wear safe clothing. The success this company has | experienced in Safety and Acci-| Keep a clean work place. dent Prevention is to a large ex- | tent due to the employees. All | too often, however, we still have | the person who’ neglects to | observe one or other of the prin- | ciples of safety. | That person can be very lucky and continue to ignore rules of caution and safety for a long time and, by a miracle, escape bodily injury, but eventually his | luck will end and the result is | an injury causing pain, loss of | pay and possible disfigurement— all of which are obviously un- one: ously UN- | of bodily injury, and as you turn ecessary, and can s0 very easily | ich nage, you Will geo the Tule e See {noted at the top and pictorially The enclosed photo-script en-jdescribed below in a manner titled “Learn Safety” contains | which will ring a bell of fami- ten basic rules for the prevention |liarity to many of us. INSPECTION CHECK LIST The following list is furnished to remind you of the more im- portant things to look for if you are called upon to make a fire prevention inspection. Unless some other more specific list is fur- nished, carry it with you and consult it frequently as you go along. 1. Electrical a. Switches equipment b. Insulation c. Fuses d, Grounding 2, Matches or a. Confined to places permitted smoking b. Safety matches, only, used 3. Heat hazards a, No combustible material in contact with steam pipes, furnaces, flues, etc. b. Ashes in metal containers. 4, Flammable a, Stored in approved places liquids b. Safety cans used ¢. Tanks, drums and cans in good order. d. No leaks 5. Oils and a. Stored in approved place paints b. No leaks c. Drippings properly disposed of 6. Combustible a. Stored in approved bins or containers materials 7. Oily rags and All in approved metal receptacles waste Disposed of regularly 8. Gas No leaks Turned off when not in use 9. Refuse In approved containers Disposed of daily 10. Lockers and Kept neat : closets No accumulation of rubbish ll. Fire fighting In place equipment Easily accessible a. b. a. b. a. b. a, b. a, be ¢. In working order d. Sprinkler valves open e. Sprinkler heads unobstracted f. Alarms in working order. - e Never use equipment | Follow safety regulations. . for years. ;, wooden shelters or NORTH-WEST BAY INVENTORS Designers of new Safety Sock at North-West Bay, (left), Frank Cianflone, Joe Frater, Bruno Baldessi. NEW SAFETY “SOCK” To keep blankets, stretchers and other emergency First Aid supplies safe and dry in the woods has been a problem that has bothered the minds of loggers It has been found that even metal containers of many types that have been tried haye proved in- adequate in protecting the sup- plies from the elements. In a previous issue it was re- ported from Local 1-80 that one Company, Comox Logging and Railway Company have been using for some considerable time ja Safety Sock made from an old inner tube vulcanized at both ends and inflated. This has proved very success- ful, and how another operation in the same Local, namely, the Mac- Millan Export Operation at North-West Bay, just south of Parksville, has reported that they have for a considerable time been using a Safety Sock of a some- what similar design. New Design In the fall of 1947, Ken Mar- shall, 2 road foreman, while look- g at a discarded truck tire inner be had an idea. He called in tire men Bruno Beldessi and Frank Cianflone and First Aid man Joe Frater. He explained his idea to the three of them, and after much discussion they took the old tube and between them devised and built a rubber sock. They vulcanized one end to seal it and form the toe of the sock. They put in a sample lot of blankets, a stretcher and splints and the open end was then sealed tight with a clamp that was con- trived by Cianfione. The First Aid sock was then inflated and placed in the woods, before the first snows of winter had fallen. Early in the spring of 1948 after months of exposure and being buried in, the snow, the sock was dug out and opened. The con- tents were found to be as dry and as clean as when they were first stored in the sock in the previous fall. Send Ideas Ideas of this kind are bene- ficial to all workers. If, in the operation, in which any of our readers are working, there are ideas of a similar nature that GTVORWOWEETTER ... NEVER WEAR LOOSE, FLOPPY CLOTHE AROUND LIVE ROLLERS could be used in other operations’ please forward them to the Editor of our Safety Page, be- cause in the implementation of our Safety Program ideas can save liyes. But they can only full this function if those ideas are made available to all of our fellow workers, HE LIVED “Tm ‘Sawn In Half” “Don’t touch me, ’m sawn in half” was the plaintive re- mark of Harvey Miller, Nanaimo, after one of the most incredible escapes on record. He passed between the spin- ning saws of a head rig and is alive to tell the tale. Miller, a carrier and mainten- ance man at Standard Logging Co., Brechin Point, was greasing the main saw after the mill shut down when a fellow, worker started the saw without knowing that Harvey was beneath the blades. Aparently Miller was caught by his large woollen sweater and drawn into the blades when the saw started up unexpectedly. One of the circular blades is 52 inches in diameter, and the other is 42 inches. He owes his survival to the fact, it is stated, that he passed through the saw in the reverse direction from which the teeth were travelling. Art MacLachlan, mill foreman, who witnessed the accident, said that Miller's body apparently bent the blades sideways to allow shim to pass through unscathed. No one was more surprised than Miller to find himself alive after the ordeal. He was treated in hospital for shock and bruises. Members of the’ crew have taken a vow to observe in future the standard safety rule, to lock out the switch until maintenance men are clear of machinery and to sound a warning when the mill is started.