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Three Fruitful Years
Of Working Together

FOR approximately three years, the IWA B.C. Dis-
trict Council and the District Safety Council have
steadfastly adhered to a policy of cooperation with the
representatives of management in the lumber industry
in the promotion of an accident prevention program.

During this period, there has been a growing reali-
zation that needless accidents can be prevented, if
labor, management, and government combine their
efforts to achieve a proper distribution of responsibility
for safe working procedures. As both employees and
employers gain inestimable benefits by the elimination
of accident hazards, there are sound and unassailable
reasons for cooperation toward this common aim. -

The Editorial Board of the B. C. LUMBER WORK-
ER has endeavored to express this policy through the
medium of these pages. The Board gratefully acknowl-
edges the support of the Workmen’s Compensation
Board and the employers as represented by Forest
Industrial Relations Ltd. in this safety educational
work. With continued cooperation the Board will en-
deavor to improve safety educational techniques.

In an effort to appraise the value of this work, the
Beard approached prominent representatives of man-
agement, known for their great interest in accident
prevention, for frank statements regarding the pro-
gress made.

It is with great pleasure that their statements are
presented in these columns, together with graphs sup-
plied by them indicating thé striking progress made.

1950 Coast lo

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Age:24.

Occupation: Scaler.
Experience: One month.
Date: May 1, 1951.

The scaler missed the crummy and hitchhiked a ride on a 5-
ton truck carrying a trailer. He put his scale rule on the back of
the truck with the hook over one of the bunks.

Just before the truck reached the loading works, at a,point
where it was going up a 12% grade at about 3 miles per hour, the
scaler opened the door and jumped out.

The driver looked back a moment later and saw the scale rule
wedged between the frame and a wheel where further movement
would break it. ;

He stopped the truck end called to the scaler to get his rule.
Getting no response and not wishing to trust the emergency brake
on the grade the driver called assistance from a jeep driver a short

distance away.
‘On investigation, it was found that the scaler was lying about

three feet behind the truck, one wheel having passed over him.
He died shortly after, without regaining consciousness. The
road was moist and rutted. It is thought that the scaler slipped
in a rut in reaching for the rule and fell beneath the wheels.
Regulation 116A was broken in that the scaler got off the
truck.while it was moving.

It has been a terrible season
for the local baseball team, and
a friend was trying to cheer up
the manager. “At least you’ve
taught the boys fine sportsman-
ship,” he comforted. “They’ re
certainly good losers.” “Good!
growled the manager. “Why,
they’re perfect!”

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Husband to wife: “I’ll say one

thing for your relatives—I like

_-your mother-in-law better than
~oniitie,

“Look at that youngster, the
one with the short hair, wearing
brown trousers, and smoking a

cigarette. What a sight! Is it a|

boy or a girl?”

“Sir, VM have you know it’s a
girl—my daughter.”

“Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t know
you were her father.”

“T’m not. I’m her mother.”

eonate

When you feel dog-tired at
night, it may be because you
growled all day.

ye. LUMBER WORKER (4° “

o-operation Of Lab

The IWA

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J. STEWART ALSBURY

On behalf of the B.C. Dis-
trict Council, IWA, I desire to
express deep and sincere grati-
fication that cooperation be-
tween labor, management and
government has succeeded in
reducing the accident rate, in
those operations where safety
principles have been. accepted
by all concerned.

For the workers in the lum-
ber industry, this means pro-
tection against the untold mis-
ery and pain, which follows in
the wake of accidents. For
many, it has meant life, instead
of death, and has thereby spar-
ed their dependents from tra-
gedy.

We are pleased whenever
employers recognize these hu-
manitarian considerations. Our
Union will continue to promote
the acceptance of safe working
habits and procedures, in the
confident belief that the safety
code, is a good code for both
employer and employee.

MICHAEL A. SKUZANSKI

Those of us who may claim
the honor of being charter
members of the first Safety
Councils in the IWA feel rich-
ly rewarded when we learn that
the creed of cooperation for
safety is finding general accep-
tance in the lumber industry,
because the concrete results
achieved have demonstrated its. |
value.

As District Safety Director, I
wish to join with the District
President in expressing appre-
ciation for the cooperation ex-
tended to the IWA in our ef-
forts to promote a safety pro-
gram. I feel that our Union has “|
kept faith with both the work-
ers and management in this
endeavor.

_ No worker who participates
in the-safety program loses
any degree of genuine freedom.

Actually, by cooperation with

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I feel certain that every
worker in the lumber industry
will rejoice over the evidence
that, in some degree at least,
the accident prevention pro-
gram is gaining ground against
a dreadful casualty list in
deaths and disabling accidents.

Immediately, I must say that
this is no time for complacency.
Whatever satisfaction we may
take in past achievements, we
know that much remains to be
done.

The whole point to consider
is how our safety work may be
completed, till every needless
hazard has been eliminated,
and every operation is made as
safe as it ought to be.

ries a

JOHN T. ATKINSON

The key to success lies in
cooperation — cooperation on
the job. Management must take
safety seriously. Foremen must.
act to make safety a reality.
Every worker must likewise ac-
cept the program, and share in
its constant application.

In the course of my duties as
a Safety Director I have visit-
ed many operations, both log-
ging camps and sawmills.
Wherever the workers and
management have joined hands
to work sincerely for safety
objectives, wonders have been
performed. I mean wonders, for
to me human life and happiness
is a sacred and wonderful
thing.

We know of no more wonder-
ful achievement than to save
human life and happiness.

The IWA will find no more
worthwhile objective than to
cooperate with all like-minded *
executives in the lumber indus-
try. to make logging camps and
sawmills safe places in which
to work.

John T, Atkinson,
Chairman,

IWA International
Safety Council.

the job safety committee he
fains a greater opportunity to
assert his right to safe work-
ing conditions.

No representative of man-
agement loses in prestige or
production results by taking a
genuine interest in promoting
safety. Workers invariably re-
spond to any sincere interest
in their safety, and the safer
the operation the greater its
efficiency in production.

_ The District Safety Council
is working to organize active,
alert, and well-informed safety
committees in every operation.
It is in this organization on the
job, that effective cooperation
must find its true basis.

Michael A. Skuzanski,
Director,

IWA District Safety
Council.

Je the government organization responsi
‘Compensation Board as a body, and the
a whole-hearted conviction that accidents ¢:
individual organizations owe it to th ‘
country to take their full share of the bi

They believe that it is the responsibili
such a manner as to give the workman an op
free from the threat of accidents.

They beliéve that the workman must cor
sarily expose himself or fellow-worker to inju

They believe that organized labor ean, sh
prevention program to instruct its members):
to discipline its members who jeopardize }
place accident-prevention above any mi

The prevention of accidents is far i
sation after an accident has occurred,

Accident Treh
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