B.C. LUMBER WORKER ; 1

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housekeeping in an in-
duce the accident rate. Good
ly arrangement of equipment,
neatness, cleanliness and

” might also be applied to
Nothing can be more im-
sy, and for morale, than an
mal factors of each in-

elops good personal rela-
individual personal in-
ank outlook and a warmth of

f man at your job as you

“yourself as you are of the

ive jealousy to prejudice your
ow workers?

weaknesses’ and handicaps
t for his demonstrated know-

8 you are undermining the

Matter of a negotiated con-
Hat you are and how you act.
Us effect on the frequency and

sation Board

W. PRITCHARD, Commissioner
¥. ABLETT, Commissioner *

A SAFER 1952

Expanded Activity
Planned By Officers

Confidence that full-scale co-operation throughout the lumber
industry during the-present year would result in a further appre-
ciable reduction in the accident frequency rate was expressed in
the Officers’ Report placed before the IWA District Safety Con-

, work with |

ference, January 28.

The report stated in part:

The record of the past year has
not been too good—there have
been difficulties and disappoint-
ments along with some achieve-
ments. The reduction in Accident
frequency rates in many opera-
tions that are protected and ser-
viced by joint Safety Committees
prove the worthiness of this
method of control, and some of
them have reached the lowest
point in Accident frequency in
the history of the industry.

The amazing results that were
obtained through the combined
efforts of Union, Management,
and Government during Safety
Week of May 14-18 are worthy
of more than brief mention.

During this work week which
involved many thousands of
workers in 78 of our largest saw-
mills, only three. compensable ac-

cidents marred an otherwise per-
fect record. This proves to us
that accidents do not happen
when an organized and enthusi-
|astic effort is made to prevent
them. :

During the past year, the prob-
lemyof accident frequency and
number of fatal accidents in the
logging operations has been a
matter of grave concern, and
there are those among us who
would believe that our program
has failed, but such is not the
case, .

A vigorous and searching in-
vestigation into these accidents
and’ a rigid examination and
questioning of witnesses at Cor-
oner’s Inquests reveal that in
many cases, the victim himself,
was responsible for his own death
and that he had failed the pro-
gram.

Two Penalties in 195]

On two occasions in the past
year, violation of the Safety

|. Many of the fatals that occur
|in the woods are in the falling

regulations of the Workmen's!and bucking department of the
Compensation Board which re-| operations. The very nature of
sulted in the death of two of our | their work, the widespread use of

See Top Safety Men

“WELCOME TO B.C.” says John T. Atkinson, President, to Gordon
Johnson, Secretary, International Safety Council during District
Safety Conference.

“New Canadian:

members were penalized.

The first concerned a rigging
accident in which the rigging

slinger gave the signal to move |

the butt rigging before the two
chokermen were in the clear; one
of whom was killed. This was the
first time in the history of the
act, that the penalty clause has
been invoked. The rigging slinger
was summoned .into Police Court
in Powell River and fined for
negligence.

In the second case, the Super-
intendent of a large logging op-
eration pleaded guilty in Police
Court to a breach of Workmen’s
Compensation Board regulations
which contributed to the death of
a worker and he, too, was fined.

We accept these people as
and we believe
they have the right to work and
but the policy of placement
in hazardous oceupation is wrong
until they have been accustomed
to their environment and learned
to take care of themselves.
A most progressive step was
taken by our Union by the ap-
pointment of a full-time Safety
Director, a move that has no pre-
cedent in the history of the Trade

Union movement, and we believe |

no greater demonstration of sin-
and good faith could be
in the matter of accident
prevention in industr:

Expansion Due

The Safety program which we
have followed in the past three
years will be expanded. The in-
terest that has been created
among the workers and employ-

Jers alike can be developed into

|power saws, and the curse of
| contract rates, make this a prob-
jlem that must’be taken care of in
| our deliberations and we believe

| must be given special attention.

| Upon investigation of these
| falling and bucking accidents, we
| find the victims to be men of long
experience, intelligent and woods-
wise.

Much concern is being given to
| the policy of some logging camps
in employing large numbers of
immigrants, immediately on ar-
vival from Europe. Unable to
read, speak, or understand Eng-
lish ‘and without job instruction
or guidance, they constitute a
jhazard to others as well as to
i themselves.

Train Immigrants -

an attitude toward Safety that
| will protect and guard our mem-
bership at all times.

We have learned facts from
| our investigations and experience
jin our program in the past, that
|the work of accident prevention
| will never end—that new equip-
| ment, new methods, and new men
| bring new hazards that must be
| overcome—that sudden death and
jerippling injuries can occur on
lour highways and in our homes
—and that our program must be
extended to include protection off
their job, for we can never be
half-safe.

WEY! KEEP
IT CLEANS

The busy film executive asked
his secretary where his pencil
was, or

“It’s behind your ear,” she re-
plied.

“Come, come,” snapped the big
shot, “I’m a busy man. Which
ear?”

eee

“My fiance,” said the first ex-
tra, “is telling everybody he’s
going to marry the most beauti-
ful girl in the world.”

“What a shame!” exclaimed the
other, “After all the years you've
been going with him!”

s 4 8

They tell about the Boss who
got so mad he ate the union con-
tract but he still found it bind-
ing.

se 8

Only two classes of people fall

for flattery—men and women.

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BUTT OF 42! Log
TONGED IN BOOM
SLIPS OFF HEEL.

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DATE: AUGUST 15, 1951.

butt.

stopped.

He died later of injuries.

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Ps

th
al Z
ee a
>) DECEASED ADJUSTING
AIR LINES, STRUCK
AS, BY ropeun on oc |

AGE: 36.
OCCUPATION: TRUCK DRIVER.
EXPERIENC AT LEAST 10 YEARS.

A Heel boom was being used for loading. The trailer was un-
loaded from a truck and the truck trailer were coupled.

The driver started connecting his air lines, standing beside the
reach on the far side from the tree.

The second loader tonged a hemlock log 42 feet long and 10
inches diameter at the top. The tongs were hooked 96” from the

The boom swung about, about halfway to the truck and was ~

The butt of the log slid off the heel on the far side from the
truck and the top of the log swung crosswise oyer the front bunk
stake and across the reach striking the truck driver on the temple.

Death of a scaler, Bro. J. A.
Madden, Local 1-80, TWA, caus-
ed by a falling tree in the
Ladysmith operation of Comox
Logging and Railway Co. Ltd. ,
is under investigation by Local
Union officials and Safety Di-
rector John T. Atkinson.

Verdict of the coroner’s jury
at the inquest held in Ladysmith,
February 2, was accidental death,
without further comment. At a
subsequent safety mecting the
feeling was expressed that fur-
ther action should be taken to
clear up the exact causes of the
accident, to prevent any repeti-
tion.

The victim, who leaves a widow
and three children at Saltair,
died in hospital ten days after
the fatal accident.

He was found 120 feet from
the stump of the felled tree, and
four feet from the trunk. Evi-

dently he had crouched behind a

1-80 Probes Death

standing tree, when he realized
that the tree was coming down,
but was pinned by a nearby
leaner, which was struck by the
falling tree.

The head faller gave evidence
that he had thought the scaler to
be in the clear. Further study
will be given all the circum-
stances to determine whether the
procedure followed in such case
may be made safer.

STADNYK STARTS
AID CLASSES

Bro. Leo Stadnyk, Safety Dj.
rector of Local 1-357, has .been
appointed by the St. John’s Am-
bulance Brigade to instruct First
Aid to a class of volunteers fo,
Civil Defence in New Westmin.
ster at St, John’s Ambulance
Rooms, which. started Monday,
January 14, =