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Safety Men On Tour é

“GOOD HOUSEKEEPING” found in the plant of Alaska Pine Ltd., New Westminster, is praised

by inspecting safety officials. (Left) Al Larkin,
tor, Alaska Pine, & Cellulose Co. Ltd.; John T.

Reeves, Company Personnel Manager.

Alaska Pine Safety Director; T. North, Safety Direc-
Atkinson, IWA District Safety Director; and T.

ATKINSON
INSPECTS
ALASKA PINE

John T. Atkinson, IWA District
Safety Director, was guest in-
spector recently at the Alaska
Pine Co, New Westminster,
through ‘an, invitation extended
by the Safety Committee.

Together with Francis Reef,
Plant Manager, T. North, Com-
“pany Safety Supervisor, and A.
Larkin, Company Safety Inspec-
tor, an interesting and compre-
hensive tour of the plant was
made, Each operation was gone
into thoroughly with questions
being asked by both inspectors
and men on the job.

Of particular interest was the
Safety Shoe Drive being put on
by the Plant Safety Committee.
This Committee had managed to
reduce the price of Safety Shoes
and Safety-toe Boom Boots to the
first 90 men buying them in the
month of February.

After several hours of inspect-
ing this plant, John T. compli-
mented everybody for a “job
well done”, with’ the wish that all
the industry was as safety con-
scious.

PROTECT MEN

lature. He expressed the opin:

WEY! KEEP
IT CLEANS

“So you and Charlie are mar-
ried, I thought all the time it was
going to be just a flirtation
affair.”

“So did Charlie!”

Did you hear about the frus-
trated guy who finally got rid of
B,O, and then found out people
didn’t like him anyway?

AGAINST

DISMISSAL SAYS REPORT

Proposal made by Commissidner Pritchard during the
enquiry’ into Workmen’s Compensation that union agree-
ments should. protect all workers against dismissal for
refusal to work under unsafe conditions was approved by
Chief Justice Sloan in his report, now before the Legis-

ion that this provision should

be given statutory recognition and be made mandatory.

The Commissioner reports:

“Mr. Pritchard, a member of
the Board with long experience
jin organized labor groups, has
fully appreciated this situation,
but his solution of it is to encour-
age unions to write into their
agreements a clause, which in ef-
fect states that a workman shall
not be guilty of a breach of the
| agreement if he refuses to work
|under: conditions which contra-
| vene the Board’s regulations, and
which, on the other hand, pro-
| tects an employer who discharges
|a workman for-failure to observe

these regulations by refusing him
the right to seek the aid of the
Grievance Committee.

“This is a meritorious sug-
gestion and the inclusion of
such a provision in Union
agreements would be of value
in strengthening both the
hands of management and la-
bor in the enforcement of safe-
ty regulations.

“During the hearings, I ex-
pressed the thought that this pro-
vision should be given statutory
recognition and made mandatory,
and after consideration I am still
of that view.”

THINK SAFE...
ACT SAFE...
BE SAFE

Board
Inspectors
‘Over-Worked’

Criticism levelled at the
Safety Department of the
Workmen’s Compensation
Board was not upheld by the
evidence, stated Chief Justice
Sloan in his report recently
tabled in the Legislature.

After an exhaustive review of
the work of the Department_and
the staff of inspectors, the Com-
missioner concludes:

“From the foregoing activities
in the field of education and
guidance in the development of a
safety consciousness in both man-
agement and labor, and from a
consideration of all the evidence
before me, including mandatory
formation of Joint Safety Com-
mittees and their functioning, the
awakening of Labor Unions to
their responsibilities, and many
other circumstances to numerous
to mention in detail, including,
for instance, certification of men
using blasting powder, I have
reached the conclusion that in the
phase of accident-prevention, the
Board, through its officials and
especially by reason of the long
continued efforts of Mr. Francis,

has demonstrated a praiseworthy,
conscientious, and intelligent de-
votion to its obligation.

“Tangible results are always
slow in following these endeav-
ors, The acceptance of the ne-
cessity for safety programs
of slow growth. The seed takes
years to come to fruition. From
about 1945 onward, results of
an awakened interest can. be
seen in the reduction of acci-
dent-frequency rates.”

Safety Inspectors

The Inspectors of the Board
were found by the Commissioner
to be sadly overworked, and un-
able to cover a vast territory with
desirable frequency.

The Commissioner in remarks
preliminary to his recommenda-
tion that the number be increased
said in part:

“It is abundantly clear, even
from the short excerpts I have
made, from the evidence of the
inspectors, that they are highly
qualified men with an excellent
record of performance.

Although I placed their duties
arbitrarily in the “material” di-
vision of the Board’s efforts to-
ward - accident - prevention there
can be no doubt that they have
all contributed widely and wisely
to the development of the safety
idea both in management and
labor.

The quoted evidence is by no
means an exhaustive description
of their multitudinous duties and
their performance thereof. View-
ing the evidence as a whole, this
branch of the Board is a credit
to it”

That legal provision he
agreements providing that a
of the agreement if he refuses
the accident prevention re; c
for breach of the regulations

ance’ procedure.
\

That more safety inspe
quency of inspections.

That the Act be amended to
violation of the regulations tp a
$500.

That safety inspectors be giv
periods not exceeding five days,

That all employers be required |
the man-hours of exposure to impr

That Safety Inspectors be acer
ever possible by a nominated Jal
committee. 3

That closer co-ordination hety
inspection agencies be author’ d

That encouragement and
improve their status, and that
administer plasma, oxygen, and

That the employment of F
be made mandatory in operati
miles from the nearest hospital

That more funds be made avai
Hygiene for preventive work in

That plans be approved for the
Centre. /
*
That the Board be authorized tc
Rehabilitation without the pr i

That further Counsellors be &
in various parts of the province ir

That an amputation counsellor

cases. :

That the services of the Counséll
and children, dependents of men Kill

That the Act be amended to 2
Advocate in Vancouver and a De
claimants before the Board. a

HOW 70 66 AW EASY MAKE
FOR AW ACCHOEWT.....

Dead...

AGE: 40 YEARS
OCCUPATION: HANDYMAN
EXPERIENCE: 20 YEARS
DATE: AUGUST 29, 1951.

The handyman had been instructed to paint the window frames
of a new floating bunkhouse.

The accident was not seen but it is thought that he was walking
across the logs, to a plank he had placed in position when he slipped
or tripped and struck his head.

“He apparently fell unconscious with his head in the water and
took water into his lungs, He died of drowning.