B.C. LUMBER WORKER . put not read. -but not applied. : wn—but not obeyed. ately violated. ced at, sneered at, and finally se s not accepted in a spirit of co- n and sportsmanship. 4 , when, after it has been found nt enough to be placed in the rule ot strictly enforced by those uld do so. isn printed in black, but just robability they were written first words, some unfortunate victim le'for us to profit by his tragic all) he has made'it easy for us to minutes? effort, the lesson which rly ay b lf cannot be transmitted. Only perience can be passed on. “Meritorious Safety Per- formance Certificate” was awarded recently to the Shaw- nigan Lake Logging Division of MacMillan-Bloedel Ltd. for one hundred and ninety-eight consecutive accident-free days in 1951. The WCB award was for the Class D operations (35 to 50 em- |ployees) in the B.C. Logging | Industry. The certificate was presented to the unit’s safety committee by Mr. Arthur Francis, chief inspec- tor of the Workmen's Compensa- tion Board. Accidents Down Shawnigan Lake’s accident rate last year was 49.13 as com- pared to its 1950 rate of 90.8. Throughout B.C. the rate of ac- [cident occurrence in the logging jindustry was 129 per million man-hours in 1951; In the saw- mill industry it was 58.11, a de- cline of 39.15 percent from 1950. The certificate was received by | Mr. Gerald Wellburn, Shawnigan Lake camp manager; Mr. Mal- colm Pickard, high rigger; and Mr. Charlie Plester, IWA shop steward. “State of Mind” In presenting the award, Mr. Francis said “Some of you might not have been here if it wasn’t for your safety record.” Safety precautions were “a state of mind” which was “contagious”. Every man in the creek, he said, "had a share in winning the award.” He urged the safety committee to “build up a spirit of self-preservation.” Mr. Wellburn said he had been trying to win the award for 30 lyears. “It’s quite a thing to get |this award.” He compared a camps’ safety record to a blank writing tablet. “We don’t make a safety record, somebody messes it up.” Mr. Wellburn paid tri- bute to the interest shown in safety work by Mr. Ken Mar- shall, camp superintendent. After visiting operations in Washington and Oregon, John T. Atkinson, District Safety Direc- tor, was able to report that pro- gress in safety measures down there was limited to about 10 percent of the industry while in |B.C. “it is over the entire in- | dustry”. He urged redoubled efforts, pointing out that “when a work: er hag lost his ability to work, he has lost everything, because he never had anything else.” | Maintaining a safety record, he added, was “sometimes disap- pointing.” He lauded the work of the men’ and the “sincerity of the management” in their acci- dent-prevention work. Accidents Not Inevitable In the early days in the lum- ber industry people “sort of ac- cepted the belief that there had ‘to be accidents,” recalled Jack Shawnigan Loggers Get Award SHAWNIGAN LAKE Logging Camp representatives, winners of the 1951 WCB “Meritorious Saf Class O Operations, receiving award from Arthur Franci: ‘ety Performance Certificate”, for eft to right) Gerald Wellburn, camp manager, Malcolm Pickard and Charlie Plester, members of the camp’s safety committee, and Arthur Francis, Chief Inspector for the WCB. Challenger, Nanaimo, logging manager for the eastern district of MacMillan & Bloedel. “It is quite obvious to me that the hawnigan division aren’t pre- pared to accept adverse condi- tions and not do something about them.” He urged continuation of co-operation between the men and management. Mr. Jack Phillips, secretary of the safety committee, proudly took custoly of the framed cer- tificate. Among those present were Messrs. Ernie Venus, Don Mc- Bean, Dave Melvor, Jack Mc- Kercher and Ed Linder, financial secretary of IWA, Local 1-80. | 2? VEAR LOGGING © COW/CHAN * SAWMI consecutive year by the C: Roy Lehman, WCB inspector. HEAD TABLE GUESTS at the dinner award for the third consecutive year by the Cowichan Sawmill Division BCF?, and for the second use and Nitinat Camps of the Cowichan’ Logging Division BCFP, were thur Francis, chief inspector, (left) John Harness, sawmill foremai han Mill; Roy E. Evans, BCFP; Charles Whisker; and IWA; Colin C. Campbell, manager, Cow receptii WCB; John T. Atkinson Caution! Fluorescent lights normally op- erate at cooler temperatures than do incandescent light delivering the same light output. Because of this, some people have come to the erroneous conclusion that it is safe to operate standard fluor- escent lamps in hazardous loca- tions, such as in paint booths. While the fluorescent tube re- mains comparatively cool, the ballast box may reach a’ very high temperature, which, under adverse conditions, could cause an explosion. The lamps must be’ handled with caution. They contain mer- |cury vapor which is poisonous. Some are lined with a phosphorus material containing berillium. If berillium gets into a cut or seratch it, may result in a serious wound. ,A _wouhd of this type should receive immediate medical attention. Six more fatal accidents in the month of September have been reported by the Work- men’s Compensation Board for the B.C. Lumber Indus- try. One fatality occurring in July and five occurring in Six More Deaths September. Time-loss accidents re- ported for the same period were 846. Total fatalities to the end of September are 57, with 6053 injuries. bosT: “TIP OF RIGHT Inpex FINGER, WEAR MACHINE wien FORMER One was OG Wee ce ee woce PERSE 0 RETURN Tar ‘TOTAL Annan tare [SUCKER MERE WntEHE TALLERS STARTE! (OW CEDAR eas cans 2 AGE: 45 OCCUPATION: BU! EXPERIENCE: SEVERAL YEARS DATE: MAY 2nd, 1952. i The fallers were working’ on ‘CKER a cedar tree 110 feet high, 48” diameter. The Bucker was seen at the gas cans well clear of the intended line of fall. The tree fell suddenly when there was still 9” of wood holding on one side and 19” or the other. ‘The tree fell at about 45° to the intended line of fall and opposite WTS A FOOLISH MAN WWO GETS THE WOTION, 70 Ol A MACHWE WWE (TS A MOTION) to the direction where 19” of wood was holding. The Bucker was struck and killed. The tree was faund to have a rotten centre.