B.C. LUMBER WORKER

® day of 1953 will be to

-neen and women who

fe industries of British

1Won that tremendous

cin curtailing the tragic

dustrial accidents.

fevery means that is
to show the steps

tidental occurrences.

edence that a small mi-
ee: made challenging
d¥ equalled or improved

o Spire action, stimulate
|4vision and stir moral
ef that there will be uni-
ifmeth anything less than

eferformance.

pensation Board

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Ai Gecretary
RD, Commissioner

rial

the training for Indu:
] treed by Industrial Fi

as inseparable in an effective

Announcement was made on!
i behalf of ‘the Workmen's: Com- |
| pensation Board that the use of
| oxygen therapy by First Aid At-

;tendants would now be intro-
duced. A demonstration of the
| use of o: made at the
convention.

| Opening address of the con-
| vention was delivered by Chai
| man Adam Bell, of the Work-
men’s Compensation Board, who
stressed the value of the first aid
| program as developed in B.C.
Representative Panel
Participating in a panel dis-
cussion were John T.. Atkinson,

IWA Safety Directo WwW. M.
“Scotty” Allison, B.C, Lumber
Manufacturers’ Association; J.

Roughton, B,C, Loggers’ Asso-
ciation; and W. M. Thompson,
First Aid Supervisor, WCB.
Improving standards of first
aid work and training occupied |
the attention of the panel mem- }
bers, All agreed that the status |
of Fivst Aid Attendants should!
he improved. The inclusion of |
accident prevention training |
part of first aid training likewise

First Aid certificates was

t Aid Attendants as one of their
major recommendations proposed during the two-day con-
vention session in the Hotel Georgia, December 26-27. In:
the opinion of the delegates, both acti
safety program.

les were regarded

found favor.

H. E. Winch, M.L.A.

Mr. Harold E. Winch, M.L.A.,
was guest speaker at the Con-
vention Banquet. In his remarks
he gave support to the proposal
that the status of First Aid At-
tendants should be raised, to en-
sure the highest possible grade
of attention at the time of injury.

The speaker advocated steps to
enable the First Aid Attendants
to promote more general training
among crew members in first aid
principles. He cited a number of
incidents where knowledge of
first aid on the part of crew
members had saved lives.

He deplored the practice on
the part of a few companies to
tamper with their accident rec-
ords in order to reduce the re-
ported accident frequency rates.
He urged prompt attention to
the compensation forms that no
injured workman might be preju-
diced in respect of any conse-
quences of ‘an accident, which

|might appear at some time sub-

sequent to the injury.

57,441 Casualties :

The Canadians fighting with
the United Nations forces in
Korea had a casualty list dead,
wounded and prisoners of war,
of 600, for the year 1951, yet
here in Canada, during the same
period the number of people who

Traffic Losses
Equal War's

Casualties from 2utomobile accidents during 1951 amounted
to more than 95 times the number of casualties sustained by the
Canadian force fighting in Korea.

to light with the recent publication, by the Dominion Bureau of
Statistics, of vehicle accident details for 1951.

This amazing fact has come

figure for Saskatchewan stood at
only 4.32 and the province of
Quebec, at the other end of the
scale, registered 16.34 deaths for
every 10,000 vehicles.

Sask. Praised
Road safety officials are alarm-
ed at the upward trend of acci-

died or were injured due to auto! dents, many of them avoidable,
accidents totalled 57,441.

i
regist

true that motor vehicle| campaign carried on by the Sas-
tion in 1951 hit an all- | katchewan Government Insurance

time high, with more than two! Office seems to be reaping its re-
and three-quarter million regis-

trations recorded, but the figures
show

ward. The Dominion Bureau of
Statistics, which recently issued
that one vehicle out of | details of motor vehicle accidents,
50 registered caused death cites the “commendable work in
jury to a fellow Canadian. | the field of traffic and safety and
With the exceptions of Sas-| education” carried on in Saskat-
Kkatchewan and Manitoba, the|chewan for the low accident re-
number of fatal and injury acci-| cord in that province.
dents in 1951 had increased from] Saskatchewan enacted its com-
the previous year. While the, pulsory automobile insurance
national average for deaths per scheme in 1948 and very shortly

10,000 vehicles stood at 9.36, the ! See Next Column

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CONVENTION URGES
HIGHER STATUS .

raining in aecident prevention methods as part of}

|but the vigorous traffic safety |}

| Mr. Winch declared, as he urged |
| more generous recognition of the |

jtry, and the workers in industry.

First Aid Attendants had good
reason to be proud of the tradi-
tions maintained by them in the!
service rendered B.C. industry,

worth of their service to indus-

A good Example is the Best
Safety Sermon. Y

Continued from Previous
Column

after this the All-Canada Insur-
ance Federation published an
analysis of various types of auto
insurance. The federation stated:
“Compulsory insurance is defi-
nitely not a safety measure and
does not in any way tend to elimi- |
nate or even réduce the number |
of motor vehicle accidents. In
the State of Massachusetts, in
which compulsory laws are in
effect, the ratio of accidents to!
total motor vehicle registration
has considerably increased under
compulsory insurance.”

Compulsion Needed

Mr. Beland Honderich, Finan-
cial Editor of The Toronto Daily
Star, commenting on the federa-
tion’s statement, wrote recently:
“While this may have been the
case in Massachusetts, it has not
been so in Saskatchewan .. . If
as the federation claims, there is
a relationship between automobile
insurance and highway accidents,
then these figures (Saskatchewan
4.32 deaths against national fi-
gure of 9.86 per 10,000 vehicles),
could be cited as a strong argu-
ment for compulsory insurance.
This, and the fact that Saskat-
chewan insurance is much the
cheapest in the nation, would|
seem to make compulsory insur- |
ance, much more desirable.” |

Compulsory insurance is al-
ready in effect in many countries
of the world and if it would, as

19

Mr. Honderich suggests it might,
help reduce the terrible rate of
motor vehicle accidents in Can-
ada—two every five minutes dur-
ing 1951—the introduction of a
compulsory national scheme may
not be in the too far distant
future. Ze

Bobby was sobbing loudly over

| the death of his collie. His friend,

Don, tried to console him, saying:
“Shucks, my grandmother’s been
dead a week, and you don’t catch
me crying.”

Bobby gave his eyes and nose
a swipe with his hand and look-
ing up at Dou sobbed:

“Yes, but you didn’t raise your
grandmother from a pup.”
F soe ®

“I don’t think you knew who
I was when you met me on the
street yesterday, did you?”

“No—who were you?”

aia ae

“If you don’t marry me, I'll get
a rope and hang myself right in
front of your door.”

“Oh, don’t do it, Edwin. You
know father doesn’t like you
hanging around here.”

Dead...

OCCUPATION
EXPERIENC!
AGE; 30 AND 51

OGGER, TRUCK DRIVER
EVERAL YEARS

DATE: SEPTEMBER 3, 1952.

A gin pole for loading logs was being raised on a power line
right of way. Three feet were cut from the pole because it was

close to the power line.

A cat was used to sway the pole into position. One guy line was
secured and two men took on slack in a second while the cat hela

the pole in position.

The line from the tractor led through a block at the top of the

pole and 3sas secured to the butt.
The block and lines contacted

the power line carrying 23,000

volts. Current passed down the slack guy line and kilied the twa

men who were hauling on it.

Current also went to ground through the tractor cable.

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