B.C. LUMBER WORKER :

Union Demands.
Better Ist Aid

Condition of the First Aid Room at the MacMillan & Bloedel,
Menzies Bay operation, has prompted a strongly-worded protest
- from the Local 1-363, IWA, Safety Council, demanding that obvious
neglect of sanitary conditions and first aid requirements be rectified
immediately, in keeping with other of the Company's First Aid

Rooms.
As shown by the above illus-
tration, the Menzies Bay First
Aid Room lacks water, lights, cot
‘or equipment for treating injured
workmen. The interior, it is al-
leged by Safety Officials dirty
and violates all recognized First
Aid Standards.
In comparison, they diveet at-
tention to the clean, bright, hos-
pital-like appearance of the mod-
ern First Aid Room also illus-
trated here. Every facility used
in First Aid treatment is at hand.
Local 1-3! Safety Officials
state that there is no excuse for
Millan & Bloedel as they can

CONDEMNED

Method
For Hot
Compress

Hundreds of Industrial First
Aid Attendants on duty in mines,
camps, and construction jobs are
thoroughly familiar with the
preparation and use of a stand-
ard hot compress wrung out of
boiling water.

However, if the call is for the
application of a hot compress
hour after hour every 15 or 20
minutes then here is an easier
way to handle the task.

The Method

1—Place ‘on suitable continuous
heat, a large pan about 14
inches in diameter, using
about an inch or so of water.
2—Invert in the pan of water a
shallow pan or strainer with
plenty of holes in bottom so
the steam can rise through it.
3—Lay suitable woollen compress
material on the holes in the
pan so that steam has a

‘|< utes or so,

well afford the best First Aid
Rooms and equipment obtainable
for their employees.

“When did you first see the |
light of day?” |
“Well, I was born in Pitts-
burgh, but it was three years
luter that I first saw the light of

day when I moved to Philadel- |

pba Fe te

The real test of any labor-
management set-up is ability to
function well when. times get

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tough,

chance to heat up the com-
| press, making it damp but not
| soggy. It is quite hot but
| “Tequires no wringing out.
4—Keep the big pan covered to
hold the steam at a very low
| continuous simmer on the next
compress so the next com-
press will be ready in 15 min-
{5—On the sore or boil lay some
steril gauze, then two or three
layers of wax paper or the
equivalent as a base for the
hot compress. Watch to avoid
scalding. Enclose compress in
flannel. Wrap the whole in a
suitable sheet of oil silk or

plastie and bind with a large
dry towel and safety pins.

Congratulations

Honors accorded The B.C.
Lumber Worker by the Na-
tional Safety Council’s Public
Interest Award have. attracted
widespread attention, with a
resulting deluge of congratula-
One such letter was re-
from Commissioner
is” Pritchard, of the Work-
Compensation Board as

follow:
Dear Mr. Mitchell:

I have read with a great deal of
interest, in your B.C. Lumber
Worker of May 21; thut your or-
ganization hus won the "National
Safety Council's Public Interest
Award for 1952".

I shoutd just like to take this
opportunity to offer my sincere
congratulations to yourself and
officers and members of your or-
ganization for the recognition
accorded you and also the splen-
did job which is being done ‘in the
interests of safety.

Your efforts ure having a far-
reaching effect on the whole |
safely movement in this Province.
Keep up the good work.

Traffic authorities stat
mitted daily by many moto
majority of traffic fatalities,

1. Driving at excessive
2. Passing on hills or cys
3. Following other ¢a|

4, Making turns frip

5. Driving undenfy

6. Ignoring orjp;

1, Weaving

» 8 Failure

Workmen in industry
But they, too, find simple m
much by deliberate violation
ence, but by being tricked
inability to forsee effects of
familiarity into a false sens
imprudent by reason of the
mands and pressures of life, }

A review of the fatal acqi
shows the following instance
conditions which are not uni

A Pulp mill worker at

A Logging employee
wharf and is dragged q

A Clean-up man in asy
of a slow moving squa’

Logs of a cold-deck pill

The side-hinged tail gal
strikes a sawmill worl

A Faller is struck by
A Bucker is crushed by
A Cat Operator pulls a

A Sawmill Manager is
sawyer’s lever is unint

Your Safety must be your fijs
Keep all your atten

Workmen's Com

ADAM BELL, Chai
F. P. ARCHIBAL
CHRIS W. PRIT
E. V. ABLETT, C

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