‘ion Board whole heartedly
accidents are preventable ;
f every individual to safe-
very employer has the duty
“d to use safe work proce-
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sie principles of accident-
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The responsibility of labor and government in acci-
dent prevention was the theme of major addresses at the
recent First Annual Accident Prevention Conference of
the Ontario Federation of Labor, held in Toronto. The
two-day meeting was attended by 160 delegates.

The Workmen’s Compensation
Board in Ontario has neglected
to carry out a program of acci-
dent prevention, one of the two-
main functions of the Act which

it administers, charged C. H.'

Millard, Canadian director of the
United Steelworkers in his ad-
dress to the conference.

With accident prevention left
to employers’ associations, the
Board merely acts as a collection
agency for funds for various in-
dustrial associations which set
up their own accident prevention
committees, he stated.

Prevention Neglected

Eight employers’ accident pre-
yention associations spend over-
$450,000 a year turned over to
them by the Board, yet accord-
ing to Justice Roach who re-
ported on the Act in 1950, sev-
eral of them employed no inspec-
tors, Millard recalled. “The
present provisions of the Act
dealing with accident prevention
ave not adequate and need revi-
sion,” the Roach report said.

The costs of such prevention
programs are charged to labor
and the consumer, said the Steel-
workers’ director, “but labor is
denied the opportunity of reduc-
ing those costs. We should de-
mand that the Board act to re-
duce accidents and that a work-
ing safety committee function in
every industrial undertaking,” he
stated.

Silicosis in Plants

“1 used to think that silicosis
was a disease confined to the
mines,” Fred Dowling, Canadian
director of the Packinghouse
Woikers told the delegates. “But
this year we ran across silicosis
as a disease in the packinghouse
y — in the cleanser and
ex’ divisions.” The result
of this finding is that the Ontario
Workmen’s Compensation Board
is now giving free X-ray service
to packinghouse workers,

Labor’s Part

“Accident prevention ‘is a new
development in industrial unions,”
the UPWA director said. “If we
had an efficient’ set-up, we could
cut down accidents and sickness
by 50 percent to 60 percent.
“Accident prevention should not
be handed over completely to the
employer, who should keep a
close check on the program.

Dowling said that two things
must be insisted upon by the
labor movement: unions must
have committees inside the plant,

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and, they must have some kind
of control over inspection.

OFL Asks Action

The Ontario Federation of La-
jbor will take steps to see that
the Ontario Workmen’s Compen-
sation Board accepts its rightful
responsibilities toward accident
prevention in Ontario industry,
stated Max Dodds, OFL director
of Welfare and Conference Chair-
man.

Pointing out that the Board
has avoided its duty for 38 years
since the Act was drafted in 1915,
Dodds said that prevention is just
as important as compensation,
and organized labor has every
right to insist that the letter and
intent of the Act be carried out.

In a 14-point memorandum to |
the conference, the OFL Welfare
Director summarized what unions
|themselves could do in accident
prevention, starting with a joint
union-management committee in
each plant.

The conference endorsed by
resolution the stand taken by the
Federation.

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accessible to all sections of the
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obtainable for their employees.

PILE SHIFTS:

OCCUPATION: Chokerman
EXPERIENCE: 2% years

AGE: 21
DATE:

May 7th, 1953.

One turn had been brought in to the cold deck. On the second
turn the rigging slinger and two chokermen had just gone in to get

the chokers when the pile shifted.
i The crew dived for cover and

One chokerman was hit and
found to be unhurt.

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