jaca B. c. LUMBER WORKER 2nd Issue, January : ~ RESCUED? BOOM-MEN employed by the’ Alaska Pine Co. Ltd. are seen here taking advantage of the new swimming classes recently instituted by the Company, under supervision of a Y.M.C.A. Instructor. (Left to right, front) Dave Johnson, Lorne Corsie, Wally Douglas. ard, Bill Mundell, Y.M.C.A. Instructor. Eureka Scores 370 Days Safety performance achieved by the crew of Eureka Saw- mills Ltd., Nanaimo, recently reported in the B.C. Lumber Worker has been extended to 370 accident-free days as on January 11. The program developed by the job safety committee is said to be the main factor in the reversal of former trends in this respect. Parks Sawmills Ltd. has also established a record of 247 ac- cident-free days as upon the day of report. Near accidents are WARN- INGS—heed them. Bete Ae ae oe Day must break and night must fall But accidents need not hap- pen at all. . (Back) Herb Woods, Ray Rich- RULES FOR ACCIDENTS Word-Picture of An Operation With Everything Set Tn a recent broadcast over Station CKNW, Local 1-857 IWA presented the following satirical view of a safety program in industry, evidently for the benefit of those who do not believe in doing anything to prevent accidents. - Putting everything in reverse, here is how it came out on the air: “Anybody can have an accident. It takes no skill, no talent, no imagination. Even if a, man decided to stand still in one spot the rest of his life, chances are an accident would eventually seek him out, come to him, and happen to hini right there on the spot. LOOKING FOR ACCIDENTS i "The world is full of impatient people, however, and this seems f especially true of the industrial world. Too restless to wait for an accident fo happen to them, they appear to go out looking for one J that is about to occur and then to assume the proper Position to have it occur to them. ‘ Consider the man who applies an airhose to a fellow-worker, the one who gives a hot-fot near moving machinery, the girl whose vanity drives her to wear high heels in the mill, or the employer who waits for the accident reports to point out where safety devices are needed, ACCIDENTALS ANONYMOUS REPORT According to Accidentals Anoymous, a voluntary group of re- formed risk-takers, the first sign a young man shows of his poten- tiality as a confirmed Accidental is when he touches his finger to wet paint to see if it’s really wet. ‘The man who gives in to this impulse, they say, will soon find himself sticking his finger into fans to see if the blades are really flexible, or into buzz saws to see if it can duck between the teeth, ‘This is a task about as exacting as keeping dry by running between the raindrops in a storm. + From here on, the patterns of the path to the accident ward or morgue are varied, but they are usually short. BEST WAY TO ACCIDENTS Since having accidents come so naturally to so many people, and the field is so full of talented amateurs, it may seem a waste of time to draw up a list of the best ways to have an accident, or to see that others have them. FIRST, it may be argued that no one really wants to have accidents. Maybe so, but if, like the National Safety Council Staff, you read the daily,—and incredible—reports of what accidents people have, and how they have them, you begin to wonder if any- thing but a desire to be hurt, or to hurt, could motivate them. Some people violate the law of averages as if it were a prohibition ent, SECOND, in any profession, of talented amateurs makes it all to do an outstanding job. PLANT RULES FOR ACCIDENTS _,_ How do you rate the plant where you work? Are there any abnormal number of accidents? If there are, pass this set of rules on to your boss. It will either wake him up, or if he follows them, he can do a good job of making his plant the most hazardous in your community. Never encourage men to wear safety equipment; just fire them ‘if they don’t: This policy will not only increase the probability of c -aecidents; it will also build up trouble for the labor relations direc- SS olen. tad should the safety director be the only one to have a bad If you do lay down strict safety rules, see that executives arid never obey them when they visit the shop: Men in the shop mn this way that the rules are just to impress the insurance but aren’t intended seriously because the boss himself elieve them. SUCCESSFUL DON’TS Don’t keep records of frequency of severity of accidents, or the either: Somebody might discover how serious the safety prob- ‘ your plant, how much it’s costing in men, man-hours, and demand that something be done about it. the existence of a large number the harder for the professional For The Worst . Put the safety program under direction of an overburdened time clerk, a superannuated janitor; or your wife’s nephew: Assures that the plan will be ineffective, promises no interference with acci- dents, and at the same time takes care of a pensioner or, what amounts to the same thing, a relative. JUST A NOBLE IDEAL Be sure supervisors understand safety is a noble ideal, but production is what counts in getting ahead: Leaves no false notions as to the relative importance of accident prevention. If circumstances compel inauguration of a safety program, see that the principles are pounded into foremen and workers the way a top sergeant teaches the manual of arms in a boot camp: Main- tains the conviction you’re a tough cookie, know what’s best for everybody, and haven’t any time to waste on suggestions from the men whose limbs and lives you are presumably trying to save. Shows the personnei department what you think of their employee participation ideas. 0 GET A LAWYER When you write up safety provisions, have a lawyer do it for you: No use making things too easy to understand. Somebody might read, digest, and apply the rules if they aren’t in gobbledy- gook. , Don’t let staff men inveigle 'you into a lot of ‘preventive main- tenance’: It’s all very well to point out that properly-working machines cause fewer accidents, but if you keep them from wearing out, how are the machine and truck manufacturers going to sell you new ones? They have got to live, too, have they not? Mark plant aisles with trails of oil and grease drippings down the middle, instead of yellow bands at the sides: Lets people stack things out in the aisles if they’re short of storage space, and it’s as funny as a crutch when somebody slips on the oil—that’s a bonus. WARN FOREMEN ‘ Warn foremen a couple of weeks before safety .inspections: This will let them get things in ship shape in plenty ‘of time, save them the trouble of keeping prepared for unexpected inspections. Keep the plant engineers out of the safety act as long as pos- sible. These fellows have all kinds of ideas, and if they engineer risks out of plant processes, how are you going to establish a BAD safety record against which to match your good improvements?” oS GI70O KWOWBETIER ... KEEP YOU. AND KEEP. HE slogan which appears ab Safety Council as especially a scarcer, the loss of a job thr, misfortune and immediate loss of job. re The purpose of the safety pry is to keep lumber workers in thej The job is made safe, with be one in the operation joins in effe- by eliminating the causes of accic These pages in the B.C. Lum, of directing attention to the poss the part of labor and management, Preaching about safety is not of safety achievements and practi The best advice comes from “4 with accidents, and have learned the job. | It is for this purpose that thg Worker requests the co-operation is made for information, with pi} learned on the job. We present below an exam| President J. Epp, Local 1-363, picture, because in a setting such4 a safety regulation was ignored. The above picture is intended: regulation which states: “853. W! before the green timber and into t The story of the fatality was téé as reported by President Epp. Hejl to the lesson, which, if heeded, may* caused by a flying chunk of snag., uw ALWAYS EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED 4 —YOUU STAY SAFER S WUT HE DISCOVERED hE, STaNoM CME AW QUERHEAD LORDS A FOOLISH Eumpee’