aie ee a te a To a ee ee ae B.C. LUMBER WORKER i Jof First Aid supplies that fquipment listed in the First fard are deemed by medical um needs that are essential f injured workmen, taking Y of probable injuries, avail- } facilities, and the difficul- i st Aid treatment Can: pm shock or loss of blood, X ij of injury, jij of complications, fuffering, tin to those cases where it is situde of optimism, We the fullest recovery in the dministered First Aid is a sures healthy workers of wsistently performing their Chairman eretery D, Commissioner masation Board GUARDS PAY DIVIDENDS | Guards will always form an { important part of any plant safety program. Although the number needed have been re- duced by the installation of in- dividual drives on machines and the increased attention given to designing and incor- guards on new ma- Porating lations—No. 135-138 and subse- quent regulations stating the guarding required on specific in- stallations furnishes an excellent guide. The injury experience over the past years too often demonstrate the need of addi- tional guards. Fully Guard In many plants an established rule is to fully guard each opera- chines by the manufacturers, they are still necessary in ac- cident prevention work. Usually the machines and places in the plant where guards are required are easily recogniz- ed. General regulations govern- ing guarding as outlined in the WCB Accident Prevention Regu- danger. Often this means install- ing guards on machines only occasionally used or which cre- ate hazards only when used in a certain way. The DeWalt saw is an example of this type of machine. When used in the normal way as'a cut- off saw, only the usual hazards found in the operation of any saw must be considered. How- er, as this is an all purpose saw tion if it is practical to do so.|manufactured to make many This rule is based on the theory; angle cuts it is often. used as a that if a silght hazard, exists,|rip saw, then the danger of ma- even though no accident has been recorded from it, definite action should be taken to’ eliminate the Di Mel Nad ts 2 ETC Le ea OOTbALL PLAYERS Ke YOUR CUE— terial being kicked back becomes an important factor. Kick-backs on this installation 1 = may be more numerous than on other types of rip saws due to the lack of a splitter. To guard against the danger of anyone be- ing injured by a kick-back from their DeWalt saw, L. & K. Lum- ber (North Shore) Ltd. installed the heavy chain guard shown in the accompanying photographs. In Fig. 1 is shown the DeWalt saw turned in line with the straight edge ready to be used for ripping lumber. The picture also shows the extended work table which is in itself, an excel- lent safety feature. This exten- sion is wide enough to give pro- tection from the saw, even at the extreme limit of its forward travel. 3 The heavy chain illustrated in Fig. 2 is hinged to the wall so that it may be swung back out of the way. When in position over the table it forms an effective barrier against any material thrown by the saw. To the Safety Committee of L. & K. Lumber (North Shore) Ltd. goes the cre- dit for recognizing a potentially dangerous condition and having this effective guard installed be- Ifore an injury occurred. —B.C, Lumberman. Local Urges Full © Convalescence A safety resolution passed at the last IWA District Convention in which it was charged that companies place safety records ahead of the workers, was a subject for warm debate at a meeting of Local 1-80, IWA, as a result of a letter from the District Secretary-Treasurer, George Mitchell, requesting the Locals’ views on the matter. The convention alleged that the B.C. logging and lumber opera- tors are interested in safety purely from a monetary angle rather than a humanitarian one. The letter stated, that operators are waging a campaign to keep injured workers on the job rather than on compensation “and this practice is often detrimental to the recovery of the injured per- son”. back to work a few days after breaking a limb. When you get hurt on a job, why should you, as a compensation case, go back to work with a cast on your arm?” It was pointed out-by an offi- cial, however, that should this happen, the Compensation Board, o if informed, will go out and take the injured employee off the job. “It is very often the men them- selves who are at fault,” he con- tinued, “and they should stick up for their rights. Don’t go back to work when you're not fit — you needn’t.”” Board Criticized It was also alleged that the Compensation Board was not do- ing its job efficiently. “They, too, could stand a jab in the ribs with a broken stick!” On the subject of safety drives, the meeting indignantly. charged that fear was being installed into the minds of the workers as a re- sult of these drives and, very often, men were not reporting accidents because of endangering the company’s safety records. It was decided to circulate the letter from Secretary Mitchell to sub-locals. Assistance Asked The council resolved to ask doctors for assistance and re- quested cooperation from the IWA district safety directors and all local unions in fighting any cases of company officials at- tempting to intimidate workers into working when they should be on compensation. The 150-odd members who at- tended Sunday’s meeting at the IWA Hall were not slow to voice their opinions and give examples of companies “who are gradually putting pressure on men to re- turn to work when they are on compensation.” Men at Fault A leading spokesman in the de- bate said, “I have known men go 1955—— COAST LOCEING ACCIDENTS fl “ x OCCUPATION: Second loader. AGE: 23. EXPERIENCE: Several years. The mainline at the yarding operation ran dangerously close to the stump used as an ‘anchorage for the nose guy at the loading boom. A turn hooked the wraps on the stump, throwing slack in the -| nose guy line. The nose of the loading boom dropped, pinning the second loader. A ‘The stump was not fully notehed.