WOMEN WORKERS
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By IWA SAFETY REPORTER

The Safety Director of Local 1-217, IWA, is a lady,
and I mean a lady. I’m talking about Martha Goddard.
T'll take on anybody who says different, for she has good
looks and charm. Although I may admire these qualities
only at a distance. and with discretion, I can with perfect
safety enthuse about her enthusiasm for safety. When
we quizzed her about the attitude of women in the in-
dustry toward the IWA safety program, she said, “Come
and see,” so we did, when she accompanied the District
Safety Director on a tour of inspection.

The photographs shown below are intended to indicate that
women in the lumber industry, are on their toes in dealing with any
special hazard that may crop up in their employment. In the first
picture you see...

wees @
+++ (1) Martha Goddard, Safety Director, Local 1-217 IWA, plan-
ning with District Safety Director, John T. Atkinson, a special tour
through the women’s section of the plywood industry. When they
arrive on the job, they discuss...

. 1+ (2) safety equipment, especially such equipment as may now
be provided for women, although women must observe in general the
same safety rules as the men. The accident frequency rate among I
the women is no higher, than among the men, but they must exercise

the same precautions. Most of their accidents in the plywood indus-
try are caused by slivers, she said, so next we see the...

» .~ (3) registered nurse, Pearl Phillip, Vancouver Plywoods Divi-
sion, MacMillan and Bloede! Ltd., removing a splinter from the finger,
as both she and Martha stress the Importance of reporting for first
aid treatment promptly after any accident, whether regarded as
serious or not at the moment. Next they examined a special problem

of the women, and that is the temptation to wear . . «

« (4) loose clothing, which sometimes creates a hazard, especially
on this taping machine, for which the safety engineers have not yet
been able to devise a satisfactory guard, owing to the variations in
the size of material being processed. After this demonstration of the
danger of being drawn into the saws by the edge of a loose garment,
Martha introduced her guests to. . .

the ri
covering preventing the hair from accidental entanglement, the gloves,
and the specially made aprons. The guests were then shown . . .

(5) two other women employees, plywood workers, who wear
ight kind of clothing. Note the closely fitting garments, the head

. . « (6) the guards, which are now installed on this Raimann Patcher
to prevent the operator against any careless slip of the fingers.

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Workmen's Cony

EDWIN J. EADES,
F. P, ARCHIBALD, :
CHRIS. W. PRITCH
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