‘CREOSOTING PLANT CREW WORKS
655 DAYS WITHOUT ACCIDENTS.

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in the crew going 655 days without a compensable accident.

Committee Sharman): R. Russell, C. Phillips, W. Wilson (Safety Committee Secretary), A. Hughes, and D.
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Director Explains

Success Methods

DDARD

By MARTHA GODD. ;
Safety Director, Local 1-217, IWA

A truly remarkable safe’
b:
ited; North Vancouver, B.C.,

ty record, never

before attai

sme arked their 655th day without a compensable

lant are justly proud of their

from injury or accident for all
employces, for as great a period
as possibl

Previous’ Safety Record
Broken by “Back Strain”
The employees manage-

and

ment of Canada Creosoting have
i onclusion that

r illing its pu
oe e only when the welfare and
i we is

MATCHED Pi ae being lifted is yy crane for st eet give tl Tie
appearance of hanging just-over the heads of Safety Commit-

tee members ust Me
IL out of har

eft) and Art Palmer, who are in fact

ed workman return

injw
until he has fully penvarel vie |

injury. A noteworthy example of
this occurred 655 days ago, when

and able to perform his
work et safety, not only to.
himself, but also to his fellow
worker. This honest approach to
safety is working at Canada

out first receiving specific safety
vant to the safe
juties

he af mi
duct safety discussions during
as hour with all em-

ch antineone Haleoratta
safety committee spends four
hours conducting a safety tour
and discussing with the men on
their ‘jobs, any. safety problem

or

From left, H. Dyer, B. Palmer, C. Olson, V. Sentee A. Palmer (Safety
Lyn

STACKING LUMBER in yard prior to its creosote treatment.

uggestions that they may

have, Yo make the operation a

safety committee,

‘Art Palmer,

and the plant manager, Vic Jame-
50

we
&

ager,

employment, all

stated
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believe in safety f
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report unsafe condi
encourage fellow wi

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Workmen's

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strained his back. If a “safety
record” had been the aim of the

room, or some other place in the
plant.
Instead, the injured workman

safest plants in the industry.

Development of Safety
ecognition

mployees, through the ef-

ie of the pent safety commit-

tee, and its chairman, Art Palm-

er, are instr ucted the proper

of one week, and

when he re- | job. No employee at Canada Cre-

tabnadl to work, he was fully re- | osoting performs any work, with-