sD eae B.C. LUMBER WORKER 7 ELF! L hich have a good’ safety pro- ince the burden of preventing srest, and of promoting safe ty a handful of conscientious utes these men stems from ‘for they come from all levels, jown the line to the common if haccident rates no one is in- tion is taken. One can often dy organization goes through sifety , but no one is foole ni bi contempt. ie general attitude is to leave e or to the willing enthusiast. L 0 one wants to have itto do anything in a positive rim acciden / rilem. It depends upon the dual concern, interest an safety as you are willing to yt in this Province that has 7 easy to do —It costs you idly. ilumbia wisation Board SAFETY COMMITTEE of the Vancouver Sawmill Di made possible the awarding to their plant of the abo . Ca ate ll, B.C.F.P. Vancouver Di aes Base Bra itgatBon ision Manager; Walter B.C. Forest Products Ltd., for 1955, whose keen interest in Thomson; Arthur Franci: . Wins 18th W.C.B. Award io safety serene held by Walter J. Thomson, Safety Committee Chairman. Top Soe is, Chief Inspector of the Work- ~ WHY FLIRT WITH DEATH? Last Monday I watched a man come close to death and I learned a lesson about people. It happened not a hundred miles from Vancouver along the sunshine coast. With no thought but the pleasures of ound the truck a charred wreck beside a small shone eng Sia oe ae several modest hom a steel Picked eee Pea dozen men and women w: whose working clo} stained face showed him how it s' He had been are welding a in the thick st things, and asked| a man smoked bur had been there, if it ial been ready. can happen, anytime, even on a a holiday, It was eating a picnic lunch beside a bay tha‘ ross member beneath the cuts deeply ply ; into the coast ine: while two other men installed a suddenly, from a mile acro: 7 e h i 3 the bay, I fg a woman’s smoke poured up in black fae. Hae eee aa scream. I looked across and| malevolent clouds and I decided) shielded in his helmet, his first smoke, ce white, itn greasy the explosion was a tire blowing | warning was a shout from one of black, mount into the|—two more went. The truck cab} the other spark eal paneer still te eae a tearing ia the| Was a mass of flame, the men} gas fy leaking auxiliary trees on the far shore, I saw that | s¢ 0 be poking at it. Finally | tani, SAIS ae (corn ror a ay at the ite ant Geadeainy |