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FOREST PRODUCTS SAFETY COMMITTEE officials consult wit!

John T. Atkinson, WA, and Robert Currie.

enior Engineer Robert Curric, Industrial
Department, Chicago, on plans for Safety Week in British Columbia. (From left) Reg. E. Jacks
Department of Labour; Doug. Watts, Workmen's Compensation Board; J.

Federal
Roughton, B.C. Loggers’ Association;

“BACK THE ATTACK"

Safety Week for 1957 will be observed for the week
commencing May 6, it was announced this week in a proc-
lamation issued by Premier W. A. C. Bennett, urging la-
bor and management to “Back the Attack” on needless
accidents.

Promotion of features designed |———____—_———
to arouse industry-wide interest | be directed mainly to publicizing

in the effort to set a new low in
accidents for the week and the
ensuing year are in the hands of
a top-level Forest Products
Safety Committee.

Representative Committee

The committee, with Mr. An-
thony F. Douglas of the B.C.
Loggers Association, as chair-
man, is representative of all
management and labor segments
of the province’s lumber indus-
try. Vice-chairman is the IWA
District Safety Director, John T.
Atkinson.

The activities of the Forest
“Products Safety Committee will

suitably the purposes of Safety
Week.

It will also furnish the job
safety committees throughout the
industry with suggestions re-
garding a fully co-ordinated ef-
fort to lower the accident fre-
quency rate, with popular inter-
est-provoking features.

Hoist Flag

As-in former years, safety
committees will hoist the green
flag of safety on the morning of
May 6, and thereupon strive to
maintain an accident-free period,
symbolized by the continued dis-
play of the flag.

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Opening Ceremony

Commencement of an industry-
wide attack on accidents will be

signalled from an opening cere-|

mony to be held on the grounds
of the Rehabilitation Centre of
the Workmen’s Compensation
Board. At this ceremony, the
Provincial Minister of Labour,
assisted by representatives of
government, management, and
labor will launch the campaign.

Job safety committees are be-
ing also adyised to hold early
meetings, and make suitable

plans for their own operations.| )

This year, all committees will
have an abundance of material
from which to draw valuable sug-
gestions for their own features.

A warning has been issued
against unwise competitions,
likely to cause tension, always
dangerous under modern produc-
tion methods.

Interesting contests will be an-
nounced shortly, it is expected,
through which recognition will be
given to those operations tackl-
ing the project with the most ef-
fective methods.

, MOVING LOGS —

Total Dead — 19h)

IWA DISTRICT SAFETY DIRECTOR John T, Atkinson (right),
and Charles Weatherill, examine burns to the life jacket Weatherill
was wearing when he was thrown from boom boat pictured here,
following an explosion caused by his striking a match near the ac-
cumulated gas in the bilge. ‘

REACHING IWT0 MOVING
MACHINERY 1S ANOTHER
6000 WAY T0 LOSE A HAND!

SLIPPING, FALLING —
CHOKERS, TONGS, etc.

STRAINS —

STRIKING AGAINST
OBJECTS —

AXE, SAW CUTS —
LIMBS, CHUNKS —
MISCELLANEOUS —

Total Dead — 72):
Injured — 4,969),
LUMBER MiILL|

STRUCK BY OBJECTS — 1,132))
FALLS, SLIPS — 867
STRAINS — 781

CAUGHT BETWEEN
OBJECTS —

STRIKING AGAINST
OBJECTS —

AXE, SAW CUTS —

CAUGHT IN
MACHINERY —

MISCELLANEOUS —

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