ted by

OUR — MANAGEMENT

ts Safety Committee

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B.C. LUMBER WORKER

and IWA officals in a ra

ALASKA PINE & CELLULOSE COMPANY (New i ivisic
dio discussion of their Safety Prog!

il joi ‘ith W.C.B.
IWA GreenGold broadcast.

From Page 6

ansroek arate and Trans-
fer jon Lumber

e best record in ee plywood
iste was wo!

sash and door
also_bestowed

Band Division oh Meni an &
Bloedel Ltd., Vancouver.

Other awards in the shingle
mill industry went to Stave Lake

c

n by the Victoria

n of B.C. Forest
fore:

industry

. tion

p _ AWARDS :

Cedar, J. & M, Mills Ltd., N
retinas and Batiste) ie
dustries Ltd., Vani

Pulp Record
The pulp mill pena was won
rest Products,

i 1e
nada Ltd.,

Paitiestin tne

‘y
is year, everyone in
the industry will jibe for an
even better record,” he said.

Boom foreman at the Tahsis

working alon
m without floatation
equipment.

Boomman Drowns

The victim had been issued
floatation equipment by the
Company in compliance with
the recent WCB order but
for some reason unknown he
wearing it when the
accident occurred.

was not

“IN ONE EAR"

By MAMIE MALONEY
Safety Can Be Interesting

e of the most sntnaplting topics to write about is safety
ack Atkinson of the Joint Forest Products Safety
Safety Director dropped around to

for Safety Week I said as much. But

aie GMs wi ith r 15 minutes or so, I got carried away

rue that safety campaigns ff. Last year there
were 18 reatauities in ie British Columbia logging industry.
But of these, only 48 occurred among companies who went all
out on safety campaigns.

Bughear of the safety promoters is the geter rich- autick log-
ger. The type uch works F
into the dark. The combi
work without sufficient Tight i is asking for peciaeats to happ
Mr. Atkinson contends.

abor-Management Co-operate

What about the Une aenS I asked him? A great many

he woods. Wouldn’t their lack of

English ai nt unfamiliarity with logging methods pose a serious
safety th
That pro ble, he explained a is anticipated and i

is met by
other worl ee who speak their language.

is to fedietsinate! the new Canadian

the first thing: worker in
be relporactives”
The one hazard to overcome is the newcomer’s over-anxiety

ase. He's so keen to make a good showing on the job that
a ‘ast and must be slowed down
in the ins of safety
The B.C. lumber “industry, Mr.
program in all

Atkinson tells me, has the
of North America. It

RMGSTIC Royse Foesls taana centent*lisendes\ and hie

0 be a fact because on two occasions that
Mr. Tet Nadialled@oa/ ae he hea bean accompanied by
company men and pnion representatives, and all of them talk-
ing, surprisi ith 0}

The aeaty, “Kis
espite criticism, sometimes of its RReconel and at other
ee of its awards, the Workmen’s eae eee Act for Brit-
is] lumbi nd most generous in all of North
i ids.
The objec tive for this year’s Safety Week, commencing:
y 6, i accidents.

nat year only one day was accident-free but when 1 remarked
that this Semel eal worth boasting about, Mr. Atkinson
mn the re

pro’ a a
ee sissies aid ecient in the weeds a good deal more common
than they are n
“his year approach is being tried. Loggers’ wives
are to be involved i in mn safely as they, after all, are the ones to
ler to fenligrze aon
slogans, jumble contests with prizes will be staged
as part of safety week.
it the most important role the logger’s wife plays, Mr.

suffer In ord

inson agreed,
eyca Sas e pe true of all accident cases, whether they be on
the hig) ghw: rin the woods, that the angr, pee man, the unhappy
man, rries rather than
on his Heit is sithe one that is most Pcienepane
So fill the) old boy with a good Ue eae and some sweet
talk, gals, T the best safety
measure of a

Reprinted from the Vancouver Sun