6 B.C. LUMBER WORKER: Industrial Safety Department proposed for B.C. Federation Proposal to form an Industrial Safety Council as a Depart- ment of the B.C. Federation of Labour emerged from dis- cussions on safety problems at the Workmen’s Compensation Seminar and Safety Conference, held recently under the joint auspices of the Board and the B.C. Federation of Labour. The proposal met with general approval, and will be given im- mediate consideration by the Fed- eration’s officials, Chief Inspector Arthur Francis and [WA District Safety Director, John T. Atkinson, led the discus- sions on the promotion of an ef- fective safety program in industry. Said, the IWA Official, “Many of the alibis heard to cover unsafe acts or unsafe conditions are the equivalent of the criminal conceal- ment of a dead body after a fatality.” He outlined those factors which, he stated, are indispensable to the effective promotion of safety on the job. These are mainly he ex- plained. 1. Promotion of ‘safety is hu- mane. The greatest reward for these precautions which make working conditions safe is the pre- servation of life and limb, with resulting increase in the sum total of human happiness. On the nega- tive side, terrible tragedies are averted, On the more positive as- pect, workers are given an en- hanced opportunity for happiness. 2. Safety measures increase pro- ductivity. Accidents have a de- moralizing effect on the working force that extends long after the accident has occurred. An accident inevitably means delayed produc- tion or a temporary stoppage. Pro- duction which is geared to run smoothly, because accident hazards are foreseen and eradicated, gives steadily increasing promise of ex- pansion, and lowered costs per unit of production. 3. Safety measures reduce costs to industry and to the workers. The direct and indirect costs of accidents is staggering. Equipment is damaged. Time losses accumu- late. Customers are inconvenienced by delays. The dove-tailing of one Process with another is broken, and lowers the end output per man-hour. Equally important are the losses occasioned the injured workers. Regardless of any compensation provided, nothing ever completely reimbursese a worker for the loss of the amenities which follow in the wake of a serious’ accident. 4, Safety maintains morale in the working force. When the work of any group of workers is so re- gulated and co-ordinated as to achieve the maximum safety, morale is high, because mental attitudes are relaxed, cheerful, ex- press feelings of. security. 5. Public relations for mange- ment and labour are improved by attention to safety measures. Where management and labour both make a genuine effort to practice safety, relations are placed on a more cordial basis. Where it is known throughout the com- munity that the safety factors are a dominant feature of production, the measure of public good will or response to sale’s appeal is im- measurable strengthened The speaker affirmed that 99% of all accidents are due to either unsafe acts or unsafe conditions. Only 1% could be ascribed to what See Page 7 SAFETY CONFERENCE secti sored by the B.C. Feder: in of the recent Workmen’s Compensation Seminar and Safety Conference, spon- ion of Labour in cooperation with the WCB. Course was conducted by Arthur Francis, WCB Accident Prevention Director, (left) and John T. Atkinson, !WA Safety Director, (centre). Visitor to the Conference was ‘Doc’ Lamoureux, Director of the United Steel Workers’ Safety & Health Department. ‘Werkenn’s Corona COMPENSATION SEMINAR delegates in the Safety Department of the Board, listening to WCB Inspector Jim Whitelaw is ‘Department. + ie sina HIF O EXPECT THE UNENPECTED!. 3. i1. 15. 17. 2nd Issue, June First + | | Obtain first aid for every injury, rp or a scratch is to invite infection. W: first to become infected. if | Extreme caution should be used ik y evaported from old ottion een inful burn if applied directly Tye iiplacediayer watlladiags iy) The substitution of a non-i mended in First Aid Kits, Theat. 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