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THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

FOR MOST INDUSTRIES

WCB ASSESSMENT RATES NORMAL

Workmen’s Compensation
Board assessment rates for the
vast majority of B.C.’s 48,000:
employers will remain un-
changed in 1973 for the fourth
year in a row, Cyril White,
Q.C., chairman of the WCB
announced today.

_ Decreases in assessment
rates will go into effect for two
of the 83 classes and subclasses
of industry covered by the
Workmen’s Compensation Act,
while eight sub classes will
receive slight increases.

Largest decrease was in the
assessment rates for coal
mining which will drop 26 per
cent from $4.75 to $3.50 per $100
of assessable payroll. Metal
mining has been reduced
approximately 3 per cent.

The growth in the mining
industry and the trend toward
open pit mining, which has a
lower accident cost experience
than underground mining, has
been responsible for the

decrease in assessment rates,
Mr. White said.

The eight industry classes
which will pay slightly higher
assessments include: plywood,
sash and door factories; laun-
dries; cleaning or dyeing
plants; printing; lumber or
builders supply yards; lathing,
painting; lumber or builders
supply yards; lathing, painting
and plastering; shipyards and
dry dock operations; bus lines;
and stevedoring and wharf
operations.

WCB assessment rates for
all industries in the province
are determined by each indus-
try’s accident cost experience.

B.C. SAFETY COUNCIL OFFERS
COMMERCIAL EXPLOSIVES COURSE

A Commercial Explosives
Course is now being offered by
the B.C. Safety Council.

Classes will cover instruc-
tion in the transportation,
storage and use of explosives.

Only those nineteen years of
age and older, in good physical
and emotional condition, and
with at least six months ex-
perience in blasting will be
eligible for this extensive
course.

MORE THAN THREE MILLION work injuries have been re-
to the Workmen’s Compensation Board of B.C. since
formation in 1917. Total injuries for 1971 were 109,000.

Upon completion of the three
day sessions, examinations for
Blaster’s tickets will be con-
ducted.

Course co-ordinator is
Johnny Coggins, for 27 years
an inspector with the Work-
men’s Compensation Board.
Johnny has: given several
thousand blaster’s examina-
tions throughout his career and
has conducted courses in ex-
plosives at Calgary, at BCIT,

for the Department of
Fisheries and the Department
of Forestry. In addition, he has
lectured to seismic crews in oil
rigs and taught proper blasting
techniques to men in logging
camps.

Registrants for this course
will greatly benefit from his
extensive. knowledge and
experience. Cost of the course,
which will run Mondays, Tues-
days and Wednesdays, with
examinations on Thursdays
and/or Fridays, is $30 (for
member companies) and $35
(for non-member companies).

For full details contact the
Council at 1477 West Pender
Street, Vancouver 5, or phone
684-1351.

LIGHTER SIDE

Chokerman Charlie says that
marriage is the process of
finding out what kind of guy
your wife would have
preferred.

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Kamloops Katie says that an
optimist is a husband who goes
down to the marriage bureau
to see if his license has expired.

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Kamloops Katie warned her
friend not to look too hard for
an ideal man — a husband is a
lot easier to find!

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Chokerman Charlie says a
husband is what’s left of the
lover after the nerve has been

removed.
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Sam, the machinery sales-
man, says a girl doesn’t have
to have too much on the ball as
long as she’s got something on
the boss!

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Mill employee: ‘‘How does it
feel to be the boss now?”’

Foreman: “It’s sure no fun
—now I have to get down early
to see who comes in late!”

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SAFETY EDUCATION is one of the prime responsibilities of
the Workmen‘s Compensation Board. During 1971, a total of

’ 876,180 pieces of safety literature were mailed out to em-
ployers and workérs in B.C. industry. They included safety
posters such as the one displayed by Nancy Daniels, as well
as copies of Accident Prevention Regulations, pamphlets,
special reports on injuries and safety films.

IGREATEST DESTROYER

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“I am more powerful than

the combined armies of the
world. I have destroyed more
men than all the wars of the
nation. I massacre thousands
of people in a single year. Iam
more deadly than bullets and I
have wrecked more homes
than the mightiest guns.

“T steal, in the United States
alone, over $500,000,000 each
year. I spare no one. I find my
victims among the rich and
poor alike, the young and old,
the strong and the weak.
Widows and orphans know me
to their ever lasting sorrow.

“I loom up in such pro-
portions that I cast my shadow
over every field of labour. I

lurk in . unseen places and do
most of my work silently. You
are warned against me, yet
you heed me not. I am relent-
less, merciless and cruel.

“T am everywhere; in the
home, on. the streets, in the
factory, at the railroad cross-
ing, on land, in the air, and on
the seas. I bring sickness,
degradation, and death. Yet
few seek me out to destroy me.
Icrush, I maim, I devastate; I
will give you nothing and rob
you of all you have.

“T am your worst enemy.
“TI AM CARELESSNESS.”’

—E. A. Wood, Safety Officer,
B.C. Hydro Hotline

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