10 THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER OCTOBER-NOVEMBER, 1976
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AT SILVER RIVER LOG

UNION AND COMPANY
COOPERATE IN TRAINING PROGRAM

Added effort toward accident
prevention is the keynote at the
Silver River Logging Division
of B.C. Forest Products.

Taking positive action
following a comprehensive
study involving company and
I.W.A. safety officers, a full
fledged Job Instruction Safety
Training Plan went into action
at the logging operation
located north east of Harrison
Lake in the Haney Local 1-367
territory.

While the plan primarily
provides for all phases of
training of new employees, it
will also.serve for the
upgrading of present em-
ployees from the several
logging divisions of the com-
pany, in preparing employees
for new job levels.

The program of ‘‘on the job”
training. evolves around the
need for safe work practices,
and resulted from recom-
mendations developed by the
I.W.A.. Regional Director of
Safety and Health, in con-
junction with the Haney Local
1-367 officers and represented
by Local Safety Director
Gordon Claypool and Financial
Secretary Erik Wood.

Don Staples, Director of
Logging safety for B.C. Forest
Products in the area, together
with divisional manager Don
Ramsey represented the
company in the joint field
survey with the union team,
and finalized the many
essentials through head office
personnel.

The very core of the job

safety training required the

movement of two
experienced, long
loggers, into the area as in-
structors. I.W.A. members
Mike Freylinger and Roy
Walker were appointed.

Rounding out the team in-
volved is Bob McDonald, now a
supervisor in the Silver River
Camp, and who is well known
as a logger and formerly an
active member of the Duncan
Local 1-80 executive.

The course is designed to
train chokermen, rigging
Slingers, hook and rig, steel
spar engineers, and truck
drivers. While chokerman
trainees will be drawn from
_ unemployed unskilled persons,
the balance of the training
program will be directed to

greatly

term>

CHASER TRAINEE — Dave Steward in action disconnecting

upgrading employees resulting

from open _ applications
received from company em-
ployees from their six

mainland logging divisions.
Regular job rates and
conditions will apply, but in
order to provide maximum
training time, the crew will not
be removed from schooling

. and allocated to regular

production until completion of
the course timetable, which

terminates with basic first aid

training.

In concluding formal
agreement with the Company,
Local Union President Joe
Fowler expressed his pleasure
with the structuring of this
meaningful course, which is
already in full swing.

chokers from “‘turn’’ of logs developed by trainee choker-

men,

UNION AND COMPANY MEMBERS pose for picture during one of the many meetings held
to get the program underway. L-R first row: Mike Campbell, Business Agent; Mike
Freylinger, Committee; Gordon Claypool, Local Safety Director. 2nd row: John Hirsch-
man, Jerry Reivian, Al McConnell (Chaseman), Bernie Krueger (Secretary), Fred
Bullington, Bob McDonald (Woods Foreman). 3rd row: Morris Thomas, Willy Pettis, Rich
Armstrong, Don Ramsey (Superintendent), Bill Wood, Road Crew,

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NEW OFFICERS of the Regional Safety and Health Council.
From left, Jack Kerssons, 2nd Vice-Chairman; Tom McCrae,
Chairman; Verna Ledger, Recording Secretary; Jack
Welder, 1st Vice-Chairman, Jack Higgens, 3rd Vice-
Chairman. A full report on the two-day Council meeting held

prior to the Regional Convention will be given in the next
issue of the Lumberworker. : - is

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— ne Piet :
LEFT TO RIGHT — Erik Wood, Sec. Treas., Gordon
Claypool, Safety Director and Mike Freylinger — Instructor

RIGHT FRONT — Mike Freylinger with trainees. Centre (L-

R) Don Choquer, Len Divenere, Harry Adolph, Jock
Wotherspoon. Rear (L-R) Abe Hamill, Neil Huard. The

trainee group includes four chokermen, one rigging slinger,
one hookfender. . : (

L—R: Terry Watkins, Steel Spar Trainee; Dave Stewart,

Chaser Trainee; Bob McDonald,

Super;
Assistant Instructor.

Roy Wa Iker,