THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

District

: 14
= Sunshine
Coast

15
Powell
River

16
Mount
Waddington

| 16a, 29
Ocean
Falls

17
Skeena

F 18
| Kitimat-
Stikine

23
8 Capital

24
Cowichan

25
Nanaimo

26
Alberni-
Clayoquot

a7
Comox-
rathcona

Sub Class

Lost Time

Claims

Fatal Lost Wages

1 168,192
11,903

145,181
964

3,012

4 3733319
9,400

158

307

103,857

2 126,142
2,968

2 299,369
34,910

1255

240

S 80,800
10,160

28,784

2 78,314
Pipe) BAe)

2 298,432
628

10,864

9,994

4 576,243
7,734

7,701

Quite a few members know
of my appointment as Safety
Director and that it became
effective June 18th, but this

| message is to say ‘“‘Hello”’ to all

the I.W.A. members spread
over the territory covered by
the four Western provinces,
which will now be my stamping
grounds in promoting and
maintaining our accident
prevention program.

We will have to do some
rebuilding, some mending and
some adjusting, but we are
going to have a first class
safety. program. Members of
Safety Committees, Local
Union Safety Directors, Local
Safety Councils and the
Regional Safety Director are
all going to have to dig in
harder than ever, and surely
we recognize the hard work
and effort that many active
safety program members
already perform.

Now that Ihave the authority
to call on officers of the
Regional Safety Council and
Local Union Safety Directors
for help to cover investigations
and inquests, more of my time
can be devoted to co-ordinating
and directing the Union’s
safety program.

We want to fill the crying
need for expanding and im- —
proving the safety education of

those who are active in the

promotion of safety, and to
make possible the recruiting of
many more active safety
workers.

Changing methods in our
industry have increased the
chances that new hazards will
be created which will require
new vigor in applying safety
precautions if we are going to
catch up. :

Well, to wind up this session,
may I urge the Local Unions to
examine the idea of setting up
active safety councils, as was
recently done at Port Alberni,
and for those Locals which
don’t have Safety Directors or
an Officer primarily respons-
ible for pushing the safety
program in the Local, I say,
“How about it?”

And finally, if you have some
ideas on improving the safety
program, drop a line to me.at
2859 Commercial Drive,
Vancouver, B.C. In the mean-
time, if you want help from me
don’t hesitate to phone or
write.

MAX SALTER,
Regional Safety Director

SAFETY COUNCIL in session in the meeting room of Port

Alberni’s headquarters.

OFFICERS OF LOCAL 1-85’s Safety Council pose for their
picture with.Max Salter, the new Regional Safety Director,
who attended the Councils meeting June 21-22 in the Local’s
headquarters in Port Alberni, Group, back row left, Borden

Howes, 2nd Vice-Chairman;

Dick Laffen, Ist Vice-

Chairman; Max Salter, Regional Safety Director. Front row,
left, Bob Muir, Local Safety Director; Cliff Tompson,
Chairman; Chuck Parmin, Secretary. ;

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