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Occupation Labourer

Age 25

Experience 2 years

On the morning of February 27th this yesr, a 25-year old Vancouver workman felt thirsty. He went to the
back of his work truck end eyed o whisky bottle which he thought contained water. He put the bottle to
bis lps and took several swallows. Seconds later he clutched his stomach end cried out to his fellow
workmen for help, Within minutes he was dead, The innocent looking bottle contained o highly poisonous
weed killer, loaded with amenic, From 6 to 20 drops would have proved fatal and there were no steps that
could have been taken to prevent the man's death after consumption of the weed killer.

BE SUSPICIOUS OF ANY LIQUID IN AN UNMARKED BOTTLE.

ONE SIP CAN KILL,

WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BOARD OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

First Aid Group
To Study WCB -

B.C. industrial first aid at-
tendants will be given the op-
portunity of taking a close look
at the operations of the WCB
and of studying the Workmen’s
Compensation Act at a two-day
seminar Friday, February 5th
and Saturday, February 6th at

the WCB Head Office in Van-
couver.

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EDGAR B. BEELEY

Annual Event
Sponsored by the Industrial

First Aid Attendants Association
of B.C., the seminar, which will be
an annual event, will be open to
members and non-members of
that group.

Sparking the affair is a three-
man committee made up of W. H.
Mahler, Gus Poreher and Edgar

in advance as the seminar will be
limited to 150 applicants.

WCB Chairman, J. E. Eades,
Q.C., offered the full support of

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GUS PORCHER

the Board to the Association in
sponsoring this seminar when he
addressed their annual convention
last October.

Mr. Beeley, I.F.A.A. President,

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I. Beeley, all executive members |.

of the I.F.A.A,

Some of the topics to be dis-
cussed include: Workmen's Com-
pensation Amendments and Bene-
fits Payable; Financial Aspects of
Compensation; How the First Aid
Attendant Can Assist the Board
in Relation to Compensation
Claims; and Function of the
Board of Examiners.

Top officials from the WCB
will address the delegates on each
subject and will conduct a ques-
tion and answer period after each
topic.

- Colour Movie
A recently produced colour

movie wili be shown to wind up
the session on the Saturday after-

is no fee for the seminar
tions must be made

W. H. MAHLER

said this is a wonderful oppor-
tunity for First Aid Attendants in
the Province to broaden their
knowledge and understanding of
Workmen’s Compensation. “Em-
ployers can benefit too by having
their Attendants at the Seminar
hecause the more the Attendants
know about the Act and its
ramifications, the greater service
they will be able to render to
their employers,” Mr. Beeley said.

by JOHN T. ATKINSON
IWA Regional Safety Director

Loggers and mill workers

returning to camps and mills

in the forest industry should immediately undertake to parti-
cipate and interest themselves in the function of the job

safety committees.

It is their duty to insist that these

safety committees be organized and set up for their protec-

tion.

It is not enough to ensure its
function by law. It is also very
necessary to see that it works.
To often these committees are
set-up according to Workmen’s
Compensation Board regulations
and then ignored.

To be a success it needs and
must have the support and contri-
butions of suggestions and recom-
mendations of the work force.
Their years of experience can be
used to advantage when their
skills and knowledge are shared
with each other through the me-
dium of this committee.

We in the Union believe that
we can have all the safety we
want if we are willing to work for
it. Well organized joint safety
committees including representa-
tives of both labour and manage-
ment can arouse a sense of res-
ponsibility in every worker with
regard to his share in a sound
safety programme.

If this is done the accident rate
in that operation will inevitably
decline. Experience has taught us
that when men who know their
stuff confer with good will and }
agree to uphold a safety pro-|
gramme adapted to their work,
they can achieve miracles in this
field.

No one profits more as a result
of such accomplishments than the }

JOHN T. ATKINSON

workers themselves. Labour and
management has everything to
gain by the promotion of safety
in any industrial unit. These com-
nittees must accept the respon-
sibility of promoting enthusiasm
among the employees for a joint
effort that will bring them cleaner

and better and safer places to
work,
Apart from engineering and

supervision factors which are
under control of management the
most important ingredient in the

success of a safety programme is
the development of a correct and
proper safety attitude towards it.

Management can do much to
achieve this by simply being hon-
est and sincere. No where in the
field of management-labour rela-
tions is there greater opportunity
to protect mutual interests and
benefits than through a coopera-
tive effort in safety.

When a plant is organized for
safety, certain general principles
are followed, which never fail to
reduce the accident rate. First,
management and the workers set
out to uncover the actual causes
of accidents; secondly, they take
steps to control, safeguard or eli-
minate those features of the oper-
ation’s environment which give
rise to accidents.

Thirdly, they control or elimin-
ate those working habits which
have contributed to accidents, and
finally they keep the ideals of safe-
ty constantly before the workers
by educational or propaganda acti-
vities. Back of it all lies the firm
resolve to visualize and realize
conditions that are within the
grasp of men of good will and
determination.

Accidents can be prevented, and
to do so is good ethics and good
business. The technique of preven-
tion is not difficult for it is mainly
a matter of commonsense and
good will. Safety in any operation
is not a one-man job. Accidents
are not eliminated until every man
and woman in_ the organization,
from the top to the bottom, ac-
cepts his or her full share of res-
ponsibility for making safety a
reality of everyday life.

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Time Out
Poverty is a state of mind
brought on by a neighbour’s new
Car,
“Daddy, what is heredity?”
“Heredity, my boy, is what a
man believes in until his son be-
gins to act like a fool.”
* % *
Boy, scowling at report card:
“Of course I seem stupid to the
teacher. She’s a college graduate.”

* *

The fussy old lady in the pet
shop had inspected every dog in
the place, but insisted the price of
each was too high.

“Well, madam,’ said the clerk i

finally, “Perhaps you should look
up a used cur dealer.”

Anxious wife, as she observed
her husband fishing in a bucket

in the living room: “I'd take him

to a psychiatrist, but we need the
fish.”

One thing about drive-in
movies, you know where your

wife’s shoes are when you're ready
to go home.
* * *

A guide in Yosemite National
Park was driving a group of tour-
ists through the valley. As they
rode among the big trees, one of
the visitors asked the guide if
he knew how old the trees were.
“Yes, indeed,’ he answered.
“Those trees are three thousand
and six years old.”

Amazed at this accurate know-
ledge, the tourist asked: “But
how do you know?”

“Wal, it’s this way,” the guide
drawled, “There was a smart
young woman out here from the
east about six years ago. She
said those trees was three thous-
and years old, so I figure they
must be three thousands and six
by now.”

Safety Briefs

Guards Study First Aid

The company physician at the Hammermill Paper Co.,. Erie,
Pa., trains members of the plant protection department in first
aid. The course consists of 20 demonstrations lectures‘ held once
a week. The students use a textbook and weekly lesson outlines.

Aggressive Water
Not all plastics are suitable for pipe ment to carry drinking
water. Some water, which is slightly aggressive chemically, though

stili fit to drink, can extract toxic substances from the plastic. The
hazard to health is obvious.

Author Is Arsonist

Baltimore arson investigators, suspecting that a $100,000 lum-
ber yard fire was set by a juvenile, went to the English teachers
in a nearby school for help. The teachers assigned the task of
writing a theme on “The Recent Fire in our Neighborhood.” One

boy turned in such a complete report that he was selected for
questioning. He confessed.

Office Fire

Office mechanization brings with it hazards found only in
blue-collar jobs a few years ago. A girl who was filling the reser-
voir of a duplicating machine with a flammable solution put in
too much fluid. The overflow vaporized and, since the machine

had been left running, caught fire. Luckily for her, she had not
spilled fluid on her clothing.

Pallet Standardization

_ Materials handling is about to catch up with Eli Whitney and
his cotton gin. Standardizing sizes of pallets from the current 300
different sizes to 11 standard sizes for all purposes will give
major economies. Mass production of pallets will be possible.
Employers can make better use of warehouse and rolling stock
space. With only a few sizes to stock, users can send pallets back
loaded with finished goods rather than “deadheading” them back.

: Packers, Posture, Production

A bright office equipment salesman convinced the manage-
ment of a candy manufacturing company that secretarial chairs
would help solve some of their problems. They put posture chairs
on the production line, and within a month production was up
one-third, and the absenteeism problem had disappeared.

Backfire Fires Gasoline

A utilities crew had trouble with a stalled truck. They took
off the carburetor, drained it, reinstalled it, and primed it with
gasoline poured from a paper cup. Overwhelmed by the generous
gulp of fuel in the carburetor, the engine backfired and set the
cup of gasoline afire. The man holding the cup naturally got rid of
it as soon as possible. The flaming cup hit the foreman on the leg
causing second degree burns.

Vanadium Residue

Boiler cleaners are exposed to yanadium oxide irritation if
the boiler has been fired with certain bunker C fuel oils, Men on
this job should be fully clothed and wear gloves, goggles and res-

pirators.
Hot Beef

A Fire Prevention Week observance in Philadelphia was
thrown off schedule when a moving mock-up of Mrs. O'Leary’s
cow developed a short circuit and began giving off pungent blue
smoke,