JUNE-JULY, 1971 ‘ THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER WOSS CAMP HOSTS ANNUAL ENGLEWOOD SAFETY COUNCIL Approximately 200 people representing nine _par- ticipating companies assembled at Woss Camp, May lst when the Englewood Logging Division hosted the 21st Annual Englewood Safety Council. The Council, founded by Englewood in 1952, is sponsored annually on a rotating basis by member companies. The Council’s purpose is to exchange ideas and discuss methods which will benefit the safety of employees in the northern Vancouver Island region. Credited with being one of the most successful con- ferences ever held, the scope of the meeting included off-the- job as well as on-the-job safety. Too, the Coun¢il welcomed the Tahsis Company (Zeballos Div.) as a new participating member. Keynote speaker was W. M. (Scotty) Allison, Manager, Accident Control Dept., Council of Forest Industries of B.C. Scotty’s theme, ‘‘Safety for your future” highlighted six areas wherein the industry must make a premeditated, co- operative, and sustained effort “df we are sincere”’ in realizing the goals of our safety programmes. Using a ‘‘tackle puzzle’? Scotty demonstrated how each of the six elements of his topic (like the puzzle) are integrated and necessary in reaching a successful ob- jective. J. B. (Joe) Jarvis, Asst. to the Chairman, likened ‘‘ac- cepting responsibility for accident prevention’’ to playing baseball. ‘‘Think poitively,”’ he said, “for af- ter all pitching is 90 percent mental _ planning.’’ He suggested we should ‘‘form the habit of reaching aggressively and positively to the threats to our safety programme.” IWA Regional Safety Director, Andy Smith stressed “the important factor in safety is people—and they are our problems.” He added that the correction of unsafe conditions over the years tended to ignore people and create apathy. “Management and Union have to revise their thinking about right or wrong and take disciplinary action when violations occur. We cannot afford the luxury of keeping those who will not conform to the rules,”’ he said. Prior to adjourning for an excellent luncheon prepared ~ by Frank Belmonte and his competent staff, Mr. T. G. (Tom) Wright, General Manager of Coast Logging and Forest Operations, announced the recipients of various safety awards. To Crown Zellerbach’s Kokish division went the Bert Peck Trophy, emblematic of the participating member’s operation, showing the lowest W.C.B. frequency for the previous year. Kokish won the award with a ‘‘O” frequency. W.C.B. ‘‘Centennial Awards,”’ presented by J. D. (Jim) Paton, Director of - Accident Inspection Dept., W.C.B., were won by Pioneer Timber Ltd., Port McNeill (220,000 accident free man hours; and Englewood’s Nimpkish Camp (134,722 man hours). B.C. Safety Council Awards were presented by Harry Beamer (one of the founders of the Englewood Safety Coun- cil), to: Beach Camp Shop Dept. (Silver, for 19,644. ac- cident free hours); Division- wide Railroad Dept. (Silver, for 76,001 hours); Woss Camp Construction (Silver, for 52,418 hours); Atluck Camp Con- struction (Bronze, for 26,918 hours). The Earl Jackson Trophy awarded to the Englewood camp showing the _ best frequency improvement during the previous year was won by Woss Camp. LIGHTER SIDE Nothing makes a gal look better than four cocktails in- side a guy! ee ot Ot In good times it’s wine, women and song — in a recession it’s beer, pretzels and mamma. + + The week-ending logger threw a quarter towards the blind man’s cup. The coin missed and rolled along the pavement but the man with the dark glasses quickly recovered it. “But I thought you were blind,’”’ snorted the logger. “No, I’m not the regular blind man, sir,’’ he said, ‘I’m just taking his place while he’s at the movies!”’ + + »* Sawmill Sue says that the girls who throw themselves at men are usually taking pretty careful aim. + + # Pouce Coupe Pete told us that the last time he was in town he saw some plunging necklines which were so low they’d make a baby cry. LOCAL 1-80 IWA Financial Secretary Ed. Linder is shown with one of the discussion groups at Search ‘71. 1,000 DELEGATES ATTEND SEARCH ‘71 Six times as much work time in B.C. is lost through in- dustrial injury as through labour disputes, yet managment and labour don’t seem to be nearly as concerned with injury time losses as they are with time lost through strikes. James R. Chabot, B.C.’s new Minister of Labour, expressed the prevailing feeling of Search ’71, the Workmen’s Com- pensation Board of B.C.’s management -labour safety conference in his address to the closing luncheon June 11 in the Hotel Vancouver... ...-.» The two~ day which attracted 1,000 delegates from every segment of in- dustry in the province, was the largest conference involving both management and labour ever held in Canada. R. B. Carpenter, Com- missioner of the WCB, chaired the conference, and Cyril White, Chairman of the WCB, was chairman of the closing luncheon session. The recommendations brought in by the seven search groups were the result of a full afternoon of discussion and were markedly similar for each industry. All agreed that better education, improved conference, « communications and better on- the-job training could help to reduce accidents and injuries. The forestry group found that one of the major obstacles to improving communications between workman ~ and supervisor was the conflict caused by an announced policy and an apparent hidden policy. The pressures put on production by management, their report said, do not sup- port their stated philosophy that safety is of equal im- portance. On the question of establishing a climate of dialogue between management and labour, the forestry group proposed that they should meet — as individuals, rather than as representatives of labour and management. “Instead of establishing a safety program on a blame principle,” the report said, “‘it should be developed on a problem solving concept. We should use the concept of ‘what’ is at fault, rather than ‘who’ is at fault.” The establishment of a forum where all employees can be heard in matters affecting safety of equipment, work place, attitudes or lack of controls, was suggested by the transportation group. SOME OF THE 200 DELEGATES FROM NINE PARTICIPATING COMPANIES WHO ATTENDED THE 2ist ENGLEWOOD SAFETY COUNCIL AT CAMP © WOSS, VANCOUVER ISLAND, MAY 1.