THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER pyc SAFETY COMMITTEE’S ACTION BRINGS IMPROVED CONDITIONS ~ - Grande Prairie, in the far northwest of the Edmonton Local 1-207 IWA, is a bustling town of airplanes, freight trucks, sawmills and a plywood plant in the Canfor group operating under the banner of North Canadian Plywood. } This plant was recently investigated by Regional Safety Director Max Salter following the fatality of a member of the crew. The Safety Committee in the operation insisted that details of the fatality warranted an inquest which was finally held. Good work by the Committee and paetiate recom- mendations from the inquest jury led to the application of a number of accident prevention regulations at the operation. The fatality occurred at a large steel bin where dust from plywood sandings was collected. A young clean-up worker entered the bin without a safety line and was smothered to death. ‘Following the -recom- mendatians advanced by the Safety Committee to the inquest jury, the bin is now sealed with a security lock and well marked with a “Restricted Area’’ sign. A number of additional safety suggestions to improve the working areas of the plant have also been put in force after the Safety Committee and Max Salter made an ex- tensive ‘safety tour of the operation. Salter stated after the tour that the active interest the Safety Committee were displaying should make the operation a. safer and better place to work in. LOCAL 1-85’S SAFETY COUNCIL CELEBRATES 1ST YEAR Local 1-85 IWA Port Alberni, wound up the first year’s operation of their Safety Council with the holding of their First Annual Safety Council Conference during the latter part of April, in the IWA Hall in Port Alberni. A great deal of planning went into the full scale conference which embodied a varied educational seminar. ‘The first order of business was the election of new of- ficers. Elected were Chairman Len Kreklau, Secretary O.F. Bray, First Vice-Chairman Jim McNamee, Second Vice- Chairman E. Mani, and Safety Director Tom McCrae, who prepared the agenda and guided the conference during the three-day programme. Objectives of the Regional Safety Programme _ were detailed by Regional Safety Director Max Salter and WCB Commissioner George Kowbel enunciated guidelines of amendments to the regulations and the Act in the ad- ministration of compensation benefits. J. Murray Clarke, who heads the WCB Education Programme, discussed ac- cident investigation processes. Frank Mottishaw, Superin- tendent of First Aid, gave a preview of the new regulations covering First Aid Attendants and also provided the outlines for the course on primary, or survival, First Aid. Lieutenant E. Russell of the Fire Marshal Department introduced the conference to a short course on fire prevention and suppression measures and gave points on evacuation procedures. Safety Directors Verna Ledger of Local 1-357 and Jack Kerssens from Local 1-417 were interested spectators of the new conference format. DELEGATES attending the Ist Annual Safety Conference of Local 1-85 {WA, in Port n J. MURRAY CLARKE, WCB Director of Education Benarprarpas and Deerge Kowbel, WCB Commissioner, took ee Lope. Fis 5, (CaN cai FRANK MOTTISHAW, Superintendent of First Aid for the WCB, is shown discussing new First Aid Regulations. HIGHLY ACTIVE Safety Committee at the North Canadian Plywood plant in Grande Prairie. From left, front row, Committee Chairman Ken Kosik, Margret Toews, Tony Doll. Back row, left, Maurice Ross, lvan Romkes, Ron Clark. IWA PLANT CHAIRMAN at Canfor’s North Canadian Plywood plant, Joe Pirker “(right) points to sign Safety Committee pressed for following death of a young worker killed in the dust bin. Showing the lock installed on the bin door is J. Volkinburg, one of the Company officials. EP SAFETY COUNCIL officers of Local 1-85 I|WA, Port Alberni. From left, Len Kreklau, Chairman; O.F. Bray, Secretary; Jim McNamee, Ist Vice-Chairman; E. Mani, 2nd Vice- Chairman; Tom McCrae, Local Safety Director. line ON THE LIGHTER SIDE ‘The Prince Rupert preacher. was worried about one of the local gals whose reputation was not too savory. Meeting her on the street one Saturday afternoon he stopped’ her and said, ‘‘Sadie, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about you lately. As a matter of fact, I prayed for you last night for three hours.”’ “Gee,” said Sadie, ‘you didn’t need to do that. If you had called me I would have come right over!” Kamloops Katie comments that men often make passes at girls who drain glasses. A guy with money to burn, says Sawmill Sue, has the best chance of making a perfect match. } | ] | J An egotist, according to Sam the machinery salesman, is a guy who suffers from I strain. A female flunkey in a Fraser Valley logging camp opines that women who wear the pants often discover that other women are wearing the mink. Sawmill Sue says that girls who look good in the best places usually get taken there. Kamloops Katie’s advice to girls as to what to give a man who has everything ... en- couragement! The modern Cinderella is a gal who — at the stroke of midnight — turns into a motel.