OCTOBER, 1970

THE WESTERN. CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

Organized labour and the
Workmen’s Compensation
Board of British Columbia are
entering a “new day of co-
operation” toward the mutual
goal of industrial safety, says
John Hachey, Chairman of the
B.C. Federation of Labour’s
Compensation, Health and
Safety Committee, and 1st
Vice-President of Local 1-357,
New Westminster.

Speaking at a two-day ac-
cident prevention seminar in
Penticton, sponsored jointly by
the WCB and the B.C.
Federation of Labour, Mr.
Hachey said, ‘‘Never before, in
the history of B.C., have we
had a joint accident prevention
seminar, between labour
delegates and the Workmen’s
Compensation Board, on this
scale. Never before have we
got together in these numbers
to talk over our mutual con-
cerns and our mutual
problems.”

The seminar was based on
the theme ‘*Accident
Prevention: By Emotion or
Reason.’’ Keynote speakers for
the seminar were Frank Chafe,
Secretary of the National
Health and Safety Committee,
Canadian Labour Congress
and R. B. Carpenter, WCB
Commissioner. Mr. Hachey
and J. M. C. Clarke, Director of
the WCB Safety Research and
Education Department were
co-chairmen for the seminar.

More than 100 delegates
gathered on the evening of
September 28 to watch a

special safety film  presen-
tation. Panel members for
workshop discussions included
Mr. Carpenter; J.-P. Berry,
WCB Executive Officer eH
Board Counsel; Ray Haynes,
Secretary-Treasurer, B.C.
Federation of Labour; Andy
Smith, Regional Safety
Director, IWA; James D,
Paton, Director, WCB Ac-
cident Prevention Inspection
Department and i:
“Paddy’' Neale, Seeretary-
Treasurer, Vancouver and
District Labour Council.

Several speakers at the
seminar agreed on the need for
placing a higher priority on
safety

Cyril White, Q.C., WCB
Chairman noted that...

angry and upset about en-
vironmental pollution
Maybe it’s time we got just as
concerned about industrial
accidents. Maybe it’s time we
stopped taking them for
granted, as a necessary evil, a
blight more than compensated
for by production, progress,
and economic wealth. Maybe
it’s time we started to think of
the industrial accident as.a
serious obstacle to quality
living, and something that we
don’t have to accept as part of
the deal.”

Ray Haynes stated that the
priority to safety and accident
prevention ‘‘should be much
closer to the top’’ and Bill
Moore, of the W. D. Moore
Logging Co. felt that
management and union should
both direct their energies
toward ‘‘a betterment of safe
production.”

At the seminar Mr. Hachey
announced a future co-
operative safety conference
which will include
management as well as labour
and the Board. This joint
safety conference is planne
for next June 10 and 11, in
Vancouver. “‘That week will
tell whether we really have
entered a new day of real co-
operation and initiative, or
whether it has all just been
talk,” said Mr. Hachey.

‘people have been getting

MORE THAN 200 DELEGATES attended the Was seminar co- a a i the WCB and

the B.C. Federation of Labour.

PRGA Hd

WCB CHAIRMAN CYRIL WHITE, Q.C., addresses delegates
to the joint accident prevention seminar in Penticton
September 28 and 29. Seated to the right of the podium is J.
M. C. Clarke, Director of the WCB Safety Research and
Education Department and co-chairman of the seminar.

LIGHTER SIDE

-Sawmill Sue says her girl
friend is really boy crazy —
she’s been on more laps than
a napkin!

* Ok

Sign in a machine shop:
“Warning to girls... if your
sweater is too large for you,
look out for the machines. If
you are too large for the
sweater, look out for the
machinists.”

*& * &

‘Doc,” said the grizzled old
mountaineer, leading a youth
into his office, “I want vou to
fix up my son-in-law, I shot
him in the leg yesterday and
lamed him a bit.”

“Shame on you, shoo
your own rsonin aes eolded
the docto

“Wal, Doc,” said the moun-
taineer, “he wasn’t my son-in-
law when I shot him.”

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WCB’‘s NEW PROJECT SAFETY — Mobile Training Unit
shovid beon the read by October. This mobile classroom will

province.

carry accident prevention lectures, films and demon-

strations to employers and orton in all areas of the