(and tssue THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER SOOM nh eas W.CB. ACCIDENT ; STATISTICS W.C.B. ACCIDENT STATISTICS LOGGING Year Total Accidents Fatals Frequency US (22 eee 3,897 56 89.68 iO) ce sak Se 3,081 46 89.97 iho) Soe ee 3,509 67 90.72 LSU). So aaa 3,763 60 82.94 IY OIL eee 3,314 51 86.52 AO) | See 3,775 55 *83.00 SAWMILLS 9 3,060 17 44.13 INES 0) 2a 2,795 12 42.91 50) es 2,828 8 43.79 TN) ae 2,770 9 38.48 b S01 SSS 2,069 6 42.05 OG) Se Seas 2,729 6 *40.00 PLYWOOD, SASH AND DOOR IMS ae 331 0 16.05 SS) 2 ea 259 0 16.05 UGH) ee 287 2 18.67 , IISYO(0). 5 Zoek sts Sind aa 264 0 17.53 ; (oil 4 ee 270 0 18.08 ee 302 0 *19.00 4 SHINGLE MILLS ii = eae 175 0 41.80 R LEY T} SS a ae 151 0 46.71 “LCN ) Silla 148 2 43.23 . MAO) Sea aeae 143 0 46.54 (i Sa ee 162 0 41.27 xf O92 < Sh eae 161 1 *41.00 *WCB Projection. EXPLANATION OF FREQUENCY RATE Rate is arrived at by taking the number of accidents times 1,000,000, divided by man hours worked. e.g. Frequency rate 100 means 1 out of 5 injured each year. Frequency rate of 50 means 1 out of 10 injured each year. ae WYMAN TRINEER Local 1-357 ANC ‘Delegates officers attended the one- day IWA Regional Safety : Conference, February 23, in Vancouver, to hammer out recommendations in policy of the Union’s Safety Pro- = gram which will be sub- mitted to the Regional Ex- ecutive Board for approval. = Conference was Regional Secretary-Treasurer, Fred Fieber who commended the = delegates for their work in safety. Safety Director made his Report to the delegates which is printed elsewhere on this page. over to the individual Local Safety reports which indi- -cated that while there had been a general improve- ment in safety, there were still too many fatalities, especially on the Coast. MN _ They Gave Local Safety Reports At Conference Map Out Program Changes Thirty-five delegates and The guest speaker at the With regar atone logging fatals, I am happy to say to you that a real and energetic effort in the logging camps in the last few months of 1962 succeeded in arresting the fatal trend in the woods. We have surely learned here that an all-out program can stop accidents. The tragedy is that fifty-five loggers had to die before we acted. The one-sided Safety Pro- grams in certain large opera- tions, we intend to fight with _ all the resources at our com- mand. Departmental pro- grams through “Safety Cap- tains” or ‘Safety Clubs” which are designed to by- pass the Joint Safety Commit- tees must be eliminated. Your Regional Safety Council Ex- ecutive is proposing certain changes to our Regional Policy Statement which should help to straighten out this abuse. Negotiations with the com- panies by Local Unions to secure agreement on worker participation in WCB inspec- tion tours have .met with partial success. It may be necessary to conduct these negotiations on a Regional level with the various man- agement associations. The physical impossibility of adequate coverage of ap- proximately five hundred op- erations in the Regional Council on an individual basis led your Safety Director to propose to the Local Unions, Safety and Compensation Bob Ross, the Regional The morning was given ROSS INGLIS Local 1-424 Safety Director Reports Vast Improvement A vast improvement in safety in the logging camps was noted by Regional Safety Director Bob Ross, in his Report to the thirty-five delegates attending the one-day Regional Safety Conference February 23, in the Stry Hall, Vancouver. The following is his Report to the Conference: “When we met last in September, there were two main issues reported to you: An alarming rate of fatalities in the logging section of our industry and the fact that in many operations, management appeared to be substituting a uni- lateral approach to the Safety Program for the co-operative idea which had been so successful in the past. ; Workshops on an area or Local basis, where geography permits. One such has been held in the Haney Local and proved to be successful. Sev- eral more are projected. It is to be hoped that this program will accomplish several bene- ficial results: 1. More frequent safety edu- cation in individual opera- tions where the need is urgent. 2. More frequent contact with interested members on a collective operation basis. 3. Education on compensation problems at the job level in order that claims may be properly handled before the Local Union Business Agent is forced to deal with a rejected claim. 4. Revitalization of Local Safety Councils in those Local Unions where they are not now active. It is very apparent that throughout the Regional Council, there has been a marked increase in activity and interest in accident pre- vention at all levels of our organization. I take this op- portunity to commend those of our people who have made this improvement possible. We all of us know that tragedy in the woods and mills is avoidable. Let us work together in the forth- coming year to that end.” Respectfully submitted, R. C. ROSS, Safety Director. OFFICERS OF THE REGIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL from left Bob Ross, Regional Safety Director; Martha Goddard, Secretary; Gil Ingram, Chairman; Ross Davis, 1st Vice-Chair- 4