May 3, 1951

B.C. LUMBER WORKER

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ety campaign at your operation.

* PENSATION BOARD

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CHRIS W. PRITCHARD, Commissioner E. V. ABLETT, Commissioner

years ber 30, 1950

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winners of the Annual Sai industry.

The industry is classified as Coast Logging, Interior Logging, Sawmill and Shingle Mills, Sash, Door and Veneer Plants, Pulp and Paper, and Paper Converting Plants. Each classification subdivided into groups based on the number of men employed and man-hours worked. 5

The winning firms in Coast

Logging in 1950 are as follows:

Group A—B,C. Forest Products (multiple operations) with a frequency of 86.92.

Group B—B.C, Forest Products Limited, Cowichan Division, with a frequency of 75.23.

Group C—H. R. MacMillan Ex- port Co. Ltd., Northwest Bay Division, with a frequency of 47.15,

(This firm also won last year's

award).

Interior

The record for Interior logging is as follows:

1947" 238.27 1948 222.05 1949 190.19 1950 .. 219.86

Awards were won by the fol-

lowing fitms. There were no

firms large enough to qualify for

Groups A, B and C:

Group D—Standard Tie and Tim- ber (Western) Ltd, Penny,

118.04.

Sawmill

Sawmill Awards In the sawmill-shingle mill group the following frequency rates appl; 1947 1948 1949

95.49

89.91

71.32 1950 65.67 Winning firms are as follows:

Group A—Canadian Western Lumber Co. Ltd., Fraser Mills, with a frequency rate of 17.74.

(This firm also won last year’s

award)

Group B—B.C. Forest Products Ltd., Cowichan Division, with a frequency rate of 13.72.

(This firm also won last year’s

award).

The awards are for the best accident performance based on the accident frequency rate,

“Coast Logging

B.C., with a frequency of |

IWA OPERATIONS TOP 1930 SAFETY AWARDS

‘THE Workmen’s Compensation Board has announced the 1950

fety Awards for the lumbering

In Coast Logging, as a whole, the average frequency rate for the past four years is as follows:

1947 ... 1948 1949 1950

Group D—B.C. Forest Products Limited, Vancouver Bay Divi- sion, with a frequency of 71.16.

roup E—Bell and Campbell Co.

Ltd, Harbledown Island (a

division of the Powell River

Co. Ltd.), with a frequency of

56.23.

Group F—Lee and Genberg, Butedale, B.C., with a fre- quency of 22.24.

Group G—Boyd Logging Com- pany, Minstrel Island.

Logging

; Group E—Westen Plywood Co. Ltd., Quesnel, B. C., with a fre-

| quency of 98.45.

Group F—Kootenay Spruce Mills Ltd., Cranbrook, B.C. (a divi- sion of Cranbrook Sash & Door Co. Ltd.), with a frequency of | 74.24.

Group G—H. Hagman Lumber Co., Houston, B.C. with a frequency of 28.68.

(This is for the period since November, 1948)

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Group C—Robertson & Hackett Sawmill Co. Ltd., with a fre-

_ quency rate of 18.85. (This firm was also a winner last year) |

| Group D—Lions Gate Lumber | To. Ltd, North Vancouver, | with a frequency rate of 23.45.

Group E—McKay & Flanagan Lumber Mills Ltd., New West- minster, with a frequency rate of 13.16.

Group F—Crow’s Nest Pass Coal

| awards:

Save Your Back

How to sidestep the common ways in which people injure their backs is to be found in five simple rules prepared after an analysis of a wide range of back injuries caused by improper methods of lifting. The rules are: Find out what you can lift, and lift no more, Lift with the back as straight as and as upright as possible. Use the powerful leg muscles to hoist the load. Avoid sudden strains. Start in low gear and build up speed gradually. Keep the load close. Don’t twist while lifting. Move your feet.

From Previous Column

Firms winning awards two years in succession qualify for special recognition by receiving Workmen’s Compensation Board Safety Pennants. These out- standing accomplishments in Accident Prevention are un- doubtedly due to the work of Joint Safety Committees, set up under Board Regulations, com- prising and supported by workers and management with equal en- thusiasm, -

Plywood, Etc.

The sash, door, and veneer plant performance is as follows:

1947 .. 59.76 1948 . 52.22 1949 41.16 1950 .. 38.85

The following firms won

Group B—H. R. MacMillan Ex- port Co. Ltd. (Vancouver Ply- wood Division), with a fre- quency of 15.46.

Group C—Fraser Mills Sash & Door Co. Ltd., with a frequency of 13.51.

Group D—Brooks Woodworking Co. Ltd., New Westminster, with a frequency of 16.44.

Groups E-F—Vernon Box & Pine Co. Ltd., Vernon, no accidents.

Group G—Western Sash & Door Co., Vancouver, no accidents since October, 1948,

The average frequency rates for the pulp and paper industry

Co. Ltd., Fernie, B.C., no acci- dents.

Group "G—Fraser. Box Co. Ltd., | Vancouver, B.C., no accidents since July, 1948. !

are as follows

30.86 28.64 18.32 17.11

Volume of business and in- creased representation at the quarterly meeting of the IWA District Safety Council April 20 caused ‘the delegates to de- mand that more time and bet- ter accommodation be provided for future meetings. This was hailed as proof of the rapidly growing interest in the Union’s safety program.

Reports heard from Local Union delegates indicated that Local Unions have with few ex-

Safety Council Extends Sessions

| ceptions established local Safety | Councils, and succeeded in stimu- | lating plant and camp safety activities.

Recommendations approved and subsequently endorsed by the District Council were:

That in future, provision be made whereby the quarterly meetings of the District Safety Council be held on Friday after-' noons preceding -the Scrat |

meeting of the District Council, in more commodious quarters.

That the Internationdl Execu- tive Board be requested to send the chairman of the International Safety Council (John T. Atkin- son) to the National Safety Coun- cil convention in Chicago next October.

That, finances permitting, the District send two delegates to the convention of the National Safety Council in October.

That consideration be given to nominations of the District Safety Council for any appointment of

‘Active In Safety Week

WM. CROY, Safety Director, Local 1-217, TWA.

LEO STADNYK, Safety Direc- tor, Local 1-357, TWA.

W. FRANKLIN, Chairman, Safety Committee, Local 1-367, IWA.

HARRY BEAMER, Safety Direc- —

full-time District Safety Director.

tor, Local 1-71, IWA.

and the engineer,

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