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Is this careless workman well trained in the safe

N the last issue of the Lumber Worker we showed the fallacy of assuming that a workman was “accident

prone.”

There is one more “Safety Excuse”: The shallow conclusion that the cause of an accident may be care-

lessness.

How often have we investigated accidents on the job and blamed “carelessness” because we did not care

to dig deeper?

How often after coming to this conclusion have we shrugged our shoulders helplessly and said to each

other —

“What do we do now?”

There are reasons and causes for this apparent

carelessness:

Let us understand this here and now:

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efficient handling of his job?

Does his foreman know how. to instruct and give orders that will not produce accidents?

is there an atmosphere of “Hurry up and to Hell

with it” in the department?

Are “short cuts’ encouraged by management?

Are safety and efficiency lost through too heavy pressure for production? -

Is one man doing the work of two?”

Our Safety Committees must ask all of these

questions.

If they are answered correcily, our “careless” work-

man will disappear.

Inspections & Investigations

INSPECTIONS AND INVESTIGATIONS Regulation 14 (a) of the General Accident Prevention

Regulation reads: Ty (a)

To make a thorough inspection not less than once

-a month of the entire plant or place of employment for the purpose of determining hazardous conditions, to check on unsafe practices and to receive complaints and recommendations with respect to these matters:”

Regulation 14 (b) reads:

“(b) To investigate promptly all serious accidents and

unsafe conditions or practices which may be re- ported to it. Such investigations shall include accidents which might have caused serious injury to a workman, whether or not such injury actually occurred.”

These two regulations spell out an important principle: that the Joint Accident Pre- vention Committee, both Un- ion and Management, partici- pate in the plant and camp inspections and in the investi- gation of accidents.

*“Management which is sin- cere in its efforts to reduce aceidents, utilizes worker knowledge and skill, realiz- ing that without full partici- pation in all aspects of the Safety Programme, active co-

With reference to the past year’s safety record in Local 1-424 IWA, Prince George, the Officers’ Re- port submitted to the re- cent Annual Membership meeting stated:

“Compared to the indus- try record, safety in the Northern Interior can be considered as favorable. It e that overall acci-

operation by the crew is diffi-

cult to achieve.

However, there is some management which is afraid of that full partnership in Ac- cident Prevention which Reg- ulation 14 envisages.

They prefer to use the “out” provided for them in Regulation No. 16: “When the employer maintains an accident - prevention depart- ment making regular plant and equipment inspections and investigations of acci-

dents, the Safety Committee shall not duplicate such serv- ices but shall be furnished with copies of the records and reports in order that they may make recommendations regarding inspection and in- vestigation facilities.”

Is unilateral investigation

and inspection sound practice?

Is self-appraisal and criti- cism, objective or construc- tive?

We think not.

Experience shows us that the ideal procedure involves several principles and prac- tices:

@ Include the man-on-the job in all phases of the Programme.

@ Always include someone from outside the depart- ment when making inspec- tions or investigations— those who work or super- vise there may, through familiarity, have unwill- ingly accepted a danger- ous set-up or a poor work practice.

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lems we have encountered in the promotion of safety, and especially the lack of safety meetings at the op- eration level, we feel that we were fortunate indeed that this Report does not mention an increase in in- juries and fatalities.

“We find that manage- ment has only paid lip serv- ice in the matter of safety. They are net giving the necessary leadership in the promotion of a good safety program at the operation level. It would appear that some companies are inter- ested only in objecting to

compensation claims which have resulted due to a lack of safety education. This type of approach will not alleviate accidents.

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“A renewed effort must be made in 1963 to revital- ize and reactivate the IWA = participation in the pro- gram. To accomplish this, your Officers are recom- |= mending that a number of Safety Seminars be held for the purpose of instructing and activating those people who will assist in carrying out the safety program in the industry.

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The Salmen Arm IWA Local Union has completed a full calendar year with- out a single fatality, it was announced this week by Financial Secretary Cliff Michael.

He said, “As far back as our records show, this is the first time that a com- plete fatality-free year has ever been achieved.” The last fatality in the Local Union occurred in August, 1961.

Local 1-417 officers are now planning a series of Safety Committee Work- shops in the various areas threughout the Local Union to be conducted by Region- al Safety Director, Bob Ross.

These areas include Mer- ritt, Kamlops, Monte Lake, Savona, Revelstoke and the North Thompson Valley The Local Union has an average membership of over 800.

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Judge: “I’m sorry, but I can’t issue a marriage license until you have a properly filled out form.”

Girl: “Listen, if my boy friend doesn’t care, what busi- ness is it of yours?”

CRUNCH, CRUNCH — WHO CAN SLEEP?

To keep alert while driving on long trips, you might try eating peanut brittle. That’s the advice of Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, physiology professor emeritus of the University of Illinois.

Says Dr. Ivy, “The sound of chewing peanut brittle keeps you awake; the sugar provides quick energy; and the oral searching for one nut after another is occupational therapy. I don’t know if the prescription would work for everyone,

but it worked for me.”

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Briefly Noted

Tires and Chains

Snow tires are okay for light snows, but aren’t adequate for icy-weather driving. Tire chains, preferably reinforced chains, each link of which has a project- ing cleat to bite into the ice, are recommended. These give you three to four times as much start- ing and stopping ability in snow and ice as ordinary tires do.

Cancer Protection

Some dock werkers in Austra- lia’s tough North Queensland ports wear lipstick to work. Doc- tors advised the use of lipstick for protection against chronic sunburn, a cause of lip cancer.

What Is Safety?

When Police Officer Don Sim- onson posed the question “What is Safety?” to Wausau, Wisconsin, school children, a_ five-year-old boy summed it up neatly—“Safe- ty’s so you don’t get hurt!”

A woman approached the pearly gates and spoke to Saint Peter: “Do you know if my husband is here? His name is Jones.”

“lady, we have lots of them here, you'll have to be more specific.”

“Joe Jones.”

“Lots of those too, you'll have to have more specifica- tions.”

“Well, when he died he said that if I was ever untrue to him, he’d turn over in his grave.”

“Oh, you mean ‘Pinwheel’ Jones.”

The following notice ap- peared on the bulletin board of a local office:

“Supervisors who have no secretaries of their own may take advantage of the girls in the stenographic pool.”