iting hazardous conditions.

oduction
ing work stoppages.

sts
ing waste of material and
wipment.

fod) labour:
t relations

ing the opportunity of work-
her in a common interest.

sother working

ging better job methods
vued housekeeping.

ier personal life

ug the threat of injury and
pacturity;

{

ie stability, maturity and
e of satisfaction.

ff the safety team
Hr wholehearted support

c

jensation Board —

“Sceretary

1ARD, Commissioner

nmissioner

B.C. LUMBER WORKER.

Caycuse,
Nitinat
Praised

Caycuse and Nitinat camps
of the British Columbia Forest
Products Ltd. celebrated their
winning of the Workmen's
Compensation Board’s Meritor-
ious Award for Safety in
Group “B” Logging for 1953,
by holding parties in the camps
for the loggers, their wives
and families.

' This is the fourth consecutive
award which the Cowichan Log-
ging Division has won. Their
accident frequency for the year
was 25.67 as compared to a group
average of 72.

Mr. Arthur Francis, Chief In-
spector of the WCB, presented
the award at Caycuse to Mr.
Harry Hobson, Manager of the
Renfrew and Cowichan Logging
Divisions.

At Nitinat, where “the party
was held the following evening,
attended by Ernie Boulet, Busi-
ness Agent of Local 1-80, IWA,
and Jim Millmore, the Local's
Safety Director; Mr. Scotty Al-
lison, Safety Director ‘of the
BCLMA, congratulated the crew
on their fine showing and urged
them to keep up the good work.

Be: Sit

CAYCUSE CAMP of the British
sation Board’

Columbia

eritorious Award for Safety in Group “B” Logging for 1953.

Forest Products Ltd., receiving the Workmen’s Compen-

From left to right,

Ken: Hallberg, Superintendent of Caycuse; George Smythe, 2nd Vice-President of Local 1-80,.IWA,
and Caycuse Safety Committee’ Chairman; Mr..Harry Hobson; Mr. Arthur Francis, Chief Inspector

for the WCB; Mr. H. G. Munro,

B.C.F.P. President.

INTERIOR

By John T. Atkinson

For the first time since the
IWA has been organized in
the Interior of B.C., a definite
start has been made on a pro-
gram of industrial safety by
Local 1-424,

The
and the fear

employers’ apprehension
of union activities
rd-is slowly being
ome. The cost of the in-
od compensation assess-
ments, because of the black ree-
ord and the comparison of pro-
<luction costs between the Coast
and the Interior is such that they
have, of nece: martened up
to the fact that safety is good

siness, and the safety program
sed by the Union is be-
ing reecived with mixed feelings
of relief and anticipation.

Safety Director

Several meetings have been
| held with the executive of the
Association, and they have an-
nounced their intention of hiring
|x full-time safety director to
promote and to further the prog-
of the plan, The Union
hopes that their selection and
appointment will be a good one

for the task is of such propor-

PROGRAM STARTS

tions that only
cooperation will insure its suc-
cess.

Already two Safety Broadcasts
have been undertaken by Local
1-424, over radio station CKPG,
on which the Union’s policy aims
and objectives were elaborated
upon. Much public comment has
been expressed, at the Union's
initiative in’ bringing safety to
Prince George and will no doubt
bring better public relations and
good-will.

Mills Visited

Mass meetings have been held
in a number of the largest saw
mill operations ineludin;
Spruce Ltd., Penny, B.C.
Creek Samills, “Taber

Eagle Lake Sawmill,
Upper Fraser Sawmills, Upper
Fraser; Sinclair s, Sincl

Mills; Prince George Plane
Prince George; Church’s Saw-
mills, Willow River; B.C. Spruce,
Prince George; Trick Sawmills,
Aleza Lake.

Management attended these
meetings and heard from ‘the
Union Safety Director the safety
program and the positive side of
accident prevention. The mass
turnout at these meetings
both workers and superv’

teamwork and |

indicates the great need for
guidance and direction and there
| willingness to start immediately.

An important development
has also en place in the
matter of t Aid. Sixt

nine (69) students are regi
tered and are taking a course
in industrial first-aid in Prince
George with smaller cla in
both Giscome and Vanderhoof.
These classes are conducted by
the instructars of the Forestry.
First Aid Committee and the
training of this large group
will no doubt add considerable
emphasis to the safety effort.

This interest in First Aid to
injured workmen will bring
about prompt and adequate
treatment of injuric
the standards of Fi
line with the Coastal areas.

Safety Committee
Joint Safety Committees will

proper function. Lectures and
instructions on the hazards of
the’ type: of work and methods
dealing with them will be given.

A Local Safety Council will
be organized to pool information
and to coordinate the efforts of

the many committees and to plan
and promote further safety.

Midway
Men

Improve

Proof that the better co-
operation now: developed by
labor and management behind
a safety program in the South-
ern Interior can produce bet-
ter” resul is found in the
improved safety record of the
Boundary Sawmills .Ltd., Mid-
way. 3
Safety men in the operation
claim that their present safety
record deserves praise because
of the cont with conditions
several years ago.

Latest report from the IWA
Regional: Office, Kelowna, states
that the following statistics are
displayed on the plant’s safety
record board.

be set up‘in ever ion Ba
requited) by W.G.B. regulation | yell = ee
and dircetion given as to their| 7, ee oe eee

Lumber Y.
Car Loading ....
Power House and
Garage
Log Yard and
Construction ... . 10 days
(The Planer reached an all-
time high of 817 days before an
accident requiring time-loss bene-
fit occured on May 4.)

.252 days

-506 days

Industrial fatalities in Can-
ada for the year 1953, as re-
ported by the Labor Gazette,
were 1,345, a decrease of 104
from 1952, with industrial
injuries for the same period
increasing from 476,313 to

480,361.
The accidents recorded are
those which involved persons

gainfully employed and which
occurred during the course of, or
arose out of, their employment.
Also included are deaths from
industrial diseases as reported
by the provincial Workmen’s
Compensation Boards,

For those industries not eover-
ed by workmen’s compensation

Fatalities Decrease

information. It is possible, there-
fore, that coverage in such indus-
tries as agriculture, fishing and
trapping and certain of the ser-
vice groups is not as complete
as in those industries covered by
workmen’s compensation legisla-
tion.

An analysis of causes of the
years fatalities shows that 386
were the result of being “struck
by tools, machinery, moving ve-
hicles and other objects.” With-
in this group the largest number
of deaths were caused by falling
trees and limbs (63), by automo-
biles and trucks (50), landslides

and cave-ins (29), and objects

falling or flying in mines’ or

legislation, newspaper reports

are the Gazette’s only source of

quarries (28).