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IWA ‘International Safety Council Conference, held in
Portland, Oregon, June 16-17, adopted seven safety recom-
mendations for submission to the International Executive

Board.

The two-day conference meet-
ing in the Masonic Temple was
attended by Safety delegates
from both the United States and
Canada, as well as International
officers and staff and fraternal
delegates.

Officers Elected

Elected by acclamation as
Safety Council Officers for one
year, were: District 1 Safety
Director, John T. Atkinson, el-
ected chairman; Robert Crim-
mins, District 13, elected vice-
chairman, and Brighton Erwin,
District 23, elected secretary.

J. E. Dicey, IWA 1st vice-presi-
dent, acting as temporary chair-
man of the conference, opened
the meeting with the suggestion
that the safety work be broad-
ened so that all Districts and Lo-
cal Unions could~be included. He
pointed out to the delegates that
the high frequency rate in the
woods industry was chargeable to
small operations where no safety
committees were functioning,

B.C. Praised

E. W. Kenney, Director of the
Department of Research and
Education in a report to the con-
ference delegates accused some
officials of the Union of giving
more lip service than actual serv-
ice to their safety program. This
charge did not include B.C.
where he felt a real job was being
accomplished in the field of acci-
dent prevention by District 1.

He urged all District Councils
to affiliate with the National
Safety Council, and Locals too, if
possible, stating that those con-
nected with the lumber industry
have the most at stake in getting
into the NSC.

John T. Atkinson

District 1 Safety Director John
T. Atkinson, in his address to the

the program instituted
conference was sound and with
effort a real job in safety would
result. In B.C. he continued, it
was found that by building a
safety program with care, it also
helped to build the rest of the
Union program as well.
Following are the recommenda-
tions adopted by the conference
and submitted to the Interna-
tional Executive Board for ap-
proval:

I. Reaflirm the policy recom-

gathering stated that he believed

mendations adopted by the

at the

Safety Council of the Interna-
tional, Oct. 1, 2, 1955, and later
approved by the International
Executive Board,

Elected International Council Chairman

2. That the Department of
Research and Education assist
the implementation of the pro-
gram adopted October, 1955,
through its educational confer-
ences.

3. (a) That the International
Officers actively co-ordinate the
District Counci! and regional
offices in support of the above
mentioned program.

(b) That the International
Officers through the facilities
of the Department of Research
and Education contact © the

heads of the necessary state
agencies requesting that they
(the state agencies) enter into
a program to co-ordinate a
joint safety plan between labor
and management. The co-ordin-
ation of such a plan to be based
on the program adopted by the
International Safety Council.

4. That the Department of
Research and Education be re-
quested to make a study of the
cost of a safety program at
the International level and sub-
mit to the next meeting of the
International Safety Council a
tentative budget which would
include a full-time Interna-
tional Safety Director. The In-
ternational Safety Council to
then draw up the necessary res-
olution and recommendation to
be presented to the next Inter-
national Convention (Septem-
ber, 1957).

5. That the Executive Board
of the International Union be
requested to set aside any pos-
sible funds available, in the
meantime, to assist in the im-
plementation of the Safety pro-
gram between this date and the
next International Convention.

6. That the International’s
official organ (the Woodwork-
er) devote as much space as
possible to publicity in the in-
terest of safety. Especially the
kind of information that is dir-
ected toward the education of
the individual worker on the
job so that all members of the
Union will become acquainted
with the safety program and
that progress will be made by
the International Safety Coun-
cil in their efforts to implement
the program throughout. all
District Councils and Local
Unions.

7. That the Department of
Research and Education be re-
quested to draft a uniform
safety clause for all contracts.
Such clause to be based on the
policy adopted by the Interna-
tional Safety Council.

Ontario Unions
Seek Changes

TORONTO (CPA)—Changes
in the present foundry inspec-
tion practices in Ontario have
been sought by two union
groups representing 20,000

foundry workers in 43 foun-
dries. The Foundry Councils of
the United Steelworkers and
the United Auto Workers made
requests for the changes in a

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OCCUPATION: Truck driver.

AGE: 43 years.

The truck driver was found dead beside the truck at a skidway
haying been struck by logs coming off the load when a cinch was
pulled after it had jammed.

recent brief to the Factory In-
spection Branch of the Ontario
Department of Labor.

The Councils ask
dry inspection be the responsi-
bility of a union-management
board, chaired by the chief Fac-
tory Inspector, E. H. Gilbert. At
present Mr. Gilbert is alone re-
sponsible for these inspections.
Other suggestions made by the
steel and auto workers included:
the submission ‘of safety regula-
tions to the Workmen's Compen-
sation Board for approval; stif-
fening of penalties so that em-
ployers would not find it “cheap-
er to ignore (safety) regulations
than make them effective”; and
the provision of more adequate

working and break period facili-
ties. :

Criticism was made of the La-
bor Department for its cancella~
tion of a proposed province-wide
foundry inspection conference of
union and management represen-
tatives, in favor of separate meet-
ings with labor and management.
The Department also came under
fire for reviving “one-sided” in-
spections, whereby only manage-
ment representatives are contact-
ed when an inspection ‘s being
made.

Give thought to safety—
and take care of yourself.

As there is some degree
activity, there are always sit
a hazardous condition and decide
the risk, take protective action, or

For example: when a turn Pr
almost instinctively size up the sit
in a secure position and that hee
difficulty of finding a more suital
of signalling further movements
chaser into the poor choice of ta
ditions. 1

To work safety, one must 'ex
ment depends upon the ability t
quences which in turn deperd

intelligence.
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A green man is unaware ot" h
fully experienced, so these met |
tions and making decisions. T)
killed. While there is no complete
more job training, better supen
venting accidents and a broade’
operative effort in safety will
ous situations and promote g:

A job should always be perfor
A worker should never knowing!
should never be permitted in }tis
dangers of the job. Safety sholily

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