THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER ee a Ess ESPECIALLY LOGGERS: NEW FIRST AID COURSE. COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE All IWA members, espe- cially loggers, should avail themselves of the one-day “crash” course on SUSI EN First Aid. Effective July 1 of this year, under a new Workers’ .Com- pensation Board Regulation, where five or more men are ‘working 20 minutes or more surface travel time from their employer’s main first aid station, at least one in the group must have a Survival First Aid certificate. The WCB regulation applies to the ‘thigh hazard’’ in- dustries, such as forestry, con- struction and transportation, 7 LOCAL 1-367 HOLDING - SEMINAR aa 1-367 IWA, Haney, is sponsoring a Safety Seminar for all Safety Committees in the Local *Union’s logging operations April 24, at the Park Hotel, 2509 Pauline, Abbots- ford. The Safety Committees at B.C. Forest Products, Boston Bar, and Q.C. Timber, are also invited. The one-day conference will commence at 9:30 a.m. and continue to approximately 4:30 “p.m. ; ’ Instructors will be Regional Safety Director Max Salter and Regional Education Director Frank Wall. The course will cover the new Regional Safety Policy and Committee Mem- bers Guide and other related matters. The Local has gone to a con- siderable amount of expense and effort to ensure the success of the Seminar. Committee Members can help by notifying the Local officers if they intend to participate in this wor- thwhile conference. “OFF ON RIGHT FOOT” The new minister of labour sa Ontario, Dr. Bette Stephen- t president of the i ian Medical Association, is starting off on the right foot so far as labour is concerned. In her first TV address she urged employees to refuse to work in unsafe conditions and to report such conditions to their union shop stewards. The unions, she stated, should then ie orsnl “nest agro’ ‘Department media romp! Setion would be dele, where workers are commonly found in operations far from medical help. The courses are also open to workers from other industries. Survival First Aid is basic instruction in life-support techniques for victims of common industrial accidents. It aims to give an injured person the best chance of surviving until skilled medical help arrives. Survival First Aid Courses have been in operation since May, 1975. More than 2,000 workers have already. taken the course and received their certification. The certificates are valid for four years. Courses are run through the employers’ facilities where there are many workers to be trained, or organized inde- pendently where individual workers register for the course. The course teaches manage- ment of emergencies which involve stopped breathing, heavy bleeding, unconscious- ness and chest injuries. Infor- mation on when and where courses are available can be obtained from any Workers’ Compensation Board office. PRINCE GEORGE HOSTING JUNE SAFETY MEETING The IWA Regional Safety & Health Conference will meet June 4-5 in Prince George. The Conference will be held at the Yellow Head Motel, 1445 West Central at 15th. Delegates from all IWA Local Unions are expected to attend this important safety meeting where the progress of the Union’s Safety Programme will be discussed. Included on the agenda will be experts who will lecture.on matters related to the forest industry field. CAR LEGISLATION ONTARIO FIRST PROVINCE TO PASS SEAT BELT LAW Although Nova Scotia has unproclaimed seatbelt legisla- tion on the books, Ontario has become the first province to actually require the use of belts. Bill 27, amending the High- way Traffic Act is simple and straightforward. In essence, it says that if a car is equipped, or was equipped at time of manufacture, with seat belts and / or shoulder harness, then the assembly must be used, by the driver at all times, and by such passengers who are seated in spaces also so equipped. It says the belt assembly must a securely fastened aad properly adjusted. Exceptions are allowed for people driving in reverse, those alighting from delivery trucks at frequent intervals, as long as speed does not exceed 25 mph and only while such deliveries or pick-ups are in progress (not on the way to the delivery route), and for people holding a medical certificate Po that they cannot wear ts. Provision is made for subse- quent regulations relating to child seating and restraint systems, and for further exemptions as a need arises. A driver is responsible for ensuring that all passengers under 16 are buckled in. Adult passengers, or those in taxi- cabs are not the driver’s responsibility. Safety belts do not have to be installed in vehicles that were not so equipped at time- of manufacture; if they have been removed, they must be reinstalled. According to the Act, if belts are in the car but are not working, it is necessary to have them repaired. The Canada Safety Council wholeheartedly supports this legislation enacted by the On- tario Government. It is such that the Council has been striv- ing for a number of years; first it was to have vehicles equip- ped, then education to the public for wearing, and, finally, when it was realized that education alone was insuf- ficient, required use of belt systems. Council representa- tives presented a brief to Ontario (and at other times to all other provincial govern- ments) in March 1973. Ontario is changing some speed limits at the same time. LOCAL 1-417 President Sonny Alexandre opening the Local’s 3rd Annual. Safety Conference January 17, in Kamloops. Other officers from left are Ted MacDonald, Chairman of the Safety ‘resolutions Committee, Lary Viers, Secretary of the Resolutions Committee, and Jack Kerssens, Local Union Safety Director. - REGISTRATION COMMITTEE from left, Bill Rosen, Vic Fast, Gary Rustin. DELEGATES in session. ON THE LIGHTER SIDE Chokerman Charlie says that a couple of new females driv- ing truck in camp are so tough they could knit barbed wire with two crowbars!. * *% % Logger’s wife (to inebriated husband): ‘‘Come on Olie, let’s go to bed.”’ Logger: ‘‘Might as well — I’ll catch hell when I get home anyway!”’ *% % * Sam, the machinery sales- man, says that being an early riser is simply mind over mattress! * % % Chokerman Charlie says his wife is the salt of the earth — he’s been trying to shake men for years. First faller: “My dad died from drinking shellac.” Second faller: “Well, any- way, he had a very nice finish.” * % * Sawmill Sue says that in the old days a woman would go to a doctor to See if she could have any children — now she goes to the landlord. * % AG Sign in an Interior hotel: Please do not smoke in bed; the ashes that fall to the floor may be your own! * * * Sawmill Sue says her boy- friend isn’t interested in por- nography — she says he doesn’t even own a porno- graph!