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FILE NAME: National Safety Council (NSC) DATE: 1960 July DOC#: NSC036 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: NSC - National Safety News - Annual Fire Protection Issue w AJgy, i ( LI CS a': -* - : ms causj hazard levatoti es, bsj md cot urn a t i ye par jsive fa ater sui! amoun 'b hit! aces or othe at, rapi pressur a a fiori are oftfl mg age st doti imetim a to s jy agi first e: stream] lue of provide! ; coaim; :les. Tfl vhen a formeTM, voidable it be a b |i as it and als] dusty ii hazard!! ig dr t. ootj r beam i bere dirsi h Issue N ew Index of yvrnencan Sfo n d o rd s Xhe i960 Price List and Index nj American Standards, published hv the American Standards Associa tion. lists nearly 1,900 American Standards that have been approved to date. T ie fields covered include automotive chemical, civil engi neering and construction, drawings, ivmbds. Abrviations, electrical eni'ineering, metallurgy, materials handling, mechanical engineering, mining, ni clear, photography and motion pictures, paper, petroleum, rubber, tex lie, wood, safety, gas ap pliances, and some consumer goods. Also lis ed are the international standards recommendations of the International Organization for Standardization and the Interna tional Electrotechnical Commission. :: The index may be obtained, with out charge by writing to the Amer ican Stand trds Association, 10 East 40th Streep New York 16. Australia) is Hit Mower Mishaps From Both Sides "Down under" in the Melbourne, Australia, area they're hitting power mower ac ridents from both sides, The Ne vcastle Steel Works, de signing sat ity into their product, have installed i diaphragmatic snorkel box which breathes air in from near handle-gri; ) height through a tube, leading to the mower motor. This keeps dirt and debris from clogging the mech s.nism, elim inating one 7more reat on for fumbling fingers to reach .nto the dangerous blade area. And, if mower mishaps do occur, local host itals have special wards for week-e nd mower casualties. Severs Five Toes Fro ti Foot In a crystal-clear news item recently, a Rockford, 111., newspaper unintentio tally and graphically pre seated the dangers involved in the usc of p( wer mowers. The newsP&per iter i. said: "Arthu: ' Welch, 42, 2817 Coletuan Ave. , lost all five toes of his right foo; Tuesday morning when a lawn i tower he was operating backed c nto the foot and sliced through fcis shoe." There's not much more you can say. 1 N jfllfe ^ Q^0r>Q! 'jjxaag Ay, -Safety News, July, 1960 Occupational Disease--! 860 The workers in stone and marble, in our cities are subject to lung dis eases by inhaling dust. Their av erage age is 38 years and they are very frequently sick. We have known several who had to quit the business in New York on account of threat ened consumption, who were other wise of powerful frames and na turally robust. Those who grind the knives and forks with which we eat our food are very short-lived. The dust which is inhaled by the lungs soon coats them with stone. Wet grinding, such as that of saws, axes, knives, is not so unhealthy, but the dry polishing of every tool greatly shortens the lives of those engaged at the busi ness. An exhaust fan to draw off the dry dust should be applied to every emery wheel in factories un der a penalty, and all those engaged in the operations should never per mit a razor to be drawn across the upper lip .--S cientific Am erican, March 1860. (Formerly Oxy-Swig) W HEN O X Y G E N IS N E E D E D ... EVERY SECOND COUNTS Portable medical oxygen is a fast-growing new concept in the field of oxygen therapy. Its life-sustaining application in heart attacks, shock, asphyxia, drowning . .. its vital breathing assist in respiratory illnesses, asthma, fainting --now demonstrates the importance of an immediately available supply of medical oxygen. In the business office and at the p lan t. . . in the physician's office and in every police car . . . in the home and on the train . . , wherever people work . . . wherever they play . . . on whatever they travel. . . and wherever they live, ZvpIPXT'I7! . 0 h a s earned a permanent position for whenever and wherever an emergency arises. E x c lu s iv e M e tro x V a i v e : Precision engineered M E T R 0 3 C valve unit combines 72 separately designed parts into a single assembly and does away with old-fashioned multi-dial units. Tested in excess of 10,000 times. Its precise-tolerances established to insure a dependable, constant flow of emergency oxygen at a regulated rate. WWJSk 8S^pi88B0 H jip p ssi Ja^^aw LiJam m J Jew M E T R O X , I3STO . 1 4 4 i itley A venu e, Pasadena,, C a lifo rn ia 4 3 3 5 G o v e rn o r Print-z Boulevard* W ilm in gto n, D elaw are Circle If-em No. 58---Reader Service Card 87