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Industrial Safety sineau. mnr owcn. fWii an Ait Unusual Accident CELLULOID COLLARS DANGEROUS "l4it math ta accident was sock Bare senna than it might have been, ovng to the fact that the operator von a collar, vhich caagbt foe, and horned him severely about the neck and head CHhdofd consists chiefly of a dned aotatwo of gnu cotton and oil* and is of an extremely combustible nataxe, seme nmnombostible chesneal u added to it. Hnmeroaa acddeata have been ceased by celluloid articles takingfire, and the see of these articles shonld be avoided, not only where there is danger from open flames or sparks, bat also in places where heat is excessive " TWENTY MEN 4 4- _ < WERE INJURED LAST MONTH AT THIS WORKS FROM THIS CAUSE LOCKJAW IS CAUSED BY NAIL WOUNDS IT MAY BE YOUR TURN NEXT THESEDO YOUR PART TO STOP ACCIDENTS. Fig 1-10 --Two examples of early safety posters 16 tional Safety Council and the trade associa tions representing many small companies Certain aspects of the small-company or plant problem can be stated with assurance 1 The small establishment cannot employ specialized safety personnel to deal with the accident problem 2 The financial position of many small con cerns makes it difficult to convince them that spending the money necessary for proper equipment, layout, guarding, and other elements is important 3 Managers of small operations are harried by a host of problems in all fields Seldom can they find time for proper study of acci dents and their causes 4 In small units, statistical measures of per formance are unreliable, so that it is diffi cult to produce clear-cut evidence as to the effectiveness of accident prevention work In other words, a small operation may have, by luck, a good or bad accident record over a few years, whether or not its safety program is sound These are obstacles to progress, real and senous ones They are not, of course, ex cuses for failure to try to prevent accidents The association approach offers some real hope for improvement Meanwhile, many smaller companies and plants have demonstrated over a large number of years that they can carry on effective safety programs Labor-management cooperation At top levels, and in some cases at the grass roots, progress has been made in enlisting the support of organized labor in management's campaign to reduce accident losses In 1949, the National Safety Council issued a policy statement declaring the common in terest of labor and management in accident prevention Even before this date, represen tatives of leading labor organizations served as members of the Council's governing boards At a number of National Safety Congresses, reports were made by labor and management men on specific examples of local and com panywide cooperation between unions and corporations In 1955, a Labor Division and