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FILE NAME: National Safety Council (NSC) DATE: 1941 May DOC#: NSC012 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: NSC National Safety News -1 Page - Emergency Standards for Toxic Substances THESE Z LABELS MEAN PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY approved ey UNDERWRITERS L A B OR A T ORI E S INC* one S A F E -L IN E W IR E R O PE C LA M PS m ean you will p ro te ct your e m p lo y e e s1 lives and sav e m oney by elim in a tin g co stly d e la y s d u e to the b itin g action of old sty le clam ps, c a u sin g th e w ire ro p e to b re a k far below its a c tu a l stren g th . In su re a g a in s t lo ss of e q u ip m ent by STA N D A R D IZIN G on . S A F E -L IN E today. M a d e to fit a ll right lay ropes. WILL HOT FOUL ELIMINATE SPLICING OUTPULL ANY ROPE S IZ E S ig" TO X NATIONAL PRODUCTION COMPANY 459! S.JEAN DETROIT, MICH. 8S Three Decades of' * d < Employee Suggestions \? n p H IR T Y years ago Westingho '' A Electric and Manufacturing CctI ' W h pany instituted a suggestion plan , ing employees an opportunity to prbit''r"tf'* ^ l from their ideas for. cutting proc tion costs, increasing sales, impror efficiency, and promoting safety. Dm? " if lip f ing the period in which, this plan . been in operation, nearly 3 0 per c, ' of the more than 81,000 suggest! received have been adopted by company. One employee has subi ted 155 accepted suggestions; otl - I have received as much as $1200 single ideas. The adopted suggesaons have suited in reducing production o , ' more than $800,000, and have b ro u g h t;^ awards totaling more than $166 (1 1 to their originators. Many admrion^M' thousands of dollars have been sa.. and incalculable misfortune averted through the suggestions made to im-di^L! prove safety and welfare conditions. -- Westinghousi Magazitu __________ Emergency Standards For Toxic Substances EIGHT toxic substances used in fense manufacture have be officially accepted by the Americas Standards Association or the (.< M opment of American Defense Ernergjl ency Standards. These toxic.,-SUbC stances are: acetone, azides--leaohuf sodium, cadmium, ether, tetryl, TNT, and xylol. Development of the emertren^ standards wiE be carried out by$tfiS Sectional Committee cn Alla . ' 'IflA Concentrations of Toxic Dust:- .lr!d'i| Gases. The first draft, cn acetone,-ilg now being circulated for comman anc||| criticism. Railroads Make Records ^ for Freighf Hauling New highs in average loads speeds of freight trains were feajffi of railroad performance in 1940 complete reports for the. year able, the Association of Ame Railroads says that ::he ave amount of freight per train was grea.1 than ever before, 849 tor s, comp ^ with 813 tons in 1939, and that fmi was transported at an average approximately 62 per cens higher 20 years ago. National Safety News, May.