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542 Twentieth Congress--Sationa! Safety Council doesn't know tlc thing he should know, it is not the saiety department's fault: it is Jus foreman's fault. We take minutes <if those meetings, liut we do not lake the men's lames. Tlic foreman. suirrintendent. and general manager gets a copy. Once each year those employees come back for that same quiu. and we do not try to tell them what will liappen. We show them by actual demonstration. J can't go into that now because it would take too long. If it is possible to educate a man, without going to all that expense, in some other way I would certainly like to know bow it can l>c done. Personally, I have the feel ing that is the only possible way to let the employee realize you arc absolutely in earnest. Those fellows come lack once a year and spend a couple of hours, or two hours and a halt with the aietv department, and we get very valuable information m regard to conditions which exist in the plant of which we have had no knowledge, and a great many, times of which the foreman has had no knowledge. ADJOURNMENT Chemical Section 545 Thursday Morning Session October 15, 1931 JOHN ROACH. Chairman Deputy Commissioner of Labor, State of New Jersey, Trenton, N. J. The last session of the Chemical Section convened with Vice-Chairman John Roach presiding. Chairman Roach; The first order of business will lie a rejxirt >n the trend oi accident* in our industry, by Mr. Kepner, Accident Experience in the Chemical Industry in 1930 By IRA V. KEPNER Chairman, Chemical Section, Statistics Committee While it is very difficult to find something new jjIamu accident statistics, it is a topic i.if vital iinjKtrtancc and never-ending interest to those of us who lielievc com plete, permanent and reliable records and statistics arc a necessity in the conduct of present day successful accident prevention work--which, more and more, is leading us into fields of science, experiment and research--all of which is eminently worth while, tor it is by just such development and progress that many organizations in the Chemical Industry have not only made new accident records, but reduced acci dents to almost tlic vanishing point. Your Statistics Committee and sectional officers were very much pleased by the excellent response of members to requests far 1930 accident records. Through your cooperation the 1930 accident experience is iased upon the largest num!cr of plants ever to report, and gives, therefore, a more reliable picture of the accident situation in the Chemical Industry than has liecn indicated by reporting companies in any previous year. During 1930 your Statistics Committee received reports from the following estab lishments ; 15 plants manufacturing carbon products 26 plants manufacturing explosives 11 plants manufacturing industrial gases 15 plants manufacturing acids 13 plants manufacturing chlorine and alkali products 9 plants manufacturing dyes 16 plants manufacturing paints and varnishes 15 plants manufacturing pharmaceutical and fine chemicals 16 plants manufacturing soap 9 plants manufacturing and distilling coal tar, and 66 other plants not classified. This makes a total of 211 establishment# reporting, in comparison to 1/2 for 1929; hours of exposure, however, were slightly less in 1930. as was the case in most of the other industries, the figures showing a decline of about 17 per cent from 1929 to 1930. The increase in the number of reporting plants. 1 believe, is ample evidence of the interest which many mcmliers have in their accident records, and in the efforts of our section to develop reliable statistics. According to the man-hours worked, operations in chemical plants during 1930 did not decrease as much as in some other industries. But in spite of the recent depression, and a drop below a full schedule, the chemical industry had a good year. Onr^ lost-time injuries averaged 15.50 per million hours worked in comparison to 1K.47 for all industries. This rate gave us a rank of tenth in a list of 28 major