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62 29tft Naturae/ Safety Congress MR. HIEROKYMOUS: 1 don't think Mr. Cooper's rotaries are all incompatible with vbal voa had in mind. Mr. Cbinnaa X ihoe/ore would like to sake a motion that thh group asternMrd here this Boning adopt the nggerJou yon made, and that you, as Chairman of this metting. cost* mtmicate oar action to these various troops you mention, la other words, the motann void be tht the associations and \*ariuns groups that operate public bonding* cooperate with the National Safety Council and take some acrtol steps so farther rafeiy Work in the bu3diugs they represent. 1 make that a morion. CHAIRMAN WHISTOK: l< there a second? (The morion was regularly seconded, pot to a rote, and carried.) ADJOUKXMEXT Eye Protection FRIDAY MORNING SESSION October u. 1940 The meeting for the discussion of prob lems of eye protection, which was sponsored by the National Society for the Prevmtioa of Blindness m cooperation with the Na tional Safety Council, was called to order by the Oairnmn Dr. Leonard Greeuburg. Executive Dtredor, Division of Industrial Hygiene New York State Department of Labor. New York Gty, who presided. CHAIRMAN GREENBURG: The meet ing this morning is intended to be a ray informal one. We have a chief speaker, bus m addition we hare a panel discussion which is completely and totally unpre faced. the idea being that many of you gentlemen in the audience have had a grot deal of experience with eye protection in industry. Some of our experts who have been invited here wiD discuss various aspects and phases of this problem, baaed chiefly on questions ubidb have come ha to us from time- to time, but it most be dearly under stood that anybody- in the audience on partiapatc h the discussions as be may wish. Finally. 1 want to say that the problem of eye protection in industry docs not con sist of the gathering of data and drag "*"*""8 about it. I am ray much reminded of the remark of our dear departed friad. \VH! Rogers, whoa he said that data are Eke garbage: after you collect them you hare to find rouioiuBg to do with them, and that is our problem this morning, to find just vbi we are going to do with these interesting figures. The first speaker of the morning is Dr. M. Davidson, who faappau to be a confrere ox mine in New York State and who for many years has been in charge of the eye work for the Stare of New York Depart ment of Labor. Industry's Obligation to More Adequately Protect die Worker's Eyesight By M. DAVIDSON. M.D. Ophthalmologist. New York State Department of Labor, New York City There are two aspects to this obti^tion of industry to safeguard its workers* eyes. One is to make the on ifnamed safe for the worker by eliminating haanli canting sco- dcnls, and the dusts, fumes, mtonettiaus and poor iCcminariua, responsible for occu pational Safety measures have accomplished much since the turn of the century. The other aspect, thax of making the worker safe for himself. Iris co-worker and indnstry. has as yet tan received the recogni tion it deserves. It iniulm proper voca tional gnkfaare and advice for the applicant for employment with defective eyesight vtd for the worker who has ac quired it to the course of hb employment. To reject him as an applicant when found whh soch a defect or to disrhaige hhn after mnjrioyxaem, is obviously an inade quate social sedation of the problem. It should be emphasized that errors of refraction are not oniitidcrcd here as consti tuting true defective eyesight, as long as normal visual acuity can be secured by cor recting the errors with glasses. Such errors prevail in more than one-half of the popu lation. When tmeorreeted, they are of course a handicap and a source of eye strain, par ticularly under poor iBumhiation- The true defectives are those with ir remediable defective eyesight, either in vis- 63