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No doubt your operation! ora similar to ours. We require thot o worker report to tke dispensary regardless of-how slight his in* jury may be. We encourage re peat visits and insist that ony serious cose must be discharged by the nurse or doctor on duty. But os every safety engineer knows,' every scratch or cut or bruise is a potential lost*time in jury. Careful attention to the causes of the two hundred ond ninety nonlost-time injuries will aid the safety engineer in cor recting unsafe or hazardous con ditions. Always astounding is a com parison between the notional acci dent ratio and the war casualty totals. All accidents, both indus trial and nonindustrial, in the United States during the single year 1947 reached the staggering total of 49,000 deaths and 2,650,000 injuries. But these totals become even more unbelievoble when com pared with the total killed and wounded in the American armed forces, including the Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard; during the entire period of World War II from Pearl Harbor to VJ Day, a period of nearly four years. Re membering that these figures ere for one year--the national acci dent ratio--white the war totals are for almost four years, you will note the comparison of per sons killed accidentally in peace time is only slightly less than the number killed in combat, while the number of persons injured in accidents is nearly fifteen times as high as the combat injuries. I realize there is a considerable difference of opinion on how safety campaigns should be in augurated and conducted. In one type the approach is sympathetic and appealing--an educational campaign to persuade the worker rather than to tell him. This might be considered the indirect method. The second is a mandatory safety program in which rules and regulations are established and rigidly enforced with severe . penalties invoked for violations. This we might term the direct method. Companies must be hardbailed . in safety matters for the workers' own protection. Thera can be no compromise with safety. Either a plant has a safety program or It does not have one. Either rules are enforced or they ora not en forced, in which case you might as well not have any. The positive approach to accident prevention is by far the better. All the safety rules and regula tions in the book, all the safe guards and mechanical. devices ever Invented will be of no avail if employes are permitted to disre gard the rules. Accident prevention really pays. . ta (be September IMS Issue ol "tabor and Industry Rovtow" oa pas* H. an *dt (orlal frea tbs "Sunbury Pair Now*" was quoted as toUowsi Thai Is purely a baud upon lb* cossdsatloiis wstfcor wboss toqulat cuMbuttaa la Ibo torn ot payroll de ductions crabs possible tbs Uosmploymesl Compensation Fund.* Workers do not contribute toward lbs Cnomploytaeal Compensation Fund and Ibis stalemost (boreloro was In error. 29