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on organization which keeps up to date on all of the latest de vices, that is aggressive in pro moting them and in encouraging their use, that has enough gogettiveness to persuade the ex ecutive management of the plant to be interested, and to get the supervisors ond the workmen and everyone else to work with them. We need thot safety deportment as a spearhead. We must have it. It is a MUST. But no safety deportment will make the plont safe. No plant ond management can make a plant safe. The plane manage ment must be sympathetic, must encourage sofety, must put its weight behind it. But not alone. Everybody has got to be safety conscious--every supervisor, every workman. They have to think all the time about doing everything in the way that will be the least hazardous. One of the ways in which that can be done is by pro moting good housekeeping, order liness. Things that are stacked properly, don't fall over. If there is no rubbish pile, you can't trip over it. Not only do housekeeping and orderliness promote good pro duction and workmanship, but they promote safety. So I would think that the very first move in trying to make a safe place to work would be to do a good job of housekeeping. Then from there on, keep every thing in mind, that anything that can cause an accident is a po tential hazard, not only to the physical well-being but to the economic investment with which we are surrounded. And if we could school ourselves to do that ond school everybody in ear or ganization to do that, we will probably come as close to the ul timate in having a safe place in which to work as anyone could come. Safety programs are supposed to improve morale. I don't know what morale is. Some people think it is having music with your work, and others have different formu las. Bat to me morale is mostly made up of being satisfied with the place in which you work, hovIng confidence and respect for the people you work with--your supervisor having respect for the workman, and workmen having respect for the supervisor. And oil of us can have more respect for the other fellow in our organ ization. It is to feel that he has an interest in our welfare and our sofety and that he is doing something all the time to try to moke our work place a better place in which to work. In talking with oar foremen and superintendents, I always try to break down overhead and other abstract things around a manu facturing plant, into terms they can understand. I try to repre sent the lights that are burning, tho machines we buy for them to use and it represents all tho brass hats and its represents too many brooms when they don't use them in the right way. It represents little things and safety in the same way represents little things. It may mean that you take a side step sometime instead of stepping forward and you step into an un safe position instead of o safe one. 12