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would many tunes repay safety expenditures Thoughtful business leaders soon learned that these savings were only a fraction of the finan cial benefits to be derived from accident pre vention work Indirect financial savings are estimated to be several tunes larger than the direct savings in compensation and medical bills. Acceleration of the drive for safety Industrial safety received wide acceptance m the years between the two world wars Conservation of manpower during World War II intensified the safety growth, and the federal government encouraged safety activi ties by its contractors As industry expanded to meet the needs of the war effort, additional safety personnel were hastily trained to try to keep pace The acceptance of safety as part of the industrial safety picture did not dimm ish with the end of the war By then, the im portance of safety to quality production was well established, and the small handful of dedi cated people m 1912 haJ grown to millions In 1948, for example. Admiral Ben MoreeU, then president of Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation, wrote "Although safe and healthful working con ditions can be justified on a cold dollars-andcents basis, I prefer to justify them on the basic principle that it is the right thing to do In discussing safety in industrial operations, I have often heard it stated that die cost of adequate health and safety measures would be prohibitive and that 'we can't afford it ` "My answer to that is quite simple and quite direct It is this `If we can't afford safety, we can't afford to be in business ' " A discussion of current federal safety legisla tion follows later in this chapter under "Safety and the law " A by-product of organized safety activ ity has been increased interest m safety en gineering on the part of schools of higher learning A number of schools now offer de grees and advanced courses m this subject and wfLDfrtG /ms* Aught rvoauaiskull cap 'peo Tt>/rrHCtrOG*iir&j TOMJPPOHTntSK ireaea rae/t'wiES' skkftt gogol^s MM aerm iOBPnrcr/wrwww CHlumuurt -J/VfGfJ OKBUGS3 SapcucAg akctSqS1 oltva j'/aterxnrra. JAtsx/t-LSA&v fPJtgr trmnr/otH? sura me jBram oafe4?>t. /ftCAfrYGLAS3 Off OUTJ/DK ro* moTrcTtarr oh n m* OTMjrrtUM FlC 1-6 --Workmen's Compensation Seivice Bureau nave "approval only til the principle" of protective equipment and cloth inn Its ' Universal Safety Standard" (dated 1913) did push for double protection even in those earls davs 7