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134 Twenty-first Congress-National Safety Couneil on both formally and inforroall}-, Tbc forma! items will include routine safety instructions, safety meetings, the work of safety committees, and such devices as bulletins, bulletin boards and articles in the employees' publications. Informally, the personnel staff will promote safety through individual personal contacts with Iwth cmplo3*ees and supervisors at machines, workbenches, and in various private offices. During the period oi slack work, employees find difficulty in maintaining the rhythm necessary for safety and satisfactory production. A certain period of re adjustment is necessary when a man returns to work. This is the dangerous time as far as accidents are concerned. Constant care and watchfulness must be exer cised to see iliat he does not lapse into careless habits of work. In such times it follows that tle safety division will have to continue its work with a reduced pervxtncl. If other personnel workers can make it their business to take up the slack, the safety program can be maintained and the safety record of the plant will not lie endangered. Tlie emjdoymcnt division will cooperate by emphasizing the importance of safety at the time of employment, transfer, and other contacts with employees. The medical division will assist in the analysis of accident causes, preparation of liter ature. talks before employee groups, and by personal contact. The training division will emphasize safe practices m every training program. Safety is such an im portant part in the industrial relations program that I believe the thread of safety and safe practices should run through all the contacts of personnel workers and employees. In a period of retrenchment the safety program is eien more vital than in prosj*erous times. From the standpoint of the employer. serious accidents cut into jrroductian costs more bearily at such a time than when i*roduction is at a higher leveL From the employees' standpoint, the loss at wages is much more serious Treatise of the difficulty of saving for a rainy day when wages are barely sufficient to keep the family going at the best. Management is naturally compelled to curtail all nan-essential activities. tVliBr safety can readily be called a non-essential, frequently it must be demonstrated that the jrrsonnel staff is actually producing savings by its safety activities if unwarranted reductions in the staff are to hie lrevented. Activities zn Slack Times When work is slack there are certain sjiecific things which can lie done to furtlter a safety program which are not possible during peak operations. These may be listed as follows: 1. Machinery should be cltecked over for hazards which can easily he overlooked under maximum production conditions. 2. Personnel workers who are handy with tools can make necessary repairs to guards, thus saving maintenance costs. 3. All safety equipment which normally is in constant use can be checked over and inspected during slack periods. A. It is ]>osiblr to watch operatitms more in detail than is possible under normal operating conditions and hence provide safeguards against hazards which might easily lie overlooked. 5. There is more time for safety training. t\. Systematic inspection of elevator cables, chain hoists, and similar equipment can be conducted during such a period. 7. This is a good time to inaugurate a program of inspection of drawings of all new dies and tools, including safety device features. Automotive and Maehine Shat> Seetian 135 WEDNESDAY MORNING SESSION October 5, 1932 The session opened with a presentation of the Report nt the Nominating Com mittee consisting oi Hoyt 1,, Fracher. Detroit Steel Products CoTM H. A. Shaw. Murray Body Corp, and K. F. Thalner. Bttkk Motor Car Co. The inllineing officers were presented for consideration and were formally elected: General Chairman. Carl Storck. Botch Motor Co, Flint. Mich. ('ire Chairmen. M. J. McCarthy. Fisher Body CorpTM Detroit. Mich. Dr. Janies H. Greene. Stndebaker Corp- South fiend. Ind. Srrretary. K. A. Callam. Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Corp_ Detroit. Mich. Scivs-Letter Editor, Xils Juell. Hayes Body Corp., Grand Rapids. Midi. Program Committer Chairman. Hoyt L Fracher. Detroit Steel Prtiducts CoTM Detroit. Midi. Statistics Committee Chairman. C. \Y. Bishop, l.ycutning Manufacturing C_ Will iamsport, Pa. Engineering Committee Chairman. X. H. Kupfcrer. Studdraker Conwratiun, South Bend. Ind. Slides and Sajcty Kinks Committer Chnirman. Marvin A. Hcidt, P.udd Wheel CorpTM Detroit. Mich. Membership Committee Chairman. M. A. Kroger. Chevrolet Forge DivTM General Motors CorpTM Detroit, Mich. Publicity Committee Chairman. W. A. Bechill, Chrysler CorpTM Detroit. Mich. Health Committer Chairman. Dr. A. F. Lecklider, Fislicr Body CorpTM Detroit. Mich. Members ut Large: L. E. Averiil, C- H. Dockson Css. l>etroit. Midi. C. M. Dotterrer. Graham-Paige Motors CorpTM Detroit. Mich. R. A. Shaw. The Murrav Corp. of America. Detroit. Mich. R. F. Thalner, Hoick Motor Co.. Flint. Mich. JUl. * 3- . , H h t_F 1 The Medical Department Presents the Case for Safety By DR. A F. LECKLIDER Medical Director, Fisher Body Corp., Detroit The speaker said in part: 1 am to endeavor to show our management and our directors where, in the eyes of their medical department, it is worth while y* them to spend their money, their thought and energy in formulating and hacking up a safety program. Times. I am informed, are now less jirosjierous. There is a tendency everywhere toward wholesale economies and the elimination of all activi ties classed as non-essential or non-productive. b ! haw noted many oi the economy measures pul into effect and have fcU the pinch two times a month myself. AH these measures have seemed to lie only partly successful in keeping the Ship of Industry on an even keel. In the same hour when someone of these measures, jiroductivc of a few dollars and performed with hackbrcakmg efforts, goes into effect, two finger amputations and a fractured leg come into the hospital. By this event your small decrease in cost of quarter panel finishing is shot for four and a half days; vour first class hand sawyer is transformed into a third class tracker, who becomes again, as the depression comes into full swing, a first class client at the doors of your welfare department. No jiroper technique on the stumps of fingers will enable those stumps to completely surround the hand of a lever or a hammer again. I do not know of a single serious injury which has not resulted m a social problem case. All are potential social problems, many of them with aspects en-