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interpretation. If not, there are many in the public who are all too ready to supply an unfavorable interpretation. Whatever you do, you must remenilter that Industrial Hygiene must lie interpreted as managing with a heart. MK. McMAHON: 1 would like to ask, Mr. Stock, what are the social responsibilities that the public seems to expect from the plant? ME. STOCK: When we asked the citizens in a number of representative communities. "What should a plant do for its employees,*' the very first idea that comes into their mind is security. To a large extent this word, "Security." is just a nice tasting word to the American public, having no specific meaning. But a fairly large portion of the public use the word "Security" to mean good working conditions, healthful and safe jobs. A fourth to a third of the general public mention specifically that industrial plants should provide for their employees clean places to work, good light ing. good ventilation, showers, good drinking water, safety devices of all kinds and so forth. MR. Mc.MAMON: If 1 may ask one more question, what do you find is the benefit of u>tng the "Y" in the formula, of telling the story? MR. STOt'K: I am glad you asked that. Recently, in a study of ulmul 4S companies, w* made a comparison uf the top 12 und the ImUom 12 in public cote in their communities. We found that all top 12 in public vote m>t only lived right but interpreted tlwir living right. The management of the bottom 12 told us they didn't bother to interpret their good acts. None of the top 12. with average age older than the bottom 12, had ever had a strike. Of the lottom 12. eleven had had one or more strikes within the last In years. We have studied numerous examples of the pay-off of adding good interpretation to good acts. Notably, we have observed cases where strikes have been averted or shortened, production increased, ami costly turnover cut down. Mr. tiiven has pointed out that when people know that a plant i. a good place to work they want to work there. This has tremendous meaning to a firm that's trying to hire and keep the most qualified workers. 22 SUMMARY OF HELD STUDIES AND RESEARCH-1947 THEODORE F. HATCH Research Director. Industrial Hygiene Foundation President, American Industrial Hygiene Association Field research undertakings by the Foundation during the past year have exceeded the work of previous years in magnitude urn! scope as well as in the number of projects. Studies have covered a wide variety of repre sentative industrial problems, ranging from investigation of underground operation to measurements of amounts and composition of wastes dis charged from stacks. A few undertakings were routine in nature, requiring the use of highly standardized procedures for the correction of well-recog nized hazards. For the most part, however, the studies have lieen more basic, even requiring entirely new procedures, anil having to do with broader problems than the simple discovery and correction of a hazardous exposure. This is tiest indicated by the following list, which summarizes briefly the primary objectives of some major projects: SUMMARY OF PRIMARY OIUKtTIVKS OF Sl'KC'IAt. I'ROJKtTS 1947 1. Coordination of dust control pr'wedures (industry-wide). 2. Over-all appruisal of industrial health problems and advice on organization and opeaution of industrial hygiene service by company. 2. Preliminary investigations of new dust ami fume problems to develop the needed research program for further study. 4. Basic engineering analysis of operations with {Engineering De partment to develop sound design procedures for ventilation ami other control measures in place of empirical practices. 5. Over-all study of operations in a chemical phint to provide the ! most effective layout and design of a new plant und equipment for maximum "built-in" control of hazardous materials. ft. Development of an operator training program, basic control measures, and a continuous sampling und alarm sysLem for- a toxic gas which characteristically escapes accidentally rather than as a daily occurrence. 7. Basic investigation of radiant heat in a hot industry, to deter mine the primary sources and pattern of exposure, with a view 2:t