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As prssea+ed is the 5abjecf Sessions of tie 1949 National Safety Congress, Sponsored by tie American Society of Safety Engineers American Society of Safety Engineers Safety Engineering and Production.................................. Safety^--A Major Commodity in industrial Relations (A Panel Discussion)................................ ..................... .. . 5 9 Fire Prevention Protecting Life and Resources From Fine-- A National Problem.................. . .................................. 15 - Safe Handling of Liquefied Petroleum Gases.................. 16 New Methods in Industrial Fire Control.......................... 22 Job Safety Analyses and On-the-Job Instruction Safety Analyses an Aid to On-the-Job Instruction........ 27 Presenting Case Analyses (A Panel Discussion).............. 28 Labor-Management and Safety What Can Be Done by Labor Organizations and industry to Reduce Off-the-Job Accidents (A Symposium) .......................................................... 35 WViat Industry Can Do to Reduce Off-tbe-Job Accidents......................... 35 WKat Organized Labor Can Do to Reduce Off-the-Job Accidents. .. 38 fCont/need on next page} Volume IS Transactions 1949 National Safety Congress NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL 20 Norib Wacker Drive Chicago 6, Illinois i f n:r.g interest in Accident Prci'cni re;*:;.:;: :rt makes tor emphas:'. We have two mascots for our suggestion system--"Reddy Doe" and "Britc I- Dear." As mouthpieces of the division ahey can convey messages which we could not--a: ices: nc: in such a breezy manner. The posting cate is dovetailed. into the safety engineer's schedule at a time when ur.usuai care should re exercised, especially , cut of doers. In this srrres of posters we promote safety along with other types of suggestions. Many other companies- follow a similar procedure. On payroll inserts and in letters mailed to the hc/mes of employees, we outline types of suggestions waned and safety A always included. A suggestion system administrator should work very closely with the safety engi neer. We route safety suggestions to him for first consideration, iust as we route ad vertising suggestions to the advertising departmen: and production suggestions to the production department. In a recent analysis of awards for a six-month period we noted that 19 per cent were based on safety. A recent report from the .Illinois Central Railroad showed 39 per cent of the awards were for safety suggestions. - The promotion of safety depends `upon its listing along with time-saving and materiais-saving suggestions. Effective publicity is essential and proper consideration on the part of suggestion administrators and com mittees. These features can be accomplished through the use of an evaluation chart as sembled by a group of administrators to be used in determining awards for approved safety suggestions. Application of this chart promotes uniformity in consideration and in -.wards. . in reaiiry. awards arc tias^ c system and the joints have vai:-C in U:c award range. For instance, the following scale was approved; 25-30 points ..................... Minim um award 40-50 points ................................ ..............$10 55-65 points ................................ ..........SI5 (Graduated upward in similar pr opcrtior. 1 The rating chart includes suggestions by five points c: onside'-r-a--ti--oTns -- ir. 1. Litclihaod of accident ,. Some ...................................... s-in Appreciable ............................ ....15-25 Considerable ........................... ....30-50 (pluA 2. Exposure Frequency Little ....................................... Appreciable .......................... ___ 15-2OcisideraHe .......................... . .. .30-91 (piu- 3. Possible Extent n: Lose Pup to Ace-- dent, Personal Injury end 'or Property Slight ...................................... T Moderate . -...... ..................... .. .10-15 Appreciable ............................. . .20-30 Considerable ..................... .... ....35-50 (plus) 4. Extent of Application Local (one or rwo places)... .... 5-10 Several locations ................... General application -- many loca- " tions throughout plant or com- panv ........................................ 30-^0 (plus) 5. Effectiveness of Suggestion Minimizes hazard . . ...... 5-1C Limits hazard................. ...... .. ..15-25 Eliminates hazard ................. .. ..30-50 (plus! Picture Your Problems (An Illustrated Talk) By MYRON L. MILLER Safety Supervisor, Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh. Pa. Hew man;.- words does it take to describe .. baby's smile' Dc you know of a better :r quicker wa v than to snow his picture f Look at '.ms baby's picture. I challenge ; ou to put words what you see; in sec onds. however, his picture tells more than you can describe with a thousand w-ords. But you ask me. "Just why. Mr. Miller, should I be interested in listening to you taik about a baby's picture?" The reason Picture Your Prcbierr.c . this. every man or woman in ourscives this question: Why not rc;;b.e cur ....: -irk has many occasions to describe lost time injury experience irtc p:mires' <;t - Often times you want to put We made several studies, but finally settled i'feo ^vrr quickly and effectively. Many on a simple classification of accidents by of j are supervisors; a part of your parts of the body injured wor-t consists of instructing and telling We found that foot injuries lead the lisp ;ecp'.e her*' to do things. leg injuries were second, hands third, and A quick, easy, and accurate way to put injuries to the eyes fourth. In spite of the our ideas across is to use a picture, or a fact we had experienced a steady reduction i-rries of pictures. ir. these types of injuries over the past five Pictures of real situations, taker, in your years, these four body types, feet, legs, %hcp. of your own people have proven quick hands, eyes, accounted for two-thirds--6$ and effective means to describe a situation. per cent--of our lost time cases for the :o sell ar. idea, to promote a .drive, tc year;' There -were several wavs of using present proof, or to explain a safe work pictures to present this problem; however, operation. we decided to., ask our people to help. us Suppose you wanted to instruct a work man how to remove a machined part from ``picture our problem" and help us find the solution. a boring mill table. You could show him We offered money prizes for the best a picture pointing out how to' position the pictures . telling the .story of. broken feet, crane, how to spread the dains. how to injured legs, mangled hands, and lost eyes-- signal to the crane operator, and how to cash awards to our employees and members book-up the part. Pictures have proven of their families for telling each other, by excellent tools for an instructor. They means of pictures, how to keep from getting coavey ideas quickly and accurately. As hurt--how to protect feet and legs, how safety engineers you are interested in safe to preserve precious hands and how to work practices. . Pictures, .provide, a .means keep on enjoying God's greatest gift--eye of giving clear and accurate descriptions. " sight"..................... '- - " " Or suppose you were trying to. convince a s :sor he should put on a safety shoe cat i. You could show how ooc shop superintendent gained the good will and put across a drive 100 per cent in his depart ment. Here is an actual photograph of a superintendent in our transportation and generator division comparing his safety shoes with one of his workmen, while other workmen hold up the 100 per cent banner. This is a proud group, and the superintend ent is a real guy. Do you think he is hav ing trouble getting his men to wear safety Our people responded. Picture posters came in from literally everywhere. Sons and daughters of employes sent in pictures. Engineers gave" attention to our problem and sent in their answers. Artists offered their solutions. Office men and women made posters. Workmen from all parts of the shop brought in their answers in picture form. There were all kinds of posters ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime--posters appealing to all types of people and every conceivable mood--pictures suited to various shoes? temperaments, likes and dislikes. But all Here is a picture showing how "Jimmy" looks in safety shoes, while his admiring dad and gmandpap look on. Timmy's father picture posters aimed at one central thought --how to reduce human waste--how to pre vent feet, leg, hand, and eye injuries. is a toolmaker in our company. Jimmy's We called in outside judges--men who mother formerly worked for us in our were not connected in any way with our accounting department. Both of Jimmy's company. A safety consultant from the grandfathers and several of his uncles and Western Pennsylvania Safety Council, a aunts work in our offices and shops. Jimmy's safety engineer from Camegie-Illinois Stee! picur-c on a poster did much to attract Corporation, and an instructor of art from attention and sell our people on safety our local high school. They deliberated for shoes. hours and finally made their selections. Realizing the power-bf pictures to convey We congratulated the winners and made ideas and to motivate action,, we at West- the cash awards. We sent each entrant a in'-' sc. East Pittsburgh Works, asked letter enclosing a photostatic copy of the I \ J a tr - Maintaining Interest in Accident Prevcr.ticr. judge;' decisions before ar.y public an nouncement was made. We thanked eacr. and every person sending in a poster ior his sincere interest in helping to solve a common probiem and asked his continued interest and support of our accident pre vention program. Then we displayed the posters in various ways--for our shop people--for our office people--and for the family members. At one location in the shop we had two walls covered with posiers_four poster^ high and extending iOO feet. We decided to go a step further in the matter of awards. We had a "popularity vote." Each employee had an opportunity to vote for the picture poster -of his choice. Both shop or office peopie were encouraged to cast votes for the posters they thought to be most effective. Our people entered into the spirit of the contest and spent their lunch periods looking over these posters objectively, and making their selections. After the votes were counted, we had a completely new set of winners, so we made more cash awards. By this token we made more people happy. We satisfied a feeling' on the part or every contestant that his work had been judged by two independ ent groups, by one group outside our plant, and by one group made up of his friends and neighbors. . _ . _ After the contest we asked our printing department to duplicate the posters for use on our bulletin boards. We now have an excellent selection of ;::c;ure posters, tailcre-i to tit our particular problem, mad; K- cur people..personalized as messages, of one em ployee to another. In the spirit of good will toward men. these messages come from the hearts and minds of our workmen. They seem to say. "Take care of.yourself buddy and look cut for the other fellow." It is our feeling at Westinghcuse that our employees through their_efforts to help us "picture oumproblem""deser've ~a 'snare of the credit for our'194S reduction in both accident frequency and* severity'. Working together as employees, supervisors, medical, and safety personnel, we were able to im prove both in severity and frequency, to the extent that the National Safety Council honored us with the "Distinguished Service to Safety Award" for 1048. Wu were grateful for this honor. You may not be interested in conducting a picture poster contest, but remember, whether your problem is one of selling, teaching, supervising, controlling quality, instructing men how to work, or preventing accidents--actual photographs or home, made pictures to supplement your commercial posters are very helpful in quickly, easily, and effectively getting your points across. Whatever your problems may be. pictures are-very-helpful tools. Words cannot-'effec^ lively describe life situations. Pictures make them live. You can do well to "pic ture your problems." Cartoons Maintain Interest and Pay Dividends By JAMES D. BARSTOW Cartoonist, General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. The most comprehensive and far-reaching safety campaign will fall far short of the desired result unless interest is constantly maintained. Frequent "Shots-m-the-Arm" are needed. Human nature, being what it is, John Q. Public requires a constant beating of the drum to hold his attention on any one subject very long. There is so much competition. Something new and more interesting is continually popping up. Like a man walking down the midway at a - county lair, he is drawn here and there by competing attractions. Safety facts and figures are apt to be pretty cold. Graphs and charts are convincing material, if you can get your audience to pause and reflect. Photographs and human interest stories, unless they are "chiller-dillers." are scanned over in competition with other similar ma terial--routine stuff. Slogans are here to day. and gone tomorrow, and soon torgotten. There are exceptions to all this, of course: The National Safety Council slogan "Be I jsuu.ea*m m -