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n. 1959 Kaiionat Safety Congress Q. What special qualifications are re quired of LP-Gas tank truck operators? What is the industry doing about 18 year old drivers? many years without ever seeing it in liquid form. Q. Should. LP-Gas tanks be installed above or below ground? A. It is doubtful if there are any drivers A. Either type of installation is safe so below the age of 21 and industry trains their people thoroughly. One plant calling for three months on the job training was ex* plained. Most operators in the industry se long as it is made according to the rules of NFPA Standard No. 58. One panelist pre ferred above ground when possible as the fittings could be checked more easily. cure men of stable, reliable temperament Q. What is the industry doing about gas and when they are hired they are placed on impurities? a 90 day probation period. They must have an interest in understanding the fuel busi ness. The biggest safety problems are usu ally human problems. In spite of all the work concentrated oa this phase of the in dustry's safety program, a considerable amount of engineering goes into the design A. The specifications of the Natural Gas oline Association of America are accepted by the industry* and followed closely. Mar keters are constantly on the alert to keep off-specification product off the market. This probIon is an operational one rather than safety. of foolproof equipment. As an example, outlet connections on tanks are protected by excess flow valves which automatically cut off the flow of gas in the event of a leak from the piping downstream. Q. What is recommended where a radio and an LP-Gas tank are in the same auto trunk? A. The trunk should be vented. Trained mechanics avoid fuel and ignition sources Q. Are firewalls used around LP-Gas in the same area. This can be done by coro- storage tanks ? partmoitation. It was explained that gaso A. Because of the rapid vaporization of LP-Gas, firewalls arc not considered neces sary, except in the case of large volumes of refrigerated gas. LP-Gas docs not flow a great distance without vaporizing. In fact, many persons have handled LP-Gas for line vapors are heavier than LP-Gas, which is about 1*4 times as heavy as air. In clos ing the discussion, Mr. Wherry summarized the efforts of the industry* *** maintaining a safe record and recommended that those using this fuel provide a continuous pro gram of safety education. SAFETY IN MULTI-PLANT OPERATIONS SOLUTIONS FOR MULTI-PLANT SAFETY ADMINISTRATION PROBLEMS (A Panel Discussion) Moderator: W. -Eugme Stuffing, Directof of Safety, Carrier Carp., Syracuse, N. Y. Participants: Gordon L. Bowen, Safety and Workmen's Compensation Administrator, American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Carp, New York, N. Y. Russell DcRcarocr, Safety Manager, In ternational Business Machines Corp, New York, N. Y. 86 Raymond D. Harvey, Safety Director, In dustrial Safety Section, Ford Motor Co.. Peathorn, Midi. H. M. Huntington, Supervisor of Safety, Internationa! Harvester Co,, Chicago, 111 Stanley W. Parsons, General Safety Di rector, The Carnation Co, Los Angeles, Calif. Fred R. Temple, Chief Safety Engineer, Convair, A Division of General Dynam ics Corp, Fort Worth, Texas. fndurfrtal Softly Quincy W. Ttxraa. Chiei Safety Engineer, Texaco, Inc, Houston, Texas. Stuffing: I have selected 15 questions which in turn have been assigned to various panel members for discussion before your croup. Jn the interest of covering as much ground as possible, I have asked each panel ist to restrict his discussion periods to a maximum of five minutes. After formal du ration, the other panel members will have an opportunity to speak to the same ques tion, should they desire. Question 1: What factors constitute the eternals of a minimum basic accident pre vention program applicable to multi-plants ? tors. Supervisors must be trained, and they must be oriented to the proper place of safety in their everyday operations. This training starts with the very* basics of safety. What is safety; lost time accident frequen cies; severity; IN'orkmen'i Compensation in surance; costs; the basic elements oi the program; supervisory responsibility and all the other phases of it. This must explore the supervisor's participation at the depart ment level, working with his people and training them on the spot. The supervisor will .work on the safety committee and thus have a continuing orientation and training by his rotating participation in these safety committee activities, which also include plant Bozien: The philosophy and policy of my safety and housekeeping inspections. company docs not constitute anything pos The third and fourth points of the pro sibly that you gentlemen have not heard in gram are accident analysis and accident the past. First, may J say that uc are a large comjany of small plants, largely self- insured for Workmen's Compensation. We are adopting a basic program of ten points, effective throughout all of our plants. We lave seme wav to go in this; it is not en tirely in effect at the present time. investigation. To this end ure put the super visor and his department to the test by de termining and showing his accident record from the standpoint of the number of acci dents and the types occurring in his depart ment. This involves a monthly, cumulative accident analysis. This accident analysis is This program is premised upon the re made, broad and general, not particularly sponsibility oi supervision, from the plant specific for individual detailed problems of a manager to the line foreman--for the safety department. program. In our 40 plants in this country and Canada we presently have only three full time safety engineers a* such. The average plant runs 400 to 500 people, so therefore you can appreciate that our per sonnel managers, employee relations man agers must wear several hats. It lists the basic types such as material handling, eye accidents, machine accidents-- to orient us and reveal where the problem is in his department Then the supervisor can find the further detail and what the indi vidual problems are tinder the broad type headings. He can use the staff services of Our first program point is management di his personnel and safety departments. rection and support. This is an old point and vnu arc all familiar with it. However, we must insist that this be a regular and routine part cf all of their responsibilities and just not window dressing. To this end a series of cost and accident statistics meas urements are being validated on the basis of quantity as well as quality and arc being carefully studied on a periodic basis by our top managements. This starts with our ex ecutive offices in New York as well as at the divisions and the plants operating under these divisions. The plant manager is held responsible for The fifth point involves accident experi ence and progress measurement. Lost time accident frequency* and severity is all well and good, but for really close analysis of ac cident prevention progress, we have found that total accident frequency and costs are of greatest importance to the supervisor in relating to bis part of the program. It shows him what the true accident frequency cost is in his plant and in his department. This goes alt the way back up the line to the plant manager and relates to his gross sales and net income, and can be shown as a percent age of his profit. Ail of our managements his cost of operation, safety and workmen's are quite interested and actively concerned compensation being a part of that cost with these accident records and safety per Our second point is supervisory responsi bility. This also includes our personnel man agers. who are also our safety administra formances. Progress is thus measured on a departmental, as well as a total, basis. We in New York get summary inibraiatxoa so 87