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Current Topics in INDUSTRIAL As preMoied in the Sabfaet Sss!oas of fho 1949 National Safety Congress. Sponsored by ..the American Society of Safety Eagieoors American Society of Safety Engineer Safety Engineering and Production........................ Safetyr--A Major Commodity in Industrial Relations (A Panel Discussion)................................ IV. fire Prevention Protecting Life and Resources From Fire-- A National Problem.................................... Safe Handling of Liquefied Petroleum Gases. New Methods in Industrial Fire Control........ Job Safety Analyses and On-thedob Instruction Safety Analyses an Aid to On-thc-Job Instruction. Presenting Case Analyses (A Panel Discussion).... Labor-Management and Safety What Can Be Done by Labor Organizations and Industry to Reduce Off-the-Jcb Accidents (A Symposium) ......................................................... WHat Industry Can Do to Reduce Off-the-Job Accidents................ Wkat Organised Labor Can Do to Reduce Off-the-Job Accidents. (Coirtiaatd on aerf page/ 15 16 22 27 28 35 35 38 Volume 15 Transactions 1949 National Safety Congress NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL 20 North Wadcor Drive Chicago 6, Illinois 50 Maintaining Interest in Accident Prevention such repetition makes for emphasis. . We have two mascots for our suggestion system--"Reddy Doc" and "Brite I- Dear.*' As mouthpieces of the division they on convey messages which we could not--at least not in such a breezy manner. . The posting date is dovetailed. into the safety engineer's schedule at a time when unusual care should be exercised, especially , out of doors. In this series of posters we promote safety along with other types of suggestions'. . Many other companies follow a similar procedure. Or. payroll inserts and in letters mailed to the homes of employees, we outline types of suggestions wanted and safety ; 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 de partment 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 matcrials-saving suggestions. Effective publidty is essential and proper consideration on the pan of suggestion administrators and com mittees. These features can be accomplished through the use of an evaluation chan as sembled by a group of administrators to be used in determining awards tor approved safety suggestions. Application of this chan promotes uniformity in consideration and in awards. . In reality, awards arc based on a point system and the points have value in the award range. For instance, the following scale was approved: 25-30 points .....................Minimum award 40-50 points ........................................... S10 55-65 points ......,................................... $13 . (Graduated upward in similar proportion) The chan includes five considerations in rating suggestions by points: 1. Likelihood of accident ... Some .................. 5-10 Appreciable .....................................15-25 Considerable . `.............................. 30-50 (plttj'i 2. F.xpnrure Frequency ....Little. ................ .............................5-10. Appreciable ...................................15-25 C'niderab!e ..................................30-5 (nlu- 3. Possible Extent ofLoss Due to Ace;dent. Personal Injuryand/or Property Slight .....................'...................... 5 Moderate: . r*.......... . .10-15 Appreeiable .................................... 20-30 Considerable ............___ 35-50 (plus) 4. Extent of Application Local (one or two places)............. 5-10 Several locations............................15-25 General application -- many loca tions throughout plant or com pany ............................................... 30-50 (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. How many words does it take to describe a baby's smile? Do you know of a better or quicker way than to show his picturet Look at this baby's picture. I challenge you to put in words what you see; in sec onds, however, his picture tells more than you can describe with a thousand words. But you ask me. "Just why, Mr. Miller, should I be interested in listening to you talk about a baby's picture?*' The reason Picture Your Problems 51 is simply this, even- man or woman in ourselves this question: Why not resolve our safety work has many occasions to describe lost time injury experience into pictures? situations. Often times you want' to put We made several studies, but finally settled ideas over quickly and effectively. Many on a simple classification of accidents by ' of you are supervisors; a part of your parts of the body injured. _ work consists of instructing and telling We found that foot injuries lead the list, people how 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 your ideas across is to use a picture, or a fact we had experienced a steady reduction series of pictures. in these types of injuries over the past five Pictures ti real situations, taken in your years, these four body types, feet, legs, shop, oi your own people have proven quick hands, eyes, accounted for two-thirds--68 ' and effective means to describe a situation, .per cent--of our lost time cases-for the_ to sell ah idea, to promote a ` drive, to year; There -were several ways 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 W'e 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 diains, how to injured legs, mangled hands, and lost eyes-- signal to the crane operator, and how to cash awards to our employees and members : hook-up the part. Pictures have proven of their families for telling each other, by excellent tools tor an instructor. They means of pictures, how to keep from getting convey 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-mcans of giving dear and accurate descriptions. keep .on enjoying God's greatest gift--eye'sight........... . ...................... ........-*..... ' Or suppose you were-trying to copvince a supervisor he should put on a safety shoe campaign. You could show how one 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 shoes? Here is a picture showing how "Jimmy*' looks in safety shoes, while his admiring dad and grandpap look on. Timmy's father 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 temperaments, likes and dislikes. But all 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-IHinois Steel picture 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 >6f pictures to convey ideas and to motivate action, we at Westinghouse. East Pittsburgh Works, asked We congratulated the winners and made the cash awards. We sent each entrant a letter enclosing a photostatic copy of the 52 bfaintaining Interest in Accident Prevention judges' decisions before any public an- excellent selection of picture posters, tailored nouncement was made. We thanked each to fit our particular problem, made by our 't i - and every person sending in a poster for . people..personalized as.messages- of one en- . V hfs sincere interest in helping to solve a plovee to another. common problem and asked his continued ln spjrjt 0f good toward men interest and support ot our accident pre- these messages come from the hearts and vention program. minds of our workmen. They seem to say. Then we displayed the posters in various "Take care of yourself buddy and look out wavs--for our shop people--for our office tor the other fellow." . people--and for the family members. At lt is 0ur feeling at Westinghouse that one location in the shop we had two walls our employees through their efforts to help covered with posters four poster., high and us "picture our problem" deserve a share extending 100 feel. of the .credit for our IMS. reduction-in both We decided to.- go a step- further in the accident frequency and-"severiry. Working 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 together as employees, supervisors, medical, and safety personnel, we were able to improve both in severity and frequency, to the extent that the National Safety Council honored us with the "Distinguished Service to Safety Award". for IMfi. Wc. were grateful for diis honor, - lunch periods looking over these posters You may not be interested in conducting objectively, and making their selections. a picture poster contest, but remember. 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"of everycontestant tliif his work had been judged by two independ- whether your problem is one of selling, teaching, supervising, controlling quality, instructing men how to work, or preventing accidents--actual photographs.or hpqte. m^de . pictures'"to' supplement your commercial posters are very helpful in quickly, easily, ent groups, by one group outside our plant, and effectively getting your points acros. and bv one group made up of his friends Whatever your problems may be. pictures and neighbors. - are very helpful tools. Words cannot effec- After the contest we asked our printing lively describe life situations. Pictures department to duplicate the posters for use make them live. You can do well to "pic on our bulletin boards. We now have an tore 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-in-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 fair, 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-diUers." are scanned over in competition with other similar ma terial--routine stuff. Slogans are here to day. and gone tomorrow, and soon for gotten. There are exceptions to all this, of course: The National Safety Council slogan "Be