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taken of the employe* and read by Dr. R. D. Swab, the diagnoses of which ore available to the em ployes' fomily physician. Many of our problems would not today be solved were it not for the help and cooperation of various organizations. Let me give credit and thanks to the fol lowing: Dr. A. J. Lanza, Dr. W. J. Mc Connell and Mr. J. W. Fehnel, Industrial Heolth Service of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com pany, and Dr. L. W. Gardner, of Saranac Laboratory, who hove worked with us since 1929; Dr. Walmer and Mr. Hemeon, of the Industrial Hygiene Founda tion of the Mellon Institute; United States Federal Depart ment of Health; Members of the Asbestos Tex tile Institute; Turner-Newall .of Rochdale, England; British Belting and Asbestos Company; and last but not least the cooper ation of the Health Hygiene Bureau of the Pennsylvania De partment of Labor and Industry. I refer particularly to Dr. Shilen, Messrs. Dooley, Koppenhaver, Cole and Draude--all of these men have been of inestimable value in our efforts to control a serious hazard. And to our own Managers and Board of Directors, many thanks, for they have cer tain!y been enthusiastic. Dust can be controlled. It is a continuing job day after day, month after month and year after year. *tt (jj ACCIDENT PREVENTION TRAINING WILLIAM W. KEARNS Mr. Kearns Is Service Superintendent, E. I. duPont de Nemours & Company, Philadelphia HE subject of Accident Preven Ttion Training, as discussed here, will be in two parts. The first is a definite packaged training program by that name and the second phase is a recently in novated "safety clinic," which is for supervision. Accident prevention training has always been a very important port of all duPont training since one of the first company powder plant explosions in 1818. The company was willing to assume the responsibility for safeguarding employes from occupational haz ards. Likewise, they assumed the responsibility for occupational in juries. As a result of this explo sion In 1818, the families of the victims were subsidized with pay ments from the company. Now this was practically one hundred years before a majority of the States had ony Workmen's Com pensation Act, but you can realize that with two different explosions --two officers of the company 23