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mine-run, nonoperating duties were beginning to be done in o slip-shod, coreless .monner. Super vision become aware of the prob lem, but despite good precautions, we started having a series of lost time injuries. Some of these in juries were most extraordinary, and I beg your indulgence in al lowing me to cite one case. On a reservation of several thousand acres, with many sepa rated and isoloted operating buildings, sonitary facilities are sometimes centralized. The Indian people, who were used to the free dom of the prairie, could not see the sense of the white man's cus tom. This careless abandon re sulted in severe burns to an Indian Princess, who unfortu nately came too close to a steam outlet in a French drain. In fol lowing through on the investiga tion of this injury, the decision was that supervision had failed to propei ly impress on the employes our company's sanitary problems and the necessary rules. As a re sult of similar injuries; we decided that something must be done to impress our people with the neces sity of following tha established safety procedures. The J. I. T. system had been so successfuf production-wise that if was decided that all operations should adopt this method to sell safety procedures. It would be the responsibility of each foreman to moke a hazard breakdown onolysis, step to step, of each op eration on each job. This whole procedure soon became known as our Accident Prevention Training or A. P. T. program. After every job was analyzed, each operator was briefed on the safety aspects. It was the opera tor's responsibility to see that each helper was briefed on his re sponsibilities, and it was the duty of the foreman to see that the safety aspects of each job were periodically reviewed and that the safety job standards were kept up to date. These write-ups and check lists were in considerable detail as our injuries bad been caused by situations which we had not given sufficient emphasis in the face of the most serious hazardous operations, such as TNT lines. With each operator and opera tion being reviewed and studied every six months, our sofety record immediately improved from a. lost-time injury every two hun dred thousand exposure hours in 1944 to one every five and a hall million exposure hours in 194S. When the borrowed supervisory help came bock home to the com mercial plants after the war, this A. P. T. procedure, as we call it, was made a port of our commer cial operations. Anyone who had worked with it wos thorough!) sold on it because of the impres sion it made both on the super visory end the operating forces. Our present plan at the Phila delphia plant--we have 1,300 em ployes there--is to have each fore men cover the safety aspectt of 25