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SOURCES OF HELP FOR THE SAFETY MAN Injuries and Accident Causes in the Boilershop-Products Industry Work Injuries and Work-Infury Rates in Hospitals Injuries and Accident Causes in the FluidMilk Industry Injuries and Accident Causes in the Canning of Fruits and Vegetables Injuries and Accident Causes in Water-Suply Utilities Work Injuries and Work-Injury Rates in School Lunchrooms Work Injuries and Work-Injury Rates tn Logging Work Injuries and Work-Injury Rates in the Concrete Buck and Block Industry Work Injuries and Work-Injury Rates m Sawmills and Planing Mills Injuries and Injury Rates tn the Bottled SoftDrink Industry Injuries and Accident Causes in the Fabrica tion of Structural Steel and Architectural Metalwork The woman'8 bureau formulates stand ards to promote the welfare of women workers by compiling and analyzing statis tics on women workers, developing labor legislation for women, promoting labor standards in the states, and publishing tech nical information The bureau of apprenticeship formu lates and promotes labor standards for ap prentices The BUREAU OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITY, through the U S Employment Service, pro motes and develops the nation's public em ployment offices and assists states on their unemployment insurance problems The Bu reau also maintains a veterans' employment service WACE AND HOUR AND PUBLIC CONTRACTS division is charged with administering and enforcing the minimum wage and maximum hours regulations set up in the Fair Labor Standards and the Public Contracts Act The division administers the safety and health provisions of the Walsh-Healey Pub lic Contracts Act under regulations promul gated by the Secretary of Labor PRESIDENT'S CONFERENCE ON OCCUPATION AL safety This conference was first called by the President of the United States in March of 1049 Conferences have been held m 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1960, and 1962 At the conferences have been repre sentatives of management, labor, insurance companies, educational institutions, and safety organizations The purpose of the conference is to foster a common effort to expand the use of safe practices and the es tablishment of safe conditions for employed persons Special attention is given to the needs of the smaller plant The Federal Coverament's role in indus trial safety, as recommended by the confer ence, is to 1 Make national comparative statistical studies 2 Provide technical information based on fact finding 3 Provide information, based on the above studies, to states and pnvate organiza tions for the formulation of codes, regu lations, and practices 4 Assist state agencies m improving ad ministrative techniques so that codes and regulations which are adopted may be enforced 5 Advise states on enactment of proper legislation. 6 Train inspecting personnel of state agencies Proceedings of the conference have been published by the Department of Labor and distributed to conference members Pro ceedings include detailed committee reports, |major speeches, technical discussions, and summaries of conference recommendations and conclusions state safety conferences The Presi dent's Conference urged the various states to hold state conferences Each governor was requested to lead in getting all those interested into a common effort to reduce industrial accidents Other bureaus and offices of the Depart ment are office of the solicitor, opficb OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT SECRE TARY, OFFICE OF INFORMATION, PUBLICA TIONS, AND REPORTS, OFFICE OF MANPOWER, AUTOMATION, AND TRAINING, OFFICE OF WEL FARE AND PENSION PLANS, BUREAU OP EM PLOYEES' COMPENSATION, EMPLOYEES* COM PENSATION APPEALS BOARD, BUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL LABOR AFFAIRS, BUREAU OF LABOR-MANACEMENT REPORTS, BUREAU OF VETERANS RE-EMPLOYMENT RICHT8, THE president's COMMITTEE ON EMPLOYMENT OF THE HANDICAPPED, THE PRESIDENT'S COMMIT TEE ON EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY, and the president's committee on youth EMPLOYMENT 12-27