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S. These modern systems of lubrication are avail able in all types--from a manual cup wstent for a single bearing, to a eentrally-controlled, completely automatic system for one entire machine or an entire department. If vou have any lubrication problem, write us. Our entire engineering laboratory and staff are at your disposal. Keystone Lubricating Co., 21st, Clearfield & Lippincott Sts., Philadelphia, Penna. Established 1884. KEYSTONE iccmis nor When zvnttng advertisers, f'iease nteith>m XA'f'fONAL SAFETV XFAl'S National Safety News Published monthly in the interest of accident prevention and the health of industrial workers Carmax T. Fish, Editor (j, M, Hkiuis, A-'oa'atc FCIitor Sianllv H, Kkrsii.uv, Poster Editor C H. Miller. Advertising Manager ---------------------------- ----------- iL_____________________________________________ VOLUME XXI February, 1930 Number 5 In This Issue Am I Responsible for Accidents?--Ida M, Tarbcll................................ Taking Stock ot the Safety Movement--William //, Cameron............ How Far Can We Go With Through Streets ?--,/. S'. Raker................ Organizing Factory Traffic--William A. Bechill.................................... Motor Vehicle Deaths Mount to 31.300 in 1020---R. L. Forney............. Tunnels Separate Children from Traffic--E. B. Lettcrts........................ Annual Report of the Treasurer, National Safety Council................... The Supervisors Did Tt--Carman T. Fish.............................................. Keeping the Plant Dust Free--R. G. Marker.......................................... Electricity Can Serve Industry Safely--L. F. Wools!on........................ Spanish Publications Extend Safety's Influence---G. M. Brings........... Selling Safety to the Man on the Job--Herbert S. O'Brien................... The Government and Safety--Senator Robert F. Wagner..................... The Costly School of Experience--H. I. Burton..................................... Safer Newspaper Delivery Cuts Insurance Costs--Xorman R. Hoover. Glass--A Hazard or a Safeguard?............................................................ A Simple Remedy for a Common Hazard---Stanley C. Hunter............. They Welcome the Inspectors.................................................................... Do Your Foremen Realize Their Responsibilities r--C. C. Goings.......... Fire Hazards in the Power House---/!). G. Will........................................ 10 n 13 13 17 IB 20 21 25 33 U 38 10 13 lb 48 32 38 Departments Editorial ....................................................... 9 The Safety Exchange................................ 28 Industrial Health .......... 44 Xew Publications .......................................... 30 Personals ........... 63 The Honor Roll ............... 64 Accidental Deaths in the V. S. A ........ S4 Coming Events ........................................... S3 The Safety Poster Service........................ 89 Xew Members, X. S. C.... ....................96 With the Manufacturer ....................... 99 The Buyers' Service ...............................102 Contents of previous issues of the National Safety News may be found by consulting the Industrial Arts Index in your library. Copyright 1930 by National Safety Council. Printed in !'. A, Published monthly. Entered as second class matter June I, 1921, at the Post Office at Chicago. 111., under the act ot March 3, 1879, The subscription price to members far extra copies of the Nation At. Safety News t* $4,00 per year. >tngle copies, 40 cents, Reduced quantity prices for yearly subscriptions and single uupiei on request. Subscriptions are available only to members of the National Safety Council, Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. 18,350 copies of this issue were printed. National Safety Council Cooperative--Xon-Commercial--Xon-Political-- Xon-Sectartan 108 East Ohio Street, Chicago, U. S. A. Office of the Education Division, 1 Park Ave., New York City Officers of the National Safety Council 1929-30 Cs Eugene Pettibone, President. C, W. Bergquist, Vice-President for Finance. Earl F. Blank, Vice-President for Engi neering, Charles L, Close, Vice-President for Indus trial Safety. 0= T. Hellrauth, Vice-President for Mem bership, Charles E. Hill, Vice-President for Public Relations. Miller McCIintock, Vice-President for Pub- He Safety, George Opp, Vice-President for Territorial Councils. Albert W, Whitney, Vice-President for Ed- ucation. Dr. C.E. A, Winslow, Vice-President for Health, J. I. Banish, Treasurer. W, H, Cameron, Managing Director. . . ' t , ' , ( > EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Members at Large f. I. Banish, Consulting Engineer. C. W. Bergquist, Western Electric Co. Ear! F. Blank, Jones ft Laughlin Steel Corp. W.^ H. Cameron, Managing Director, Na tional Safety Council Charles L. Close, U. S. Steel Corp. F. A. Davidson, Chesebro Whitman Co. William C, Dickerman, American Locomo tive Co. N. F. Dougherty, General Motors Corp. H. B. Flowers, New Orleans Public Serv- ice, Inc. Daniel Harrington, U. S. Bureau of Mines. G, T. Hellmuth, Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad Co. Charles E. Hill, New York Central Lines. J. E. Long, The Delaware ft Hudson Co. Miller McCIintock, Erskine Bureau, Harv ard University. R. B. Morley, Industrial Accident Prevention Associations. George Opp, The Detroit Edison Co. C. E. Pettibone, American Mutual Liabiltty Insurance Co, Robbins B, Stoeckel, Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, State of Connecticut. J. P. Sutton, Ohio Oil Co. Albert W. ^Whitney, Acting General Man age, National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters. Dr. C.-E. A. Winslow, Yale Medical School. ' ! | ! | I [ . I J f Representing Territorial Safety Councils H. O. Allison, Western Pennsylvania. Norman Anderson, Cleveland. T. G, Brabston, Birmingham. Ancil D. Brown, Syracuse. Charles E. Redfern, Providence. T\ J. Strickier, Kansas City. I I i Representing Sections Melvin W. Bridges, Electric Railway. Will Cooper, Food. Charles F. Larson, Steam Railroad. , Edward H. Sykes, Accident Prevention Equipment Manufacturers. Arthur M. Tode, Marine. John L, Vandegrift, PubHc Utilities. Edward P. Warner, Aeronautical. Past Presidents Robert W. Campbell Arthur T. Morey Lew R. Palmer Charles P. Tolman Arthur H. Young Marcus A. Dow Lewis A. DeBlois Carl B. Auel Charles B. Scott Walter G. King Homer E. Niesx Henry A. Reninger fv/irnury, 10$0 etJBRALUN 0,, 8....... oar Whevepeopleyfijlkt FERALXJN is iron with abrasive grain embedded in the wearing surface at the time of casting. The grain projects slightly above the metal and provides the non-slip quality that has made this type of tread the standard for use under almost any condition of service. 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Izal is found to be very satisfactory for use in washrooms and lavatories of industrial plants, railway stations, school houses, shops, office buildings, etc. It serves as disinfectant, antiseptic and deodorant, Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, III. Please send me a sample of Izal, and a copy of your catalog, "The Industrial Medicine Chest." Mail tha'coupon'for tampla (IMrdtt Name .................................. Address .......................... Company .... .................... LABORATORIES NORTH CHICAGO, ILL. New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Toronto, St, Loun, Bombay. When writing advertisers, please mention .VATIOXAL SAFETV XEU'A vnu.'ME xxi National Safety News Published by the Rational Safety Council 1930Chicago. Illinois, February, number -j The 1930 Congress City their chief reward in making the industries, streets and homes safer. The actual value of the time contributed ITTSBURGH will be the scene of the Nineteenth P Annual Safety Congress, and the date will be the week of September t!9 to October 3. After con by these volunteer safety workers in one year's time amounts to many thousands of dollars and their service is equivalent to the income from a substantial endowment. sidering the resources of several cities for accommo dating such an immense gathering the executive com mittee of the National Safety Council has announced this decision. The choice has been due in part to recognition of the support given to the safety move ment bv the city's industries and to tire genuine cor diality of the invitation extended by representatives of This generous help enables the Council to furnish its services to members at an extremely low cost, and the dollars expended for membership have a large purchasing power. It is the revenue from membership dues, from miscellaneous publications and from advertising that finances the direction of services and the extension of safety work to unorganized fields. the city's industrial, commercial and civic interests. The Council is always glad to be of assistance to non Pittsburgh is conveniently located from the stand members but the amount of service it can provide is lim point of railroad connection and a survey of the local ited. In fairness to those who are contributing their time hotels reveals ample accommodations for out-of-town and financial support, the major privileges must be. re delegates. While the city lacks some of the conven stricted to members. The Council is in business to pre iences which have made Chicago a popular Congress vent accidents, not to make money, but the bulk of its city, it has the essential facilities for staging a succes- revenues must be returned to members in service. Mis ful congress, and not the least of these is a warm sionary work on a large scale can be financed only by feeling of friendship for the safety movement. gifts made specifically for that purpose. The Council has no desire to monopolize safety work; Our Cooperative Structure it welcomes the participation of other organizations in the movement. There is urgent need for every individual and every organization to put forth the maximum of safety OOPERATION in the broadest sense of that much- effort. C used word was the principle on which the National Safety Council was founded in 1913. Accident preven A Vast Safety Audience tion was not entirely new even then. For many years a few progressive companies had been making efforts to remove accident causes, and some state governments had enacted legislation for the protection of the workers. But these efforts were widely scattered and there was no cen tral organization to mold public opinion or to direct inves tigations of accident causes and remedies. In other words, there was a lack of cooperative effort. To fill that need the National Safety Council was organized. The headquarters office of the National Safety Council has no experience of its own, yet it has available the ex perience of thousands of members, yielding a total sum of knowledge which could not be duplicated in even the largest laboratory. HE second Universal Safety Series, just concluded, Thas revealed a vast and interested audience for safety messages. Just how many thousands of persons listened in on these weekly broadcasts will never be known but the amount of "fan mail" received by the Na tional Safety Council and the National Broadcasting Company and its associated stations is ample evidence of the popularity of this feature. So favorably was the first series received by the radio public that the National Broadcasting Company offered its facilities for a second campaign and the number of stations enrolled was exceeded only by a few of the most popular entertainment features on the air. Individuals, corporations, associations and govern Among the nationally known speakers of the second mental bodies work with the Council in conducting re series were Jane Addams, Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, and search in accident prevention and in industrial health. Ida M. Tarbell. Talks were interspersed with human Each conducts its studies in a specialized field and the interest playlets dealing with various phases of safety, combined results are made available through the Council. and thousands of reprints of these broadcasts have been If these separate units which comprise the forces of the distributed. safety movement were to work independently, their The gratifying feature of both the first and second combined influence would be far less than that of their cooperative effort. More than one thousand individuals are serving on voluntary committees of the National Safety Council. They give their services without remuneration, finding series was the enthusiastic response of the public. Many expressed their appreciation not only of the series but also of the movement for greater safety, and several let ters told pathetic stories of homes that had suffered tragic loss through accidents. 9 Ill NATIONAL SAl-nry SlUl'S Am I Responsible for Accidents? By IDA M. TARBELL HERE was a time--not o far T back--when accidents were gen erally classified as "Visitations When you get hurt do you look for sympathy or do you assume of the Lord." Science has corrected your share of the blame? Miss most minds on that point. Outside of Tarbell, who is famous as an the people who still believe the world author and student of human af is flat and those who contend that fairs, presents some pointed Genesis disproves evolution, accidents are conceded to be the work of human ignorance, carelessness or stupidity. thoughts on personal responsi bility. This article was the con cluding address of the Second Universal Safety Series sponsor This is a long stride on the road to ed by the National Broadcasting safety but a second stride of almost Company and the National equal importance is developing in the Safety Council. individual a sense of his responsibility, not only to keep himself out of danger but to do nothing that will put others in danger. As things stand now, most of us instinctively deny that we are in any way to blame if we are injured or if we are concerned in an accident where others are injured. The other fellow is always at fault. Yet analyze almost any of these ac cidents and you have to admit if you are candid that at least a fraction of the fault usually lies with you. I am not basing this comment on what I have seen happening to other people but rather on what has hap pened to me personally. I was passing through one of those temporary corridors which our city authorities rightly require erected over Our news columns are full of ex amples of accidents like this of mine, due to the fact that the safety sense has not been developed to a point where the victim instinctively sees and avoids danger. Possibly you remem ber Bobby Leach--a dare-devil who fifteen or twenty years ago thrilled the country with his performances--one of them, perhaps the most spectacular, was going over Niagara Falls in a barrel and coming out alive. But Bobby Leach soon after this, jauntily walking down the street, slipped on a piece of orange peel and had a fall which caused his death. What was his share in his death? I suppose we will agree that the major sidewalks where buildings are being responsibility rested on the ill-man demolished. The corridor was dark. nered and inconsiderate person who I walked into it without attention to threw the peel on the sidewalk; but where I was going. There was a hole the habit of watching one's step is a in the walk--I tripped, fell and broke primary responsibility of the individ my wrist. ual who wants to pass through this Who Was to Blame? ' world sound of limb and to die a nat ural death. Bobby Leach did not How far was I responsible? The have it. city authorities certainly were negli One of the greatest safety rules that gent in leaving a dangerous public has ever been devised, if not the great walk unlighted. But if my safety sense est. runs: "Show me where an acci had been properly developed, i would dent can happen and I will show you not have walked absentmindedlv into a where an accident will happen." It dark passage. Or, entering, f would has come to be a basic rule--in the have had in mind the possibility of safety education which goes on in all stepping into something or tripping our better industrial plants. It has over something. Clearly, I was as been stressed in some places until a much to blame in the matter as those body of men has been built up who al who left the corridor dark and the most unconsciously recognize when walk broken. the ladder which they are to ascend is properly placed, when the hammer or the wrench that they are using is placed where it may fall on the head of somebody below--'responsibility for their own lives and the lives of their fellow workers is an element of daily practice--a factor of their character as workers. This is, I think, true in practically the whole factory world. Unhappily, in one of our most dangerous indus tries, that of mining, the recognition of responsibility is not so general. There are well developed methods of making mines safe, but in parts of the country they are still flouted. There are still mine owners in this country who are too selfish or too ignorant to make safety a first consideration; and there are states where the legislatures are so backward, so indifferent to the well being of their own citizenship that they will not force mine owners to equip their mines with every known safety device. Only a few weeks ago 59 men, most of them heads of families, were killed unnecessarily in an Oklahoma mineone of the legislatures of the Union, still backward in looking after its peo ple. Who can deny that this legis lature as well as the mine owners were not accomplices in this awful murder of useful men? Irresponsibility at Home But it is not in industry that we find the largest irresponsibility toward ac cidents. Curiously enough, it is in the American home. In 1928 there were 24,000 fatal accidents in the homes of this country. Nearly 10,000 were deaths from falls. Reasonable caution would have prevented most of them. Fire, electricity, benzine, kerosene, gasoline are still handled with ignor ant confidence by hundreds of thou sands of women. It seems as if we would never learn what a stray spark from an unscreened fireplace may do. One of the most tragic encounters of my life was with a young chuple who had gone out for the evening, leaving an unscreened fire in the nursery (Continued on page 74) February, I0$t) 11 Taking Stock of the Safety Movement The Annual Report of the Managing Director, National Safety Council By WILLIAM H. CAMERON T IS now eighteen months since I I presented a report to the Coun cil membership, because of the The fundamental, all-important question is, "how much do we care ?" In spite of our faith in the ultimate change made in our fiscal year. Presi control of accidents, we cannot help dent Reninger's address to the mem asking ourselves why progress in ac bers at the Chicago Congress pre cident prevention and in other social sented broadly and in detail the ac and economic reforms is so slow. tivities and accomplishments of the Why should so relatively few per Council during the year. It is unnec sons have to struggle to convince essary now to repeat these facts and employers and others that the hu figures. They will be found in the mane work of preventing accidents October issue of the National Safety is also of tremendous economic im News and in the Congress Transac portance -- that the needless sacri tions. It may be of service to you, fice of life in our national develop however, if I review our immediate ment is a social loss and an economic objectives and the progress of the waste ? past 18 months. In this age of the airplane, the Our first question must always be radio, the automobile and a multi --are we stopping accidents--is tude of other wonderful inventions, there evidence that fewer people are it seems inconceivable that the con being killed and maimed--is this as science and judgment of our people sociation effort worth while--what should fail in the conservation of have we to show for our cooperative human life. Surely when the ma work ? jority of our people understand the Automobile accidents have spoiled causes of accidents and realize the the record and make it impossible to possibilities for their reduction, the show statistical progress in accident present accidental death rate will be prevention for the country as a cut in two. ' whole. However, our estimates of It is sometimes stated that the in all the accidents, based on fairly re dustrial safety problem has been liable statistics for industrial and solved. This is far from true. Acci street accidents, show that accident dents can occur from so many causes control is definite in many industries, and under such an infinite variety railways and communities. The com of conditions that we must persist bined totals may be discouraging, for many years to record our ex but there are many signs of progress. periences and establish standards of Never before have so many people protection. We must also bring been studying the safety problem. about such a conviction of the need That is the significant fact about all for thorough safety education that of our efforts during the past sixteen it will be universally applied and ac years. Thousands upon thousands cepted. of people are convinced that acci dents can be stopped; their experi ence is convincing others. The vir Do We Care Enough? tual elimination of accidents in many W'hen shall we control fire losses? places for long periods of time brings When shall we have speedy dis conviction that avoidance of accident pensation of justice in the courts? occurence and recurrence depends And when shall we stop accidents? upon a knowledge of causes. What The answer is "when we care we need now is an intensive applica enough!" Safety progress is so def tion of known measures, together inite and convincing that the task with diligence and ingenuity in-de of the Council is plain. All the ef vising new remedies and combating forts we could make would not be new hazards. too much to pay for the saving of a single life, if the many agencies now convinced that accidents can be prevented will persist in their tasks, the problem will be solved. The Council has learned many les sons in sixteen years; its members have learned how to work together and to help one another. Numer ically the membership is increasing; in fact, this year stands out above all others. The leadership has been strengthened; there are now more willing and active cooperators than ever before in the history of the Council, The income spent in activi ties is larger than ever before. As an institution, the Council now has as large resources and is making as much concerted effort as any other cooperative society in America. For the sixth time in sixteen years the offices are being moved to larger quarters. The staff has grown; the Council is doing a larger business in a bigger way. Its business prob lems alone are a large tax on our ingenuity and time. Leading Public Opinion A recent enumeration of the Coun cil's activities and publications re quired six sheets of 8j4xll paper, typed in close lines. These activi ties are all well organized under the jurisdiction of elected officers and committees. The job of the Council has always been to lead public opin ion for safety. Its every action looks toward the education of our one hundred and twenty million popula tion intensively and directly through the membership. The Council is tow in communication with every agency that can render a service for safety. It does not conduct activi ties of its own that can be trans ferred to other people, but it is the activating, energizing body for na tional accident prevention. It has assumed the duties of underwriting and backing up the national safety movement.' It will never be satisfied until every governmental agency, every dub and society, every busi 13 NATIONAL SAFETY XEIVS ness institution, every social organi meetings, special studies, and an its income. Plans have been made zation recognizes its own potential swers to inquiries of members. to secure additional money for the power to convince people that acci intensive service to the eastern expansion of every department for dents can be stopped. safety councils and to the members the next ten years. We must have I feel that it will be of inter est to you if I sketch briefly a few of the new projects and activities undertaken since my last report. The message of safety has reached multi tudes of people through every known publicity channel and we-'must ac knowledge with thanks the help and cooperation of the daily press, the trade, technical and other journals, the news syndicates and the thou sands of other publicists and radio speakers who have lent their re sources to the Council's life saving crusade. A Vast Audience Thirty-five associated radio sta tions cooperated with the Nation al Broadcasting Company in pro viding the facilities for two series of Universal Safety broadcasts in the United States and abroad. In the first series thirteen addresses were given by men who are leaders in American life to a weekly audience of 20,000,000 people. The second series now in progress alternates ad dresses with dramatic safety playlets and becomes increasingly popular. It is influencing thousands of people who never before gave a serious thought to safety. The establishment of five new sections within the Council is inten sifying the interest of specialists in safety and sets up facilities to co ordinate their efforts. In the Indus trial Safety Division, Aeronautical, in and around New York City has been continuously provided by the New York Office, established just prior to the New York Congress in 1928, This experiment has proved successful and demonstrates the need for similar offices throughout our industrial centers. We have made progress in reaching the socalled minor industries not yet or ganized into sections of the National Safety Council through a series of research studies, nine of which have already been published, covering ac cident problems of these industries. This new project contemplates the completion of one or more safe prac tices pamphlets for each of approxi mately 300 industries. Recently a Spanish edition of the booklet "Shop Safety" was printed and widely distributed among our members in Spanish speaking coun tries. This was followed bv a print ing of one of our Petroleum Safe Practices Pamphlets, also in Span ish. For the first time in our history we have reached out in this way to influence directly the workers of other countries. At the Eighteenth Annual Con gress in Chicago last year the first safety talking moving picture ever produced was shown before an audi ence of 2000 people to demonstrate the possibilities which lie before us in modernizing our educational pro gram. Membership Has Increased more educational material, a larger staff, and a larger number of devoted members. We need branch offices in every state of the Union. We need trained speakers. We need en gineering researches on which to base recommendations for every in dustry. The psychological causes of accidents also offer a promising field for further research. We need a division to study and help with legislative promotion; more safety motion pictures; more interpretative material. We need to establish community safety organizations in every community ot the country ; we need money to carry out our plans for home safety; we need the best brains and influential moral leaders to assist in the strug gle to have safety understood and accepted by all those whose lives are likely to be prematurely lost through avoidable accidents. I have confidence in the attain ment of material progress. We want it and we are determined to have it. But is moral progress as certain? A plea for safety is essentially a plea for justice, for fair play, and for the rights of all. Here lies the task of the National Safety Council. We are working to improve living con ditions, to prolong life, to make jus tice triumphant. We must make our new fiscal year of 1930 a better year through a wider understanding of the problem of stopping avoidable accidents. Refrigeration, and Accident Pre vention Equipment Manufacturers Sections are now formally organized and functioning. A new departure has been made in the Public Safety Division with the organization of the Street and Highway Traffic Section and the Statistics Section. Another progressive step in the development of Council activities is the creation of our Industrial Health Division under the direction of an advisory committee and a vice-presi dent. Two industrial health special ists have been added to the head quarters staff and a series of studies of industrial health problems has been inaugurated through the prep aration of the first ten of a special I have already mentioned a splen did increase in membership. Three field men have been added to the council staff to discuss the council service with employers and to en courage them to accept their respon sibility in accident prevention. An animated traveling exhibit to dis play Council publications and to in terpret service privileges has been used extensively at trade association conventions and other gatherings. And so our many meetings and publications have been continued and improved during the past eigh teen months. The Congress Trans actions for 1929 have been distri buted. A constant effort is being made to improve present organized Legion Post Wins Award for Safety Activity CTIVITY in the promotion of A.safety won for Sarlo-Sharp Post No. 368 of the American Legion at Melrose Park, 111., the bronze plaque for first place in the Legion's "Hall of Fame" for 1929. This award, which was inaugurated in 1.927, is presented annually to the post which is judged to have rendered the greatest service to humanity during the year,, Sarlo-Sharp Post was the first post to place the American Legion road signs along the highways and series of pamphlets on such subjects territorial councils and to start new at railroad crossings in its commun as "Physical Examination," "Lead," ones. The engineering and scientific ity. The most notable activity was "Health Supervision in Industry," problems are being attacked through a state-wide safety poster and slo and "Dust." Continuous publicity committees and specialists; the gan contest in which 3,700 schools on industrial health problems is se schools and other teaching bodies are participated. The details of this cured in the Council's publications being readied as never before. contest were described in the Na through a monthly News-Letter to Of course, the activities and in tional Safety News for September, 900 industrial physicians, through fluence of the Council are limited by 1989. February, ibjij 13 An example of injudicious selection of a through street which here crosses a more heavily traveled thoroughfare. Drivers on the more heavily traveled street resent being obliged to stop where there is little cross traffic. How Far Can We Go with Through Streets? By j. S. BAKER Engineer, Public Safety Division, National Safety Council of traffic control. They must be care such signs must conform to the rec- Fewer and better through streets are needed in most tully limited and chosen with re- ummendations for nation-wide unigard to their relation to each othei fortuity sponsored by the joint and to other streets. They must be Board of Interstate Highways and cities. When poorly selected, marked and enforced, through streets hinder traf planned to meet certain specific traific needs, rather than the wishes of any group of people who want less responsibility tor careful driving on the American Engineering Council, They should preferably be illuminated to command attention day or night in competition with a multi fic and fail to prevent acci dents. file routes they customarily follow, tude of advertising signs of one kind Nor are through streets the in- or another. In a city, this means that expensive means of traffic control the illuminating system must be al- that some people believe. To be- most as effective as that used on stop gin with, signs must be erected and go signals, and that too much ORE than any other form of M traffic control, "through streets" have been seized up wherever stops are required, and dependence should not be placed on on by temporizing administrators to solve traffic problems. There are two reasons for this: first, through streets are deceptively easy to establish; and, second, they are easily manipu lated to quiet loud demands for bet ter traffic conditions bv pleasing cer tain people. To many city governments it seems that giving the right of way to vehicles on "through" streets-- or at most requiring vehicles on in tersecting streets to slow down or stop--will speed up traffic and re duce accidents; hence, an ordinance is passed naming a long list of ar terial highways and giving vehicles on them special privileges. Then the city council turns to other matters, feeling that traffic difficulties have been satisfactorily disposed of, In due time, complaints come in from people who must cross these through streets; it is discovered that places where drivers must stop are so num erous as to make enforcement im possible; and if police records are in good shape, an accident increase is probably shown. Ultimately the through streets are found to be not such a simple means A through-street system planned for San Antonio, Tex., consisted of a loop about the business district connecting the downtown ends of radial thoroughfares. These few through streets do not penetrate the business district. H SAT10SAL SAFETY .VEITS O 4-Way Stop Isolated Stop Intersection , Slow Intersection j City .Line J***' r+ j/ 4*^ rn-- j\ #\ - > *. i\ I ^ r A v. J7 / `V v, /% / / r/> map shows only through streets. Such an aimless sys tem creates a typical enforce ment problem, and fails to ac complish the purpose for which it was intended. r-e % automobile headlights or street lights. Good signs cost money; for example, a recently developed neonlube stop sign is said to cost ap proximately $150 installed, and re flecting signs may cost as much as $50. To the original costs of signs must be added annual charges for illuminating energy, maintenance, and accidental damage. There may also be some cost for pavement markings where they are used to supplement the signs. Police supervision also costs money. In a city where enforce ment is reasonably good, a police official recently stated that the man power per intersection required for the patrol and enforcement of through streets was the equivalent of two days per year for a motorcycle officer, and two or three more per year for a foot-patrolman. Roughly, on this basis, the cost of enforcement would be $20 per year per intersec tion. It is thus clear that if through streets are to be properly established and supervised, they must be used sparingly, if for no other than eco nomic reasons. Every driver has his own opinion about which streets should be through streets, and he usually pre fers those which he most frequently uses. From a study of through street systems of many cities, one has. ample evidence that they were se lected on the basis of opinion alone, especially in the smaller mid-western cities. It seems apparent that some one suggested that Main Street be made a through street; someone else named Capital Avenue ; a third, State Street, and so on. There being no objections, these thoroughfares are made through streets and soon the citizens find that the law requires them to stop, in cer tain sections of the city, at each of three or four, or sometimes even five, consecutive streets. Few drivers will do this, and many soon form the habit of ignoring the stop regulation. The result is an increase rather than a decrease in traffic hazards, for a driver on a through street expects vehicles crossing to stop, and yet the driver on the cross street makes little attempt to do so. An ordi nance creating an excessive number of stop intersections makes enforce ment impossible. A careful study of actual records shows that the number of accidents per year on any street is practically unaffected bv the establishment of these stop provisions along it. There are fewer collision accidents but more pedestrian accidents. Further more, encouraging high speed traf fic on through streets or giving ve hicles on them a permanent right of way seems to increase accidents. Any material reduction in accidents accompanying the establishment of through streets normally occurs in parallel routes which are relieved of some traffic. Naturally, poorly se lected. marked, and enforced through streets will have a less favorable experience than normal, and a sharp increase in accidents might well he expected under such conditions. Likewise, the unusually well planned and supervised through streets prob ably reduce accidents, even on the through streets themselves. These difficulties in the application of through streets indicate how far we can go with them. The great majority of cities which now have through streets should tnake them fewer and better. Cities which have not used this form of traffic control should understand that its adoption will not remove the necessity of studying the city's traffic require ments from the ground up, and of using through streets only where they can successfully accomplish what they are intended to. Tt is es pecially important not to carry through streets into business dis tricts where the traffic volume is so great that vehicles in one direction must be stopped to create gaps for the passage of vehicles moving across their path. This is the field of the automatic traffic signal. Congress Report Used for Safety Handbook EPORTS of delegates of United R Traction Companv. Capitol Dis trict Transportation Company. Inc., and K. L, W. M\. Inc., of Albany. N, Y., who attended the Electric Rail way Sessions of the Eighteenth An nual Safety Congress, have printed a vest pocket booklet. The report classifies the points brought out in the papers and discus sions according to the responsibilities of management, supervisors, operators and other employees, and the training of operators. The booklet also con tains a message of appreciation of the work of the safety committees signed by E. Murphy, general manager of the affiliated companies. !',hr//,ir\\ /'-'iW 15 Organizing Factory Traffic By WILLIAM A. BECHILL Safety Engineer, Chrysler Corporation them anything new. (They did not drive again for our company.,) Traffic in a busy factory dup licates on a smaller scale the These rules are enforced by the safety department, by the plant pro tection department, and by the safety committee men in each de partment. Drivers found breaking these rules are brought in and talked to. In most cases that is all the discipline needed, but some are laid off for a week or two; others are discharged -- depending on the of fense and the attitude of the man. conditions of the street. Order The most important step in pre ly plant arrangement, careful training of drivers and main venting accidents in connection with factory traffic has been in educating the new man. Before going to work tenance of equipment are every driver must satisfy the safety needed department that he is a good driver --whether he operates an electric truck, a tractor, a passenger auto mobile or an automobile truck. If he assures us that he can drive and HE first step in organizing fac Ttory traffic at our plant was to re-arrange aisles and roadways knows something about a car or a truck, he is given a rule book and asked to study it. When he claims in and around the plant, to insthaell knows all the rules he is ques the necessary stop lights and stop tioned, and if he passes with a good signs, and to enforce the rules to percentage he is put to work. If he keep the aisles and roadways clear. does not, he is sent back to the em The next step was compiling a ployment office as unfit for driving. rule book. This book was compiled through information received from transportation chiefs, from safety engineers in other plants, and from city and state codes. The suggestions for safe operation presented in the following para graphs are based on the "Chrysler Safety Rules for All Drivers'': After receiving the management's approval of these rules, we called in every person driving on company business. Each man was made to pass an examination by the safety department, (f he passed with a good percentage, he was allowed to continue driving. A number of them did not drive again. Some of them had poor vision and some had other physical handicaps which made them unsafe drivers. A few of the drivers regarded the whole procedure as a lot of red tape. Selecting the Driver First, we must consider the driv er's qualifications. Only reliable, temperate men, with good eyesight, hearing and general health are hired for this work. Physical handicaps may mean a serious menace to the lives of the driver and others. Often a man is in a tight place with the truck where aisles are narrow and he must act quickly. If hampered bv physical defects he may not be able to do so. They didn't care whether they knew Each driver is charged with the the rules or not, saying they had proper care of his equipment and is driven all their lives, and that the responsible for any damage to it. safety department could not teach We try to make him feel as if the equipment were his own and we Abstract of a paper before the Engineering Di* vilion, Detroit Industrial Safety Council. spend some time on this point when he is hired. Next day when he goes out to his foreman he hears it again, and still more attention is given to the subject when the man goes to the garage to get his vehicle!' Speed limits are important. In open aisles or roadways the driver must be able to stop inside of eight feet. In narrow aisles, congested areas, around machinery, or in stock areas, he must be able to stop with in three feet The speed limit inside the plant is ordinarily eight miles an hour, but if conditions make it necessary to slow down to two or three miles, that speed becomes the limit. Around the outside roadway the limit is twelve miles an hour. Most of the trucks are equipped with governors set at twelve miles an hour. Speeding and reckless or careless driving are punishable with a layoff or discharge. No Passengers Carried Under no circumstances does any one ride with the driver. We have a record of several cases where men have been thrown from trucks when the brakes were applied. .Men stand ing on electric trucks sometimes lose their balance and are thrown when a truck turns a corner. When entering or leaving a door in any building, entering a main aisle or roadway, or rounding a blind corner, the driver must limit his speed to two miles an hour and blow his horn. Stop signs have been erected at many of the doorways in the plant. The horn must also he sounded when approaching anyone from the rear, and the operator must have his vehicle under control so he can make an emergency stop. This is necessary to prevent rear-end col lisions in case the driver ahead should make an emergency stop. Often a pedestrian will dart out into the aisle from between racks and the driver must make a quick stop. Iti SAHOSAL SAFETY SEU\< Daily inspection of equipment is vital. At the start ot each shift the driver must inspect brakes, steering gear, horn, battery, the gas, water in the car, and lights. That must be lone outside of the garage, before the driver enters the plant or goes out on the road. Mechanical defects must be reported at once, and the driver is instructed to refuse to op erate the vehicle until repairs are made. ** Trucks or tractors must not be operated two abreast, and they must not pass unless one is standing still or going in the opposite direction. In either case the driver must be sure of clearance. Allowing trucks to run two abreast provides a temp tation to race and creates the hazard of sideswiping. Electric power and lift trucks must always be operated with the load in front of the operator, except when he cannot see over the load Backing is permitted only in turning around or getting out of a "hole." We feel that the man can watch the load better in front of him, and can watch the corners of the rack or skid so that he will not sideswipe anyone standing in the aisle or hit any equipment as he turns a corner. Dangerous Loads Carrying loose material on the table of a jitney should be avoided; it should be loaded in boxes, barrels or other containers, or on skits or racks. Loads are dangerous if: 1. Top-heavy. 2. Projecting. 3. Not held securely. 4. Unequally distributed. If the driver feels that a load is unsafe, he, and no one else, is the authority. If he refuses to move it, the foreman must pile the material to satisfy the driver. - A high-lift truck should never be operated with a loaded platform ele vated. Those who have punch press departments in their plants know that job setters and drivers fre quently move dies and other loads with the platforms elevated. Loads are frequently top-heavy and may turn over, or the dies may slide off the platform when the brakes are ap plied. Each driver is expected to know the carrying capacity of his truck and to avoid loads that are too heavy for it. We have had little trouble in this respect, however. When an electric truck is left unattended the control handle should be removed. I remember one instance several years ago when a laborer took a chance with an elec tric truck from which the driver had failed to remove the control handle. The man could not control the truck and was pinned between the truck and a packing case and spent four weeks in the hospital. Operators of gasoline-powered ve hicles must keep both hands on the steering wheel, except when shifting gears, that the vehicle will be under control at all times. Some operators may be expert one-hand drivers at night, but that kind of driving is not tolerated in the plant. Repairs to vehicles must be made at the garage, not by the driver. Our drivers are not jacks of all trades and they are not expected to make the repairs for which the garages are responsible. Electric truck opera tors are not permitted to tamper with the control fingers of the truck. That is an electrician's job. Slippery spots in the plant require careful driving and the driver should slow down when approaching them. I have seen trucks go off the loading dock and skid into machines. No one was hurt in any of these mis haps, but skidding is always danger ous. A truck should never be driven on a wet or slippery ramp. Before entering an intersection, a driver must come to a full stop and blow his horn. This applies wher ever two aisles cross, regardless of whether or not there is a stop light or stop" sign. He must slow down and sound his horn before turning corners, and is warned to be partic ularly careful around machinery and crowded spaces. A few short blasts of the horn are more effective than a single long blast. Extra care is required in passage ways when employees are entering or leaving the plant, during lunch time, or when shifts are changing. At noon or at quitting time, when the plant is working overtime, we send all our trucks to the garage fifteen minutes before the whistle blows. That gives the men fifteen minutes to service the gas tanks on the gasoline trucks, and with elec tric trucks, time to change the bat teries or give them a fairly good charge, as well as allowing time to inspect brakes and other parts of the truck. Look Before You Back "Look behind before backing out from under a load" is an important precaution. Many an accident has occurred when an operator has backed into something he wasn't expecting. fen feet behind is the minimum -ate distance when following an other truck. This allows ample space between vehicles when the driver ahead finds it necessary to make a sudden stop. " We are considering putting guards at the rear of all pedals. We have one truck so equipped and it is proving satisfactory. However, I have seen some pedal guards that seemed rather clumsy. If a man were to meet with an accident he might not be able to get away from his truck. * Riding between trucks and trail ers is forbidden. In the past several accidents occurred while men were riding on the tongues oetween ve hicles. We have equipped our trail ers with riding steps or riding seats, thus eliminating the reason for any man getting between two trailers to ride. Training New Drivers One of our most important rules is that permitting only qualified and licensed drivers to operate tractors and trucks. The driver must allow no one to use his truck unless he can show a license. Our garage men will not allow a truck to leave the garage unless the man has a license. In that way we prevent the opera tion of trucks by die-setters, jobsetters, assistant foreman and others who are not qualified. If men can drive and satisfy us that they are capable, we give them licenses to drive. To maintain a force of qualified drivers we have each department send us two men to be trained. They receive training licenses and are trained by the regular truckers. If a regular trucker is off work, he has an experienced man who knows the shop and stock to put on the truck, thus eliminating the risks of an un trained substitute. It also gives the foreman an opportunity to increase the pay of the man he is breaking in, should he he made a regular truck driver, and it gives an old em ployee promotion. That is always an incentive to good work. The problem of factory traffic is not confined to the trucks and their operators. You may blame the driv ers, but the pedestrian is the worst offender of all. He will dart out into the aisleways, from behind equipment, and from between racks. Every day I hear a number of com plaints from employees: "That blankety-blank fool ran right in front of me--he did this,.and he did that." When you get right down to the facts, you will find that the trucker was not at fault. February, 193)1 17 Motor Vehicle Deaths Mount to 31,500 in 1929 Death Rates by Population and by Cars Registered Show Increase Over 1928 By R. L. FORNEY Statistician, National Safety Council AUTOMOBILE FATALITIES IN THE UNITED STATES HE century's third decade closed Twith a terrific increase in motor vehicle deaths, on the basis of re Excluding Collisions With Heavier Vehicles ports which, though incomplete, are sufficient to justify a fairly close esti mate. Data from four sources carefully j analyzed by the National Safety Coun- j ci! indicate that there were about 31,500 deaths in 1949 resulting from motor vehicle accidents. The estimate includes all types of accidents where automobiles or motorcycles were in volved. This total represents an increase of approximately 3,500 deaths over 1928 when 27,966 persons lost their lives in motor vehicle accidents. The indicated increase---between 12.5 and 13.0 per cent--is larger than has occurred in any recent year and is in sharp con trast to the 1929 increase of only 8 per cent in registrations of motor vehicles. Only a small part of the 3,500 in crease in deaths for 1929 can be ex plained by the population increase, which, according to most reliable esti mates, amounted to only slightly more than 1 per cent. The death rate per 100,000 population, therefore, in creased from 20.8 in 1928 to an esti mated 23.2 in 1929, these rates exclud ing motorcycle accidents and collisions of automobiles with heavier vehicles. The comparatively small increase in registered automobiles;'also caused a sharp increase in the death rate on a registration basis. This rate, which decreased from 157.4 deaths per 100,000 cars registered in 1918 to 95.5 in 1926, jumped to 100.2 in 1927, to 101.7 in 1928 and to an estimated 106.6 in 1929. This is the highest rate, on a registration basis, that has been recorded since 1923, when the motor vehicle accident situation became so bad that President Hoover, then Secre tary of Commerce, was moved to call the First National Conference on Street and Highway Safety. The 1929 increase of 3,500 deaths is the largest that has ever been recorded in the United States or any other coun try. The percentage increase, while greater than in any recent year, is not so large as in the years when the first large increases in motor vehicle pro duction and registration began. In the short space of 10 years motor vehicle deaths have now increased ap proximately threefold. In 1919 the grand total was 11,154 and in the first year of the decade, 13,557. In 1919 motor vehicle deaths represented only 15 per cent of all accidental deaths; in 1929 approximately 32 per cent. The four primary sources of data mentioned above and used in comput ing the 1929 estimate are: t. Direct reports to the National Safety Council from registrars of vital statistics in 39 states and the Dis trict of Columbia. 2. Reports on the mortality experience among- the 18,000,000 policy-holders of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. 3. Reports compiled by the United States Census Bureau on motor vehicle deaths in 78 large cities. 4. Monthly reports during 1929 to the National Safety Council from ap proximately 100 cities. Thirty-six states and the District of Columbia recently reported comparable figures for 1928 and 1929, most of them for 11 months in each year, which showed about 11 per cent more deaths in 1929 than in the previous year. These states represented a popu lation of approximately 100,000,000 persons, or over 80 per cent of our en tire population. The 11 per cent increase indicated on these provisional reports is almost certain to be exceeded bv the final re ports because there is uniformly some delay in the filing of death certificates with the state registrar. Therefore, whereas the 1928 reports submitted were final, the 1929 summaries were in most cases provisional, subject to later increase. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company has completed tabulations-of experience among its policy holders and reports an increase in motor ve hicle deaths of 13.3 per cent in 1929, (Continued on page 81) 18 WrtlriSAl. SAFETY .Yf: fils' Tunnels Separate Children from Traffic *' By E. B. LEFFERTS Manager, Public Safety Department, Automobile Club of Southern',California LL heavily traveled street cross A ings in a city are "grade cross- In 1924 Los Angeles built a ings" in a certain sense. There very great majority of accidents the first tunnel for the pro occur to pedestrians and to motor tection of school children. ists. Only by the installation of un derground passages or overhead bridges can absolute safety be as To date 46 tunnels have been built and are in constant use. sured, and this follows no matter how carefully and prayerfully city authorities may work to bring about immunity from casualties at such points through other means. Signals, traffic officers, ordinances, bells, and "what have you'' may all be resorted to, but the only certain safe crossing is by tunnel or bridge. This is peculiarly true as regards school children, and all children us ing the city street. School children constitute the larger portion of the youth of the cities who traverse the sidewalks and streets, and their num bers converge at the crossings di rectly in front of the schools. Con sequently it is apparent that at these crossings the necessity for protec tion is most imperative. Here the crowds of youngsters gather. Here the streets are most liable to conges tion of little ones and students of older age. And here, therefore, there must be in the future full and ample security universally afforded to the rising generation. It must be taken frightened while crossing a street, and unwittingly walk right into the path of a motor vehicle. The average quality of presence of mind, acquired bv the experience and knowledge gained through advancing years, us ually is lacking in the juvenile make up. The little boy or girl who sud denly is placed in a dangerous situa tion too often is rendered helpless by the danger, and is knocked down and killed or injured where a mature person would have escaped. While motorists as a rule recog nize the handicaps of the young, they may be traveling at a very rap id rate of speed along a street, or be turning a corner swiftly and for these reasons may strike down a child before they know it. School zone precautions are not always ob served by the drivers of automobiles, and where visiting motorists are pas sing through, little or no attention into consideration that there is a wide difference between the degrees of danger arising in city thorough fares to adults and to those of an im mature age. Children are proverbi ally heedless and happy-go-lucky in disposition and prone to take risks is paid to such warnings. Some help has been given by having the larger children pilot the smaller ones across the streets, or by stationing a traffic officer at the crossing to halt cars until the school children reach a place of safety. which a mature person instinctively But as attendance at urban schools would avoid. They often are pos steadily increased, adding to the sessed of a spirit of bravado and will number of children crossing and re dash across a street in front of a mov crossing the streets at points occu ing automobile or truck, exposing pied by school buildings, it became themselves to imminent peril. Num obvious that ordinary measures of erous deaths and serious injuries are precaution would not bring about the attributable to these take-a-chance desired results. It was seen that a tactics on the part of children, and in permanent and fool-proof structure the great majority of such accidents of some kind must be installed if the motor drivers are not to blame. situation were to be definitely re On the other hand ordinarily pru lieved, the problem solved, and the dent children may get confused, or end attained. Police authorities, the school boards, and the leading auto mobile organizations had come to a complete accord as to the remedy, for accidents among the children showed no hopeful diminution. In the past ten years many thous ands of children in the United States between the ages of one and fifteen have lost their lives through auto mobile accidents. Many of these thousands were school children who were stricken down on the way to or from their studies, a considerable number being killed at or near the crossings adjacent to their particular schools. Thousands of others were injured, a great many seriously. It is a ghastly record of the slaughter of the innocents, and a record which must be reduced by ail means and .1 group of Los Angeles school chil dren entering one of the tunnels pro vided for their use. methods possible. No amount of money is top great if it will bring about a lasting reform. As far back as 1925, the city of Los Angeles, cooperating with the Automobile Club of Southern Cali fornia and the school officials of the February, i'-'eF 10 city, had taken up and carefully scrutinized the situation and formu lated plans for its relief. The ini tial experiment of constructing school tunnels to meet the emergen-' cy was launched m 1924 with the building of the tir-4 tunnel. Its emi nent fitness for .-afety purpose' wa so emphatically demuii-trated, that all of these respective cooperating elements joined vigorously in a movement to extend this valuable -ervice. In 1925 a bond issue of $350,000 was passed to establish additional tunnels for the school children, and in July. 1926. the first of the new tunnels was completed and opened for use. it was quickly followed by the construction of additional under ground passage ways. It is obvious that the average child of tender years is incapable of cool action and quick mental proc esses when confronted with immi nent peril. Even men and women who have reached what is commonly known as an age of discretion can not always be depended upon in this respect. At any rate, presence of mind is a plant of slow growth, and the child of from six to twelve years of age usually is helpless when in deadly jeopardy. The record of the dead establishes this without need of argument. Up to the present time 46 tunnels have been completed and are in con stant use. Not only do school chil dren pass to and from school in com plete safety, but outside of school hours they may use them when run ning errands or crossing over the streets at such intersections. They also may be utilized by anyone cross ing the streets at those points. Emerging safely on the opposite side of the street. The average cost of these tunnels was $3,1100. The cost per tunnel, of course, varied according to the length, which runs from 100 to 300 feet. The safety committees, which have been organized in the city schools by the safety department of the Automobile Club of Southern California with the cooperation of school authorities, render the use of the tunnels practically 100 per cent on the part of the school children. As one of the measures of economy the stationing of traffic officers at these points has been eliminated and also the necessity for the stopping of vehicles at any of the crossings. The saving incident to the elimi nation of the stopping of vehicles is difficult to ascertain, but the cost of a traffic officer's time is pos sible of correct determination. It easily can be seen, therefore, that the interest on the investment used in constructing a tunnel is far less than the salary of a police officer during the time that he would be sta tioned at this point. The saving through the elimination of the stop ping of automobiles, added to this figure, constitutes a sound economi cal venture. It is the duty of cities and city officials, school authorities, and all organizations interested in public safety, to do everything possible to minimize these dangers. It is a re sponsibility which cannot be shifted, and one which, if met and properly attended to. will avert many a trag edy and give the growing genera tion a chance to reach manhood and womanhood. It is believed that in time every American city of any size will adopt this method for the preservation of the lives of school children, for, like grade separation at steam and electric railway cross ings, it is a positive solution of the problem which admits of no denial. Naming the Accident A PROTEST against the present i. i method of classifying an accident in which a motorist runs into the side of a train is registered by the Illinois Central Magazine. Under such con ditions the motorist is reported as hav ing been killed or injured by a train. If he meets death hv driving into the side of a house, he is reported as killed in an automobile accident. The edi torial urges that such mishaps he called '`automobile accidents," rather than any phrase which would imply that the train was the aggressor- 20 NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS Annual Report of the Treasurer National Safety Council COMPARATIVE BALANCE SHEET--DECEMBER 31, 1928, AND DECEMBER 31, 1928. Current Assets: Assets As At As at Dee. 31. 1928 Dec. 31.IMS Cash ...................... $ 4,959,33 $ 9,639.81 Accounts Receiv- able ................... 106,746.52 93,346.61 Inventory of Sup- plies .................... 6,437.61 5,837.92 Increase Decrease $ 4.680.48 13,399.91 599.69 Liabilities A* at Dec. SI, 1929 Dec. 31, 1928 Increase Decrease Current Liabilities: Accounts Pay- able .................... $ 15.359.59 $ 2,075.07 $ 13,284.52 Current Accounts i Local Conn- cils) .................... 235.53 235.5 : % 13.999.60 $ 4,680.48 Total Current As- sets .................... : 118,143.46 $108,824.34 $ National Safety Council Reserve Fund Investments 99,867.50 99,861.50 Office Furniture and Equipment ........... 8,610.79 8,227.01 Printing Machinery 6,908.37 6,780.27 Deferred Charges.... 10.142.51 9,147.92 9,319.12 6.00 383.78 128.10 994.59 $10,831.59 $243,672.63 $232,841.04 $ 10.831.59 $ 13,284.52 Total Current Li- abilities ............. : $ 15,595.12 $ 2,310.60 $ 13,284.52 Accrued Expense.... 325.00 315.00 10.00 Deferred Income..... 7,396.57 4,973.74 2,422.83 Reserve for Future Service to Mem- bers ........................ 99,867.50 99,861.50 Surplus ..................... 120,488,44 125,380.20 6,00 4,891.76 $ 15,723.35 $ 4,891.76 $243,672.63 $232,841.04 $ 10,831.59 STATEMENT OF GROSS REVENUE AND EXPENDITURES For the Year Ending December 31, 1929 Gross Revenue Industrial Safety Division ...................... .............................$182,421.08 Public Safety Division .................................... .......... ......... ....... 96,341.48 Poster Department ................. ............... .......--.................. 100.161.91 National Safety News .............. --................--.............. -- 106,595.13 Miscellaneous Sales, such as Booklets, Bulletin Boards, "Safe Worker," Calendar, etc. --......... 297,869.64 Congress and Transactions...... ..................-- ------ .......--... 47,196.60 Films and Slides .......................... .......... .--............ -----......... 5,018.90 Printing Department (Inter-Dept. Transactions).......... 39,125.54 Transfer from Reserve for Future Service to Members 6,25 Transfer from Surplus------ --------------- .--........ ................ 4,891.76 $879,622.37 Less Printing Department Income.... ................................. 39,125.54 $840,496.73 Gross Expenditures and Disposition of Net Revenue Industrial Safety Division ............ ..................................,,_$199,760.22 Public Safety Division ..................-........ ,--........... --..... 211,585.79 Poster Department ...............................- ......................... 110,936.24 National Safety News ........................--............ .............. 89,874.96 Miscellaneous Expenditures for Booklets, Bulletin Boards, "Safe Worker," Calendar, etc........................... 184,097.60 Congress and Transactions ........................................... -- 45,205.36 Films and Slides ............................. ...................................--5,458.04 Printing Department ...........--.............................................. 32,704.06 $879,622.27 Less Printing Department Income......... ............................ 39,125.54 $840,496.73 We have examined the above Comparative Balance Sheet of the National Safety Council as at December 31, 1929, and December 31. 1928, and the accompanying Statement of Revenues and Expenditures for the year ended December 31, 1929, and have compared them with the books and vouchers and have found them correct. Chicago, Illinois, January 21, 1930. .. ARTHUR YOUNG & COMPANY, Certified Public Accountants. cbrnnry, 19.W The Supervisors Did It By CARMAN T. FISH 21 Every departmental safety in 2' spector at The Corrigan, Mc Kinney Steel Company is a foreman or assistant superin Plfl m tendent. Their consistent efforts have brought a steady reduction in accident frequency rr$ * % M 4 * '& W ` : ,JP i .1 HEN every supervisor is a Wsafety man, either from per sonal' conviction or through the influence of his fellow super ,.vj# ^ t v " %r,. A visors, results are sure to follow. With the Corrigan, McKinney Steel Company organized for safety on a this basis, results followed in a steady decrease in accident fre AA quency, a number of long-time de partmental safety records, and the winning of second place in the Na tional Safety Council's Iron & Steel Safety Contest for 1929. The departmental safety inspectors of The Corrigan McKinney Steel Company. Inset: Dr. R. C. Engel, director of the Service Department. The Corrigan, McKinney Steel Company operates blast furnaces, A safety inspector was appointed open hearths, mills, a by-products in each of the 14 departments. Each coke plant at Cleveland, Ohio. The inspector is either a foreman or an average number of employees at the assistant superintendent and thus Cleveland plant for 1929 was 2,890. has considerable authority and some As in most companies, accident of the qualities of leadership. This prevention work started with the group is the backbone of the safety safeguarding of major physical haz organization in the plant. ards. In 1917 a limited program was A general safety advisory com undertaken with limited effect on mittee, headed by Dr. Epgel, con accident occurrence. In 1925 the sists of the chief engineer and the work was reorganized with greater superintendents of the blast fur attention to the personal side of naces, coke plant and representing the accident prevention. Dr. R. C. Engel, steel plant. It exercises the usual func head of the service department and tions of reviewing and approving the medical director for the company, recommendations of the safety inspec organized the accident prevention tor's committee. and medical work of the company Departmental meetings are held on its present basis. Starting with monthly and it is a standing rule the company as a part-time physician that the superintendent must pre in 1912 and becoming a full-time side. Each department has its own physician five years later, Dr. Engel sub-committees reporting to the was exceptionally well qualified to superintendent at the monthly undertake the work. meeting and minutes are sent to the After convincing the executives of service department. The success of the soundness of the program and these meetings has been due largely securing their backing. Dr. Engel to the active leadership of the super proceeded with his usual thorough- , intendents. ness to sell the superintendents and All recommendations are submit foremen and to organize the neces- ted to the superintendent whose de sarv committees. partment is involved before any action is taken. Since the superin tendent is held responsible for acci dents, all matters affecting his de partment, guards or changes in methods must receive his approval. After recommendations have been passed by the superintendent and by the advisory committee they are checked by the engineering depart ment and passed on to the vice-pres ident in charge of operations for the final OK, which is invariably forth coming. Every week the safety inspectors meet to discuss accident prevention methods and their discussions range from how Bill's foot got under the wheel of a coke buggy to the psycho logical factors of accidents. Back of all the discussion is an earnest desire to profit from each other's experience and to correct present hazardous conditions and practices. Inspectors may criticize each other's methods and defend themselves energetically, but it is all taken in the right spirit. All safety inspectors have other responsibilities, but in listening to their deliberations one would thing that safety was their major job. I X'ATIOS'AL SAFETY S'ESI'S "In discussing accidents." said Dr. Engel, "our aim is to get at the un derlying causes with a view to pre venting future accidents rather than to place the blame. Few accidents are the result of willful negligence, and invariable the actual facts of an accident are a sufficient lesson for a supervisor. Too much ,:eul in plac ing the blame may break a,good man." Plant affairs are not the only sub jects discussed at these meetings, nor are the discussions limited to industrial safety. Public and home safety and lire prevention at the plant and at home are frequently brought before the group. At one meeting considerable attention was given to a decision of the United States Court of Appeals regarding the rights of pedestrians. Copies of radio talks presented in the Uni versal Safety Series are distributed among the inspectors and other key men. Material secured from the Nation al Safety Council and the Cleveland Safety Council also provides topics for discussion. The information gained at these meetings is carried to the men in the plant. All accidents, minor or serious, are investigated, and near accidents are not overlooked. The depart mental safety inspector makes his own investigation, and L. H. Pick erel. Dr. Engel's assistant and safe ty inspector from the service depart ment, conducts an independent inquiry. All witnesses are inter viewed and reports are sent to the president and to the vice-president in charge of operation. Copies are also sent to superintendents. When a worker is involved in a lost-time accident, the superintend ent of the department must report to Vice-president Harrison for a private interview. This helps to fix in each supervisor's mind his own responsibility for accidents and is clear evidence of executive interest. Such an interview is dreaded, not because of severe discipline, but be cause a superintendent hates to admit that he has failed in one of his major responsibilities. The seriousness of near accidents has been impressed on all supervis ors, and no mishap is dismissed lightly because no one happened to get hurt. Invariably a narrow es cape from injury reveals something wrong with men, methods or ma chines, and the lesson is applied. Each vear a large delegation from the Corrigan, McKinnev Steel Com pany enrolls in the supervisors' course conducted by the Cleveland Safety Council, and at the close of Racing for a Big Stake A CHECK for **.>.10 safe, healthy i 1 and happy days" is the stake in the race shown in the above picture. This unique race is one ot the methods used to maintain interest in the con test between The Eagle-Picher Lead Company's plant at Hillsboro, 111., and the Hammar Bros. White Lead Com pany, an Eagle-Picher subsidiary, at East St. Louis. The safety rabbit is placed above a sign indicating S~>8 days without a lost-time accident. Hillsboro's best previous record. Pursuing it are two greyhounds representing the compet ing plants. the course graduates are entertained at the graduation banquet by the com pany. These schools have been the source not only of much practical in formation on accident prevention methods but also a clearer insight into safety work. The Medical Service An important part of the service department's work, and the one from which the other activities have de veloped, is the medical service. Assisting Dr, Engel are five nurses who take care of the minor first-aid cases. A staff of surgeons, dentists and specialists in the various branches of medicine is employed on a consulting basis. Only emergency cases and those arising out of em ployment are handled by the com pany, but employees are always free to ask advice on health topics. Physical examinations are given to all men on employment and peri odic re-examinations are on a volun tary basis. When an employee is off duty for seven days or more, either for accident or illness, he must report to the hospital before returning to work. Getting injured men back to work as soon as possible is the aim of the medical department. No jobs are made for those suffering from disabilities, but if an employee can fill anv regular occupation without aggravating his condition he is al lowed to return to work with the doctor's permission. Physiotherapy is employed frequently in shorten ing the period of disability. Large numbers of employees have been trained in the prone pressure method of resuscitation. Depart mental safety inspectors are trained and they in turn instruct their men under Dr. Engel's supervision. A knowledge of resuscitation is needed particularly around the blast fur naces because of the ever-present hazard of carbon monoxide. Each year during the past five years has shown, a reduction in the accident frequency rate of the pre vious year. During 1928 the entire plant operated 55 days without a lost-time accident. All departments have established commendable rec ords of clear days, the following being some of the recent accomplish ments : Av. No. of Best Employees. Record. Blast Furnaces......... .. ...... 300 Main Power Station.... ...... 70 By-Product Coke ___ ...... 251 Electrical....................... ...... 279 Laboratory .................. .... 80 Mechanical .................. ...... 429 Open Hearth ..... ......... ...... 302 Rolling1 Mills .............. ...... 700 Order and Shipping.... ...... 101 Yard Labor.................. ...... 192 Office ....... ..................... ....... 87 Plant Police ................ ....... 48 River Dock.......................... :,.l Record still unbroken. 449 1220* 637 292 1386* 207 401 309 485* 779* 866* 4423* .">03 The accomplishment which has meant most to the company, how ever, was the winning of second place in the National Safety Council Iron & Steel Safety for 1929. Dur ing the first six months of the year the plant operated 4,221,304 man hours with 11 lost-time accidents, making a frequency rate of 2.606, Photostat copies of the certificate were presented to the departmental safety inspectors whose efforts had played such an important part in winning the award. I'.'hnitiry, 1W< Keeping the Plant Dust Free Modern Appliances Aid House keeping in the Factory as well as in the Home By R. G. HARKER Manager of Sales, Invincible Vacuum Cleaner Manufacturing Company ONE, are the days when the G living room carpet was re moved from the floor every Xot so many years ago dust and dirt were considered inevitable in industry. Food products factories, spring and hung over the line fiot ris true, were obliged to maintain its annual beating. The housewife high standards of cleanliness, but in no longer wraps a cloth around her the general run of manufacturing head and proceeds to raise clouds of operations where dirt would not dust with a broom. Modern meth damage the product, little attention ods of cleaning have revolutionized was given to the finer points of housekeeping methods and elim cleanliness. Coarse dirt was swept inated much dusty drudgery. The up, but the fine particles of dust re useful vacuum cleaner with its nu mained on the floor or settled on the merous attachments cleans not only walls, windows and ceilings. the rugs and carpets, but also fur With the growth of accident pre niture, draperies and bare floors. vention work in industry the con The same useful appliance, built for nection between cleanliness and heavier service, is helping industry safety became apparent. In many to dean house. industries the incentive to cleanli Metal chips and shavings are easily removed from machines with a heavy duly racuum cleaner. ness was the explosive nature of a large variety of dusts produced by the manufacturing processes which presented a serious hazard. There were, however, many other reasons for increased attention to cleanli ness. One of them was the reduced efficiency of plant illumination caused by the accumulation of dust. Many companies today pride themselves on their "daylight fac tories." A large part of the wail area is devoted to windows, and sky lights are used wherever practicable. Interiors are generally painted white or some tint with a high efficiency for reflecting light. It requires con stant effort to keep these interiors and windows dean to provide the maximum amount of light. More efficient systems of artificial lighting are also being installed and these require careful maintenance if the factory is to get the light it pays for. Illuminating engineers state that even a light film of dust on lamps and reflectors will reduce their efficiency as much as '25 per cent. The broom, long regarded as a symbol of neatness and order, is now recognized as an inefficient cleaning implement. Dry sweeping removes the heavy, coarse dirt and litter but it also scatters the fine particles of dust in the air where they settle on the walls, windows, ceilings and lighting fixtures to re duce the amount of direct and re flected light. Sprinkling the floors and using sweeping compounds help to keep dust from rising but sweep ing will leave considerable dust in H. NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS standards of cleanliness had made the workmen reluctant to spit or throw tobacco on the floors. "What is cleanliness worth to a plant?" This can be answered by the experience of hundreds of man ufacturers who have found that a clean plant actually improved tire product, increased production, re duced fire and accident hazards. They have also found that cleaner plants have improved the health and efficiency of the workers. Dust is not raised when floors are cleaned by suction. cracks in the floor, around machines and in corners. Only a strong suc tion is effective in removing dust from corners that are hard to get at with brush or broom. The influence of clean surround ings on employees is less easily measured but none the less real. Frequently careless, inefficient em ployees come from ill-kept homes. Their activities reflect their envir onment. Employees, however, spend approximately one-half of their wak ing hours at their place of employ ment and shop conditions are likely to be reflected in the home. In promoting standards of indus trial cleanliness the vacuum cleaner is filling the same position that it does in the home. From the stand point of economy, the vacuum clean er has a decided advantage over brush and broom methods. Fewer men are required and a more thor ough job of cleaning can be accom plished in much less time. As with the domestic vacuum cleaner, the numerous attachments make it pos sible to get at the out of the way corners--around benches and ma chines, pipes, walls, ceilings, sprink ler heads---places where dust is fre quently allowed to accumulate until the periodic housecleanings. The regular removal of dust also means less scrubbing and less frequent re painting. , Dust removal is essential in keep ing down fire hazards in many in dustrial operations. A conspicuous example is the power plant where hundreds of tons of coal may be used in a day. Large quantities of coal dust and dirt accumulate all over the power plant, covering the steam pipe lines, tops of boilers, floors, walls and ceilings. Any agi tation of this dust sufficient to fill the air with it creates a serious fire and explosion hazard. Under such conditions sweeping stirs up clouds of dust which settle in places previ ously gone over. Dust as a menace to health is uni versally recognized and installations which remove dust at its source are indispensable in many operations. Exhaust systems, however, do not make general plant cleaning un necessary, although they lighten the work. Keeping the workrooms as free from dust as possible is one important method of reducing ab senteeism through illness. The influence of clean surround ings on the habits of the workers is often remarkable. In one Ohio paper mill where portable vacuum cleaners are used throughout the plant, an executive expressed the opinion that tobacco chewing during work ing hours had decreased about 50 per cent. He stated that improved Button Up Your Overcoat! By C. O. SAPPINGTON, M. D. Director, Industrial Health Division National Safety Council HE fellow who brags about his Tcold baths is a pest during the winter months to those who shiver in the cold blasts. To some, a cold bath brings a warm, healthful reaction; to others it may be positively dangerous. Many have the idea that wearing as little clothing as possible is a good way to "toughen" themselves against cold weather. It is true that some people can wear light clothing in winter with out discomfort but the idea of any toughening process is entirely wrong. The body is actually a heating plant stoked with food. Insufficient clothing for the season permits too much heat to escape for bodily comfort and wel fare and resistance to colds and other diseases is likely to be weakened rather than strengthened. Comfort is a safe guide in deciding whether to wear long flannels or B. V. D.'s. Years ago people were afraid of cold air, particularly night air. They slept with rooms sealed tight. Then many went to the other extreme and opened the windows wide, even with strong, cold winds blowing in. Too low a temperature in a sleeping room is not desirable. It should be about ten or fifteen degrees below the tempera ture of a living room. On a cold night it is sufficient to open the window about about two inches to secure ample circulation of air. Engineers are careful to insulate heating systems to avoid waste of fuel, and the body needs a similar insula tion. Cold weather is exhilarating if you are comfortably dressed but if you are numb or chilly your resistance is lowered. All persons do not requir.e the same amount of clothing so let the other fel low brag about his hardiness. Let com fort be your guide, .... Ft'bnutrv, }v.'t> Electricity Can Serve Industry By L. F. WOOLSTON General Electric Company St. Louis, .Mo. Installing approved devices correctly, maintaining them up to standard and training workmen in their safe use will make electrical equip ment safe lectricity is no longer a E mystery to the electrical engi neer. Its action and its results can be accurately calculated and definitely predicted by mathematics. It is readily handled and may be easily controlled. It need not be feared but It must he respected. There are two major divisions of electric currents---one designated as direct and the other as alternating. The direct current simply means that it flows in a direct line or in one direction only. An alternating cur rent periodically alternates or changes its direction of flow and is not a straight line. The number of times it alternates its direction in one second is called its frequency. In this country two commercial fre quencies were considered as stand ard,--one 25 cycles and the other 60 cycles. It should be mentioned, however, that 60 cycles has proved to be better adapted to light and power service, and 25 cycles is, therefore, rapidly disappearing. Each industrial plant must be considered a problem in itself before the electrical engineer can make any definite recommendations as to the kind of power that should be used and whether it should be generated or purchased from the power com pany serving that community. In general it is found best to use alter nating current and to purchase it. Direct current is used when a spe cial problem is involved which nec essitates certain characteristics ob tainable only with direct current motors. Experience has shown that as a rule alternating current equip ment costs less than direct current and is simpler to operate and easier to maintain. Before the Madison County (II].) Safety Council. t Courtesy U. S. Xavy Yards Unauthorized persons cannot obtain access to this high tension equipment. The enclosure is locked and the key is kept in the electrical department. Voltage-. The selection of the proper voltage to use for distribu ting electrical energy about the plant depends, of course, on the amount of power involved, the dis tance it has to be transmitted, and the size and character of the motors to be driven. In plants of moderate size 460 volts, 3 phase, 60 cycle power has been found very satisfac tory. Assuming that power is pur chased, it is very unlikely that an in dustrial plant would be served directly from the central station company's lines at 460 volts. Usually a bank of step-down trans formers is required, and whether these transformers are to belong to the user or the power company de pends entirely upon the rates con tained in the power contract agree ment. Substations: These transformers together with the necessary oil circuit breakers, disconnecting switches, lightning arresters, busses, bus sup ports and their supporting struc tures, constitute what is called a "substation.'' This may be and usually is composed of all outdoor equipment. If oil insulated trans formers are installed indoors they must be placed in a separate fire proof vault constructed in accord ance with the Underwriters' special instructions with reference to fire doors, sills, drain to sewer, ventila tors, etc. It is essential that the supporting steel structure of the substation as well as the transformer tanks, oil circuit breaker tanks, disconnecting switch bases and insulator support bases be thoroughly grounded in ac cordance with the grounding rules of the National Electrical Code. The lightning arrester ground is of par ticular importance and should be separate from the other grounds and be as short and as free from bends as possible. ' One of the most important points to consider in all electrical installa tions is the interrupting capacity of the oil circuit breaker that is pro- 2H x.tiiox.il. s.u-Bi y xmi's exceed 5,500 feet per minute ; chain speeds should generally be around 1,500 to 2,000 feet per minute. Ordinary gears and pinions should not be run over 1,500 to 2,000 t'eet per minute pitch line velocity. Coupling speeds depend, of course, on the motor revolutions, and the size of coupling is determined by the horsepower to be transmitted at that speed. Motors are made enclosed, venti lated, totally enclosed, for outdoor service and even for safe operation in gaseous or explosive atmospheres, such as in mines, oil refineries, gaso line stills, gas pumps, etc. Industrial Control: Having selec ted the proper motor, it is equally important to provide the best and safest control for each installation. It is needless to say that there is a control available for every motor to give the proper starting and stop vided to clear all cases of extreme overload or short circuit conditions. In the case of purchased power the engineers of the central station com pany will designate the size and kind of breaker that can safely be used at that particular location. In The back of the switchboard should be so protected by screens that no unauthorized person would have access to or be permitted to come in contact with it or any of its accessories. Rubber mats, wooden platforms, insulated stools or their ping sequence, as well as to protect the motor against abnormal opera ting conditions, such as low voltage, excessive load current, blown fuse, or any other form of open circuit in the wiring, including troubles inher ent in the motor itself. the private plant a breaker that is equivalent, placed where the oper The best and safest control de large enough to carry the normal ator may stand on them for opera vices are totally enclosed and are full load current will, with few ex ting oil circuit breakers or discon arranged for conduit wiring. Manu ceptions, be large enough to take necting switches, give an added fac ally operated, semi-automatic or care of the extreme conditions. tor of safety. complete automatic may be chosen Switchboard: The switchboard should be located indoors in close proximity to the outdoor substation equipment. The number of panels depends, of course, on the number of individual feeder circuits. It is good practice to have a separate circuit Great care should be exercised that no one is allowed to open the secondary circuit of any current transformer that is connected in an active circuit, as a dangerously high voltage may he built up across these open leads. as desired. Magnetic or complete automatic control makes it possible to locate the push button stations for starting, stopping, reversing, etc., within easy reach of the oper ator. Maintenance to each important department of the plant. Oil circuit breakers with automatic overload protection are recommended for each feeder circuit, but knife switches with fuses may be used under moderate load condi tions. A watthour meter to meas ure the amount of power used by each department has in most cases proved to be a very profitable in vestment, as the various depart ments will be more saving of power if records are kept and the cost of power is charged to that depart ment's operating expense. The supporting framework of the switchboard panels, as well as the tanks of the oil circuit breakers, should be grounded. Instrument, meter, and relay cases are grounded in accordance with code regulations. The secondary wiring of all current and potential transformers should Wires and Cables: The wires and cables connecting the substation to the switchboard and from there to the various departments, including the branch circuits to the motors and their control, should all be selected in strict compliance with the National Code. When metallic conduit is used all phase wires of the same circuit must be included in the same conduit in order to avoid excessive voltage drop and even serious heating of the conduit itself. Lead covered cable should be used in all ducts where water or dampness is liable to be present. Motors: Standard open type gen eral purpose squirrel cage motors may be used in a very large majority of all applications. They may be connected to the driven machine by means of pulleys and belt, gear and To avoid unnecessary troubles with electrical equipment, periodic inspections have been found to be very effective. Certain companies have printed forms listing the ap paratus with a series of questions to be answered by a competent in spector after he has made a careful examination. Experience teaches us that many motors are seriously damaged simply because the bear ings were allowed to run dry. Others have, been burned out due to dust, dirt, oil or similar foreign mat ter being allowed to accumulate in the windings instead of receiving regular cleanings. The life of motor windings may be appreciably pro longed by keeping them dean and about once a year spraying or brush ing them with an approved air dry ing insulating varnish.* also be grounded in accordance with pinion, chain and sprocket, or direct Transformer failures may be pre the wiring diagram furnished by the drive using either a flexible or solid vented bv keeping the oil free from manufacturer of the hoard. coupling. Belt speeds should not moisture, sludge or dirt. About February, l`>30 mice or twice a year a sample of oil should lie taken from both tile, top and bottom and carefully examined and tested. If the samples do not appear satisfactory, the oil should be filtered until the standard oil tests are met. Oil circuit breaker contacts should be examined at least once a year. If any breaker has been opened under unusually severe con ditions, it should be examined be fore being put back in service, or as soon thereafter as possible, to make sure that the contacts are not out of adjustment or need replacing or that the oil is not too highly carbon ized and should be replaced. insulators should he wiped off oc casionally to keep them free from any deposit of soot, dirt, smoke or other matter which may eventually form a creepage path to ground. Bolted connections are liable to work loose, which may mean poor contact surface. This in turn causes excess heating or possibly even arc ing with the resutt that it not caught in time, serious damage may occur. Safety Regulations Since statistics show that about 85% of accidents are caused by per sonal carelessness, it is evident that the surest way to bring about reduc tion is in educating employees to the fact that personal caution is the greatest safeguard. The following safety regulations are extracted from the printed instructions of one of the large electrical manufacturing companies and their employees are made to understand that their will ful violation is considered sufficient cause for immediate dismissal. Work on or about live equipment or electrical lines must not be under taken except when absolutely neces sary. In such cases no employee shall do work for which he is not properly qualified, except under direct supervision of an experienced or properly qualified person. While doing such work the effect of each act must carefully be considered so as not to endanger themselves or others. They should place them selves in a secure position to avoid slipping, stumbling or moving back wards against live parts. Loose clothing which may be caught in moving parts, as well as shoes that easily slip upon the type of floor worked upon, should not be worn. Finger rings, watch chains, wrist watches, metallic pencils or any other unnecessary metallic arti cles, celluloid collars, celluloid or metal cap visors, and similar articles (Continued on pope .55; Markers Increase Visibility of Safety Zones Above: YelUne rubber safely sone markers which are being installed at unprotected safety ..ones in Detroit. Right: Neon signs used to mark Protected rones. S a starter in an accident re Aduction campaign, the Traffic Survey Bureau of the Detroit Police Department has recommended the expenditure of $41,455 for markers that will increase the visibility of protected and unprotected safety zones. These street railway "way stations" are not contributing to street safety for either street car riders or motorists. On the basis of the fatal, injury and non-injurv accident record for 1927 and 1928, the IDetroit Police Department installed for test pur poses four rectangular red Xeon signs at as many protected zones. Six months prior to the installations these zones were involved in three accidents, and during the six months following the installation one acci dent was recorded. Similarly, thirteen unprotected cidents reported occurred during the hours of darkness. This fact, supported by field observations, prompted the recommendation for greater visibility of indicators. zones, or car-stops as they are com The amount appropriated to reduce monly called, were equipped with accidents at these zones is slightly less rubber markers. These markers had yellow backgrounds with the letters "Safety Zone" outlined in black. For the six months prior to the installa tion there were six accidents; for the corresponding period afterwards there were no accidents. than 10 per cent of the estimated cost nt such accidents to the city for 1927, 1928 and the first eight months of 1929. Allowing $5,000 as the cost of a fatality, $175 for each personal in jury, and $50 for each property dam age accident; the total estimated cost From January 1, 1927, to August for the period was $446,925, The rub 31, 1929, a period of two years and ber markers are being installed at 2.350 eight months. 73 per cent of the ac unprotected zones. NATIONAL SAfETV XHU'S THe Safety Everyb Exchange Page The Safety Exchange is a round table in print. It is a medium for the exchange of ideas that have proved helpful in accident prevention. If you have developed some useful device or method, send in a description, with sketch, blueprint or photograph if possible. Comments and criticisms regarding devices described on these pages are invited. BARS WITH UPTURNED ENDS AID PILING The accompanying illustration pic tures a simple method of stacking round bars in a safe and orderly man ner. Notice the rails secured to the concrete door upon which the piles rest; likewise, note particularly the short sec tions of flat bar iron with upturned ends placed between each tier to pre vent the round bars from rolling. The picture illustrates the bar storage in the piant of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company. SAFETY SERVICE CAR CARRIES SAFETY EMBLEM The special safety service cars used by the Humble Oil and Refining Company and the Humble Pipe Line Company, of Houston, Texas, are so labeled that all employees will readily recognize the safety engineer and give him every assistance in emergency cases. The emblem on the car doors is very much like the Universal Safety emblem ex cept that it bears the name of the company and "Safety Servictf Car." Incidentally this mark proclaims to the world that the car is driven by a safety engineer and he in turn sets the example of being a real safety man. In the picture V. S. Hayslip, safety engineer for the company's producing and pipe line department, stands by his coupe. WOODEN TOOL FOR SEPARA TING STEEL PLATES During inspection of heavy steel plates there is often danger of cuts and other injuries if employees try to lift them with out proper tools. This wedge, made of hard wood, is used by the men at the Homestead works of the Carnegie Steel Company during sorting and inspection, thus saving their hands from painful injuries. counterweights pull the car back, and it is the method of attaching and detach ing these counterweights that is of inter est. The counterweights are attached to a cable that runs over a sheave and then to a double loop of steel, normally held in place by two short hooks catching in the lower loop. When the car reaches the top of the incline it picks up the loops bv two hooks fastened to the car body. As the car runs out on the floor it drags the loops with it, and so pulls up the counterweights. After the car is dumped, the brakes of the hoist are re leased. The counterweights then draw the car back to the incline, and as the car goes over the incline the loops catch on the double hooks and unhook them selves from the car. The car, a heavyone, is brought up at a lively rate; but the hooking and unhooking of the coun terweight loops is smooth and certain. The arrangement requires no attention from the hoist man.--Rock Products. FIRE EXTINGUISHERS GO WITH WELDING OUTFIT Welding equipment is frequently used where there may be considerable danger of fire from the torch flame or from the sparks which fly when the cutting or welding is in progress. In this illustration is seen a com pact welding outfit equipped with two car bon tetrachloride fire extinguishers. They are not in the way and they are always on the job if needed. NOVEL METHOD OF RETURNING CAR TO INCLfNE At the plant of the Lawrence Portland Cement Company, Thomaston, Me., an unusual method is employed in pulling a car back on the incline. The car is brought up the incline by a hoist, which pulls it on to the floor above the primary crusher. After the car is dumped, two February, 1930 ACCIDENT RECORD LETTERED ON PAVEMENT To maintain safety interest among the employees in an effort to beat a best pre vious no-accident record, one of the things done by the Midvale Company, Nicetown, Pa., was to paint figures on the plant pave ments, showing the best previous record at the time the drive was being made. To supplement these pavement signs, other signs showing the current safety record 20 were posted in conspicuous places and changed each day. Here is a picture show ing the big pavement sign, and also, to the left rear, one of the smaller signs displaying the current record. SIGNAL LIKE A SEMAPHORE GUARDS TRACK The signal shown in this picture is used by the Laclede Gas Light Company of St. Louis on their coal unloading tracks. This semaphore board is read practically the same as by railroad men. In the upright position it is clear for the train crew to come in and take away the empties or to spot full loads. _ When the board is in the 45 degree position this indicates that the cars are to be moved, but the train crew must advise the men before coupling. When the board is in the horizontal position, then under no circumstances may the train crew touch any cars on that track. A BOLTLESS AND RIVETLESS SPREADER BEAM A novelty in a safety sling spreader beam design is shown in the accompany ing picture from the Homestead works of the Carnegie Steel Company. No bolts or rivets, are required. The lower links of the angle chains are flattened slightly in one place so that they may be slipped into the narrow slots at the ends of the beam. With this arrangement they can not jump or slip out of place while in use. THIS SCAFFOLD FOLDS LIKE AN UMBRELLA are seen. The rope attached to one ot these eyes is kept taut and stationary; but the rope attached to the second eye, when relaxed, allows the outer framework to slide down and open out like the ribs of an umbrella, t see second picture.) A cen tral pipe in this framework slides over a stout rod ending in the eye to which the first rope is attached. The third picture show's the scaffold opened out with the cir cular platform in place. SLEDGE HAMMER HANDLES ARE CLAMPED ON What chance has any of these sledge hammer heads of coming loose from the handle? The men who use them in the plant of the Universal Portland Cement Company, Buffington, Ind., can go about their work with lull assurance that no one is going to be injured by a flying hammer head. Notice that the wrought iron strap, which is clamped to the handle with two small bolts, runs completely around the hammer head and is welded to it at the sides. The group of pictures accompanying these notes, shows a cleverly designed folding scaffold devised by the Champion Fibre Company, Canton, N. C, for the use of repair men while working inside digesters. The pictures, of course, were taken in the open to show proper detail. Note particu larly that at the top of the first picture, showing the framework dosed, two eyes ;',o NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS worked out the details of the changes in cluding reentorcemciit of the car bodies to withstand greater -.train. ft appears from the illustrations that the safety pin, which is attached to the car with a stout chain, goes through the iatcli at a slight downward angle so that iarring would tend to keep it in proper position rather than shake it out. ACCIDENT SCORE BOARD WITH COLORED LIGHTS A well constructed and practical score board is used by the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company. Opposite the name of each CHIP SCREENS EMPLOYED FOR BENCH WORK Here is a group of well constructed can vas screens, in the shops of the Universal Portland Cement Company at Buffington, Ind. With such screens, plus goggles on each workman, the bench workers have ample protection against the hazards of flying chips. A simple stout wooden frame holds the canvas and this is suspended from a rigid piece of bar iron bent at the wall into a support. PROTECTION FOR THE YARD TRACTOR DRIVER This method is very satifactory as the nek proper is embedded in a matrix of softer limestone and the hole is very strati fied and broken so that a fast powder would merely tend to pack the mass in stead of shaking it up. However, when shooting "in the solid,'' as when starting a new bench, holes arc spaced on 10 to 12 foot centers, and are similarly loaded and shot. Each hole, after drilling, is plugged with a wooden plug and a neat dam of dirt is built around each one so as to prevent water from rains and seepage from filling them and causing attendant troubles. SCRAP CAR DOOR HAS SAFETY LATCH Two men at the plant of the Carpenter Steel Company, Reading, Pa., are respon sible for the origin of this scrap car door safety latch. They are Robert Parker a..d Frank Himmel, in the melting and car re pair departments. These trucks weigh about two tons and are subjected to very hard use. The weight of the load plus the strains imposed upon the sides of the cars when hoisted with a crane would often cause the latches to spring open, releasing the side drop doors and allowing the mate rial to fall out. Mr. Parker conceived the idea of using a safety pin in the latch as double protection, and Mr. Himmel department are red and green electric light bulbs and a score card holder. When every department has a clean record all of the green lights are kept burning, but when an accident occurs in one of the departments, the green light for that department is turned off and the red one is turned on. In ad dition, a card is slipped into the score card rack showing the number of accidents that occurred in the department. A well shaped overhead light gives the board good general illumination. An operator of a yard tractor cannot per form his duties as safely when exposed to extremes of weather as he can when pro tected. The Laclede Gas Light Company of St. Louis, Mo., provides protection for its operators of Fordson tractors by the con struction of cabs with light metal frames and roofs, and with side curtains having celluloid windows of liberal dimensions. It is dear that the operator of the tractor shown in the picture is amply protected against extremely cold weather and flying dust particles on windy days. PROTECTING WELL DRILL HOLES IN THE QUARRY Ordinarily the blasting operations of the Consolidated Rock Products Company quarry near Brooksville, Fla., consist of drilling a few churn drill holes at considerable distances back from the high face, springing the holes with a gelatin dynamite, and then shooting the holes with black powder. /`Vfcnitir.v, 1QS0 HIGH HEELS DO NOT CATCH IN THIS FIRE ESCAPE Here is an excellent picture illustrating how the hanger of people tailing upon a tire (.cape, and perhaps causing a panic during a tire, may he avoided. Such considerations prompted the Providence Rubber Company to install i'iic-half inch mesh galvanized ;Jl wire screen on this fire escape. Such a covering prevents any shoe heel from catch ing in the grille work. HANDLING LUMBER IN BULK SAVES LIMBS This picture illustrates the method employed by the Buckstoft Company, Oshkosh, W:s., in handling large quanti ties of lumber from the yard storage to the sheds. The lumber, when received, is piled on specially constructed trucks in the yard, and when desired, these are run onto a transfer carriage. This car riage is free to move back and forth on a transverse track between the yard and the sheds, it is pulled or pushed by a tractor to whatever position is neces sary. The manner in which the lumber trucks are run off the transfer carriage into the sheds is obvious in the picture. A SPARK DEFLECTOR FOR THE STEAM HAMMER On the steam hammer it is a simple mat ter to construct and install a spark deflec tor, as shown in the accompanying illustra tions ; and there is no telling how many injuries from flying scale and from sparks it may prevent. The particular guard shown here was designed and built in the shops of the tractor works of the Interna tional Harvester Company. HEAVY BAGS DUMPED EASILY WITHOUT STRAIN An ingenious device is used by the Min ute Tapioca Company for dumping the contents of heavy bags into bins, thereby reducing the danger of strains and in creasing the efficiency of operations. Over the bins is arranged a series of hoist drums which are free to revolve on a line shaft. The shaft is driven by a chain and sprocket, and lever operated clutches enable the drums to be thrown into operation at will. Rope operated ratchet pawls make it possible to hold drums in any desired position during the process of dumping. Hinged doors are connected to the frames of the bin open ings; and it will be noted that each drum is equipped with a rope, terminating in a double hook arrangement. In actual op eration, a loaded bag is trucked to one of the hinged doors and turned over onto it with the open end toward the bin. The drum, rope is hooked onto a ring in the door with one hook while the other hook is fastened into the bag to prevent it shifting when the door is raised. When all is set the operator simply throws the dutch of the corresponding drum which raises the door and the bag to a ver tical position over the bin, the rope- oper ated ratchet pall holding it in that posi tion until the contents of the bag have been dropped into the bin. The empty bag is lowered by releasing the ratchet by a pull on the rope. 32 NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS Spanish Publications Extend Safety's Influence By G. M. BRIGGS AFETY observers are continually S running upon striking evidences of the international character of that requires nursing and infinite care. More than a year ago a letter the National Safety Council's influ reached the Council headquarters ence. from the general manager of the Can- One day it will be excellent repro anea Consolidated Copper Company, ductions of some of the Council's of Cananea, Sonora, Mexico, asking more outstanding posters, done into about the possibility of a Spanish the German, Scandinavian, Dutch, or translation of "Shop Safety." He had Spanish language. Another day it will been attracted by the completeness of be correspondence coming into the the book and its evident ability to in Council headquarters from European terest workers in preventing accidents. or perhaps Asiatic countries and dis He wanted, if possible, to secure cussing important safety matters. Last 3.000 copies in Spanish, and he gen September it was several foreign del erously offered to be responsible for egates, some of whom come half way the translation of the book matter. around the world to attend the Annual To make the story short, arrange Safety Congress. And today it is the ments were quickly made to produce official publication in the Spanish lan the book in a quantity that might take guage of two of the Council's aids to care of a considerable circulation. It mankind in accident prevention. was realized that many company mem The first of these is the booklet bers in the southwest have large num ",Shop Safety" which now, in colorful bers of Spanish employees. Both Spanish is entitled "Seguridad en el these and perhaps others would prob Taller." The second is the popular ably see the opportunity to secure Safe Practices Pamphlet is valuable safety instruction in sued by the Petroleum Sec the foreign language. And be tion of the Council as "Safe yond the borders of the Unit Sales Truck Driving," and Instruccioncs para la ed States lay a vast territory this title has now become "Seguridad en el Manejo de Ios Camiones Tanques." More than 100,000 copies of "Shop Safety" were published Seguridad En El Manejo De Los Camiones Tanques f'-vfe'tiutti U 1* wftMMfcd m it prMitu. (SmwUmi Nki*- --- f.ifU nfcwt Ho. IH, Cm*,--CMoee = in Mexico, Central and South America where such a book might be appreciated by thou sands of Spanish employers. The work of production oc and distributed by Council cupied almost a year. This member companies to their included the careful transla employees; and it is predicted tion and checking of the book that the Spanish translation matter, typesetting, correc will have a wide circulation tion, the production of new both in foreign countries and illustrations in Spanish, and among member companies the final publication and dis employing many Spanish tribution. The first edition speaking workers. In the was 8,000 copies, the second short time that the Safe Prac edition 7,000 copies, and dur tices Pamphlet has been pub ing December alone 5,000 lished some 20,000 copies copies of the second edition have been distributed; and in were sold. Everywhere that dications are that the Spanish the book is seen it is admired edition will also be very pop and found useful. ular. Safe Practices- Pamphlet There is a decided element Petroleum No. 5 has a very of romance about the incep similar story to tell, although tion and production of each its Spanish edition was orig of these Spanish children of inally planned to 'travel far the Council. Good books are quite definitely "born" after the crystallization of an idea Two of the Council's publications which have been published in Spanish to meet the demand for safety literaiure m Spanish-speaking countries. ther. Let us imagine a day last autumn when an English (Continued on page 53) February, 1930 33 The Jones Gas Detector Developed by G. W. J ones. Explosive Chemist, United States Bureau of Mines Numerous Explosions and Apparent Hazards in Sewers, Manhole Entrances to Gas Lines, Electrical Conduits, Etc., Prompted The Development of This New Gas Detector! The Jones Gas De tector is the only in strument commercially available which shows definitely whether you have explosive gases below the lower explo sive limit, within the explosive range, above the explosive range or an inert atmosphere. Bulletin No. 17 gives complete information. Send for it. ESP"" The JONES Gas Detector is an Easily Manipulated In strument for quickly determining the Approximate Explosive Content in Confined Spaces such as Sewers, Manhole En trances to Gas Lines, Electrical Conduits, etc., where Flam mable Gases and Vapors May Collect .... 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Salesman When you persuade a man ship might very as the ability of well be defined one man to change to work safely, you've made the thinking of another to coincide a sale. If you wish to in with his own. It is simply a transfer crease your sales, read Mr. of a mental image from one mind to O'Brien's suggestions on another, and acceptance by the second mind. safety salesmanship. Instead of injecting a lot of personal ideas or real estate ideas into this ar ticle, it may be of greater interest to discuss a survey which has been con ducted by Professor Busse and Pro fessor Borden of New York Univer sity. They have analyzed 25,000 sales interviews and have arrived at six cardinal principles of salesmanship. These interviews, of course, cover a great variety of business. I have boiled these six principles down into just a few words each. They are: earnestness, an honesty, a sincerity of purpose, and a suavity in his speech. The movies have taught us that. We understand through actions, we under stand through expressions, even when words are not spoken. The tone of voice in which one speaks to another man has a great deal to do with the impression he makes. If a man re members to smile, he can call us a pretty nasty name and get away with it. 1. Don't try to do all the talking yourself. Give the man with whom you are talking, to whom you are try ing to sell an idea, an opportunity to express himself. Many salesmen spend so much time talking that they do not get the objections, the criticisms or the opinions of the man with whom they are talking. Such salesmen are prominent among those who fail to make the grade. 2. Don't interrupt. When we are trying to talk, it is irritating to have someone interrupt us. Even though we may have a red hot rebuttal for the point which he is trying to make, it is best to let him finish that point and get it out of his system. Then we have our opportunity. A salesman must realize that he is not trying to win a debate; he is try ing to make a sale. There is an old adage that a pinch of sugar is worth a pound of gall. Anything that tends to sweeten the thinking of the man with whom we are talking is a step forward in salesmanship.3 3. Avoid an argumentative attitude. A salesman needs to cultivate an Abstract of an addreii before the Engineering: Division, Detroit Industrial Safety Council. 4. The first half of the interview should be taken up in inquiring, rather than attacking. Bring forth the ob jections that the prospect or the man in the plant may have; encourage him to unload everything in the way of criticism. Get him to use up all his ammunition, so that when you come to the last half of the interview he will have none left to fire at the points you are making. In handling men we all know that when it is necessary to criticize a man for what he is doing, or suggest new ways of doing it, it is far easier to get him to accept our point if we sweeten the constructive criticism with a compliment. 5. Restate the gist of any argument that he may present. This prevents rambling in the interview, and it is usually advisable to restate the point even more forcibly than it has been presented to you. In that way he feels that you are falling on his side; he does not feel that you have failed to make it as strong as it really seems to him. In selling, I was always glad to call back on a man who had been abrupt with me; who perhaps had been almost insulting. When you go back the sec ond time he has had time to think, and he is usually honest in his conclusions. If he was unfair or abrupt, he us ually goes to the other extreme next time you call about the same proposi tion. Sometimes it is wise not to talk too much the first time when the man is in a state of mental turmoil, because, if he does condemn unfairly, he will usually be fair enough to think it over, and when you come back it will be easier to get your point across. I like to talk with a man who is emphatic, a man who quickly says in a sales interview, "I am not interested." It shows a definite type of mind. Why is he not interested? Simply because he does not understand. If he under stood he would be interested. After you have proved your point, that type of mind is just as quick to say `Wes," rather than dilly-dally along in accept ing the proposition. 6. Identify your sales talk with a key issue. Bring everything down to the principal point, whatever the idea is that you are trying to sell the man on the machine or at the emery wheel or the man who has been careless in running under a crane. Illustrations are important ; words can accomplish only so much. If we say to the man at the emery wheel, "Don't grind without goggles, you may put vour eye out," it is not as effective as if we are able to point out a man in the shop who has actually lost an eye. To the man who is taking a serious risk which might result in him being carried away in an ambulance, if we appeal to him through his family, and point out what it would mean to them if he were taken away or even laid up for several months, the matter is im pressed on his mind. Next time he is tempted to take an unnecessary chance, he will think of the picture you have presented. Eighty-seven per cent of pur impres sions come through the eye and only seven per cent through the ear. If we can paint a verbal picture to the man we are trying to help he will remem- vAruary. 1930 SAFETY 35- SERVICE DAVIS HOT PAD Generates Own Heat with % ounce Cold Water IMPORTANT FEATURES OF THE DAVIS HOT PAD The Davit Hot Pad it made of high grade rubberized flannel, tizc 7x8V4 inchct. 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Most plants use safety posters which carry a few words and a picture. The picture, even more than the words, tells the story of the chance the man is taking or the correct way to do the job. However, I am not going to dis cuss posters. My purpose is not to talk about selling safety to the group, but rather to discuss that type of Salesman ship where you talk direct, as one man to another. The Power of Persuasion The greatest power on earth is the power of persuasion. There is an old adage that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. You can lead minds to agreement by reason when you cannot compel sur render. Many salesmen can sell goods, yet when they get home they forget the fundamentals of salesmanship and get into arguments with their wives over trifles, where just a little give-and-take would have made for happiness in the home. We who have children know that if we command the respect of our children it must be through persuasion. We may force a youngster to do things simply because we have the physical power, but there is resentment in that child's mind. A smile and the right sort of persuasion would have accom plished the end, and both of us would have been happy. And in business, persuasion is the only dominating force among men. There is one thing certain--we cannot persuade unless our case is sound. We must have the facts, we must think honestly, we must sympathize with the opinion of the other man. No matter how clever a salesman may be with words, he will fail if he is dishonest in his statements. In any kind of selling the appeal must be varied to suit the characteris tics of the prospect. The appeal which will work with a married man of 43 is almost useless when applied to the young fellow of 19 in the shop. It may seem strange to think of the workmen in the shop as your prospects but in sales terminology that is what they are. You are the salesman and the workman is the prospect. You are trying to get into his thinking an idea which you are sure is right. If he ac cepts it, he is sold, and that means that he won't take the same chance again tomorrow. The approach needs to be studied carefully. You may go up to a man, grab him by the arm and say "You damn fool, you ought to know better than that; put on those goggles 1" Or you may walk up to him and say as an introduction, "Hello, joe. Did you see the game last Saturday?" Then follow up with a reference to his family and what an accident would mean to them. Which is going to 'nave the better effect on the man? You cannot go up and make love to every workman in the shop; that doesn't work. There is a type of man to whom you must talk straight from the shoulder. There is the hard-boiled fellow who may have to be met on his own ground, but still, if you do it honestly, he knows that you are sincere in trying to help him. Even though today he may tell you that this safety stuff is all foolishness, if you get an honest message across to him he should accept it. We are all willing to accept a statement from a man whom we feel is working to help us, and that is the joy in safety work. No one can tell vou how to make the proper approach. You must an alyze your man. and then frame the words, the tones and the smile in the wav that is going to appeal to him. Play it just like you do a game. Are vou going to win, or are you going to lose? Is he a better man than you, or are you a good enough salesman to get your point across? Put it right up to yourself each time. Positive vs. Negative The power of good is always pre dominant over evil. We are prone to use the negative because the glass eve that the safety engineer pulls out of his pocket makes tire man think, or at least we think it makes him think more quickly about the seriousness of the mistake he is making. On the other hand, if our prospect is the type of man to whom we can paint the picture of the home, with the children playing in the yard, which is maintained by his weekly income, there is a man to whom the appeal of the positive is far stronger. Personally, I have one objection to those six principles which I have pre sented, and that is that there is so much negative thought. In salesman ship, if a person can gradually train himself to eliminate the negatives and to talk the positives, his own thinking will be far happier and the result upon the person with whom he is talking will be more wholesome. If you can use the positive, it cer tainly gets the long look off your face. When you pull the glass eve out of your pocket there isn't much you can smile about. And after all. one of the great fundamentals of salesmanship is that it is agreements rather than argu ments that get results, and it is the negative thinking that usually leads to arguments. There is a rather peculiar trend caused by what might be called the "personal liberty" idea. It makes me say to you. "Well, hell, it I want to face this grinding wheel without gog gles, it's my business, isn't it? What do you care? When Persuasion Fails That is a peculiar trait in human nature. The only answer you can give is, "Well, maybe I shouldn't care; if you aren't interested in taking care of yourself, why should I be? On the other hand, you are hired to do certain things. If you don't do your work, you don't stay on the job very long. I'm employed here and my job is to tell you this. I admit that I can't force you to accept it if you don't want to. I can't come up here and force a pair of goggles on you. I can only do my best and then leave it entirely to your own judgment." When nothing else will work, we may have to come to force. For a cer tain type of man that may be the only way to accomplish your purpose. Just say, "Well Bill, I've tried to do this the way I would have wanted some body to do it for me. Maybe I've failed, and I'm sorry if I have, for that puts me in a bad light, because my job is to help you. Now there is something wrong with me some place, or I'd have been able to make you see that you should wear goggles; or there is something wrong with our whole scheme of things and you are right. "Now which is right and which is wrong? Either our whole plan of having men wear goggles is wrong or you should have put them on. I have gone about as far as I can go. If you won't put them on, I guess the only thing to do is to get some man on this grinding wheel who will put them on.'' Ninety per cent of the sales in a certain line of business are made by salesmen who have come back more than four times. Maybe in selling an idea to the man at the machine it is advisable not to try to put it across completely the first time. Leave a con structive thought with him and drop back tomorrow and ask him his opin ion. We all feel complimented when someone asks our opinion. There is nothing mysterious about salesmanship. The art of salesman ship--or to call it by a simpler name, the power of persuasion, or still sim pler, the ability to change the thinking of someone else--will, if rightly di rected, make healthier and more pro ductive men in your plants. By'utiliz ing these principles, you and they will be happier in all of your relationships with life. February, 1030 1 57 This booklet is a manual of fire protection information A copy of the new edition of "Cor rect Protection Against Fire" will be sent free to any executive inter ested in safeguarding his business against interruptions by fire. This booklet describes impartially the various types of fire extinguish ing devices, and shows graphically the place of each in a complete fire protection plan. LaFrance and Foamite Service, also described in this booklet, is ready to cooperate with you at any time.Itincludesacompletesurvevof your plant or ofyourspecial hazards by trained fire protection engineers, working under your supervision; supplying and advising as to the installation of adequate safeguards; cooperating with you in instructing your employees in the use of this equipment; and if you desire, re charge and maintenance service. If you would like an engineer to call, or have a copy of"Correct Pro tection Against Fire," write to the American-La France and Foamite Corporation, Dept. G24, Elmira, N. Y. Offices in all principal cities. IAFRANCE^FOAMITE PROTECTION .4 ,V N C / -V /' p, / ,-V G S R V / C AGAINST FIRE When writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS 38 NATIONAL SAFETY NEK'S The Government and Safety By SENATOR ROBERT F. WAGNER of New York OR the past two decades the Fdoctrine has been preached that the promotion of industrial Safety legislation must con tinuously reorient itself to safety is a Basically, that function doctrine of government. rests on an the ever changing industrial article of faith--the firm belief that environment. Law must not the so-called hazards of industry can be eliminated. Upon this conviction was erected a moral precept: that hinder progress; progress must not jeopardize life.' industry has a right to the labor but not to the lives of those who are employed in it. In less than a generation both the far beyond its first stage. It has doctrine and its moral have become gradually built up a body of infor the accepted principles of the eco mation. It has devised for its use a nomic world. Today they seem so statistical method. Thousands of compellingly sound that it is diffi safety mechanisms have been con cult to imagine that they have only trived and hundreds of salutary recently supplanted the cruel notion statutes have been placed upon the that each industry had its risks law books of the country. All this, which those who entered it assumed however, is secondary to its true ac and bore; that if they lost in the complishment, which is hidden in gamble and brought misery upon the unrecorded number of lives themselves and destitution to those saved, of accidents prevented, of who depended upon them, only the families shielded from the coming fates were to be blamed. of that terrible day when the bread Those who first rebelled against a winner fails to return. belief in the inevitable risks of in None can now deny that the faith dustrial occupation had little evi and the hope upon which we built dence to support their faith. There have been justified beyond the most were no records, no statistics, few saneuine expectations. Now, then, observations, and fewer experiments. is the time to pause to take inven We did not know how to make in tory. of our problems, to find our dustry safe. We did not know what bearings, reset our compass and fix it would cost to make industry safe. a more distant objective for our We could not measure the influence journey. of those who would refuse to join in the enterprise. The only force which motivated us was the violent reac tion against the useless maiming and killing. Already many of the laws that have been written legislate against a past which is no more. As such they constitute a barnacle which is oossiblv harmless but certainly use Two Specific Remedies less. Meanwhile, new industries, new processes, new methods and Out of that spirit of rebellion were precipitated two specific remedies which are today coming to be uni versally applied. The first, work men's compensation, rests on the proposition that if there be an in dustrial risk its burden should be distributed by insurance and not permitted to lie where it falls. The second, industrial safety, is devoted to the task of reducing the risk by eliminating the danger. The safety movement has gone Abstract of an address before the International Association of Industrial Accident Board* and Commission*. practices are developing at a pace at which the law has not vet learned to follow. The methods of indus trial supervision have been some what sluggish. It has not interceded until the nrice of delav has been naid in broken lives. In this speed ing century safety administration, must keep pace with the industry it is designed to regulate. Mv point is that safety legislation must continuously reorient itself to the new and ever-changing indus trial environment in which it is meant to operate. The law must be such as will not hinder industrial progress; the progress must be such as will not jeopardize life. Let me cite two instances, each representing a type of change which calls for adjustments in the handling of the safety problem.' When we first started to civilize the factory it was with so-called big business that we had to contend. The opposition was organized against what was termed the intru sion of government into the private management of business. Now, how ever. our concern is no longer with the. large enterprise. Large-scale business has definitely mastered the lesson that industrial safety and health pay in terms of increased production, in terms of waste elimination, in terms of fewer sleep less and fretful nights for em ployer and employee alike. Cor porate industry has come to realize that the same energy and applica tion which are devoted to the im provement of oroduction and the in crease of dividends must likewise be devoted to the promotion of safety. In innumerable cases the large plants have gone far beyond the minimum requirements of law. A New Kind of Resistance The legislator or industrial com missioner is now confronted with a new kind of resistance to the safety program. It is indifference of the small-plant operator who combines tvithin himself the functions of own er, financier, production director, and sales manager. He literally has no time to think of safetv. He can not devote to it the constant thought and diligence which it demands. Payment of an insurance premium, in his case, serves only to eliminate the apprehension of possible legal liability. Comparisons recently made be tween the small and the large plant have shown that the former is the more serious offender against the safety code. To be specific, in ma chine-tool factories it was shown that one large plant had an'accident frequency of 12.8, whereas 11 small plants together employing as many (Continued on page 76) February, 19S0 39 Meet Wcekees New l EAI INC TEE i4SAfE WT'EXtC" JN December of 1928, when the "Safe Worker" was less than a year old, 124,600 copies were being read. In December of this year over 200,000 copies of the issue were distributed by 743 companies. The tremendous increase in circulation during 1929 is a tribute to the effectiveness of this twenty month old employees safety house organ. Arrange to add the ''Safe Worker" to your 1930 cam paign. It will not fail to prow to be an effective aid in promoting safe practices throughout your plant. IVhett writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS 40 NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS The Costly School of Experience Its Tuition Fees Are High and We Frequently Fail to Apply the Lessons *' By H. J. BURTON Consumers Power Company, Jackson, Mich. F ALL the personal injuries re I ported occurred in one department or district, something very definite ffjti CMimn Ciwir Cw|ht jKf, V- tAWWTT BULLETIN >T would be done to apply the lessons learned. THE BIG Our records show that we do not always apply the lessons learned. We fail to profit by our own experience or by the experiences of others. We 4 IN PREVENTING ACCIDENTS! have' learned that physical or mechan ical safeguards will prevent 20 per SELECTION THE RIGHT MAN FOR TMF JOR. cent of the accidents which now occur and that the other 80 per cent can be prevented or lessened by instruction or education. Eighty per cent pertain entirely to the human element. Eighty IXSTRUCTTON r T1IF RIGHT METHOD* FOR FHF JOR GUARDING MIC RIGHT KOUIPMF.NT FOR THE JOR. per cent are definitely the fault of SUPERVISION some one--the injured, a fellow worker, or the supervisor. TH( RIGHT MAN, METHODS AND EOt'IRMENT (OR THE JOR. What are we doing about the 20 per cent, those which pertain to physical safeguards? Do you know of a place anywhere which in your opinion should be guarded? If so, guard it. if un able to do so, report it to the foreman or superintendent as soon as possible. We all know that, after some se rious accident which involves personal injury, safeguards are installed. Some times a similar accident has to occur a second time before a guard is in stalled. These are not chance state ments, but facts based upon accident records. Do you know of an unguarded belt or gear ? Do you know of a buzz saw, an elevator, or a manhole which needs guarding? What do you know of the condition of your fences, barriers, lad ders? How are the brakes on your trucks and automobiles? Is the steer ing gear O. K. ? Automobile acci dents increase year by year. Are we who have charge of this equipment applying the lessons learned? A man told me a few weeks ago that the service department employees in one of our districts were good when it came to having safety meetings and The Travelers Insurance Company has made a very complete study of ac cidents. As a result of their study of tens of thousands of accidents, they have established what they call their 1-29-300 ratio. They have figures, to prove that for every accident involving serious personal injury or death, there are 29 similar accidents involving slight or minor injury and 300 similar accidents or breakdowns in which nobody is hurt. How many times have we said, "It was lucky nobody was there when that happened," or "We are lucky it was no worse." What else do we do be sides giving vent to these expressions ? In the one case involving serious per sonal injury we investigate and find the cause and apply the remedy. In the 29 or 300 cases, we may or may not do anything of a constructive nature. Experience is a dear teacher. It often takes disaster to make us apply practicing the prone pressure method of resuscitation, but they let the trucks go out with faulty brakes. If we are going to prevent the 20 per cent of ac the lessons learned. After a big dis aster at sea, the marine code is checked up, wireless, life boats, life belts, fire drills are considered and all concerned cidents due to lack of guards, or are vigilant and on their toes. It is faults in physical equipment, we have always safer to travel after a big rail got to apply the lessons without wait road wreck. ing for another accident. After a big fire or explosion like that at the Cleveland C lime, the ques tion of proper storage of films is con sidered and the code rules regarding such storage are enforced. The dang ers of handling and storing such things have long been recognized. The in surance companies and fire under writers have covered such things in the various codes years ago. The Cleveland disaster was a case of not applying the lessons learned. It has been said that all great dis asters are blessings in disguise, be cause better things and conditions are a result. This is not true unless we apply the lessons learned. Unless we apply the lessons learned from our accidents and personal injuries, they have happened in vain. What about the 80 per cent of the personal injuries which pertain en tirely to the human element? What lessons do we fail to apply in these cases? What are the fundamental causes of these accidents? 1. Class of -work beyond physical or mental condition of injured. We admit after the accident "He was not the man for the iob. He had no busi ness to be where he was. He was slug gish. He was excitable. He had a vio lent temper." We forget that some phase of our work is highly technical. The work requires skill, knowledge and ability. It requires poise. Too late we learn the man did not know. Health and the physical condition of employees have an important bear ing upon the accident record. 2. Lack of proper instructions. This is the second fundamental cause. Sometimes the injured man has re ceived no instructions. Sometimes the instructions are given but no attempt is made to enforce them. Sometimes the instructions are incomplete. Some times the instructions are erroneous, out of date, or obsolete. The super intendent, foreman, or the immediate superior of the injured is primarily to blame for lack of proper instructions. 3. Method pursued not suitable for work. This is often due to inexpe rience, lack of skill, ignorance or poor judgment. Over 50 per cent of our (Continued on page 88) February* 41 Torridaire Hot Pads Receive WORLD-WIDE ENDORSEMENTS Officially Approved by Accident Prevention Committee of American Gas Association .... 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Instant Heat Anywhere To cool the TORRIDAIRE HOT PAD, simply re move the canvas bag from the cover and lay aside. Every TORRIDAIRE HOT PAD is guaranteed to give 80 hours of heating service. It may be used inter mittently over an indefinite period until it has given a total of at least 80 hours of service. CHOICE OF WOOL OR RUBBER COVER TORRIDAIRE HOT PADS are furnished with cither Wool or Rubber Covers. When the life of the mineral compound is exhausted, a New Re charge may be purchased. Bulletin No. 30 gives complete details. ORDER A TRIAL PAD TODAY! DISCOUNTS IN DOZEN AND GROSS LOTS "Everything for Mine and Industrial Safety" -Afine Safety Appliances Co, _____ _ "xjjjjglx ' ' .. Braddock, Thomas and Meada Sts* Pittsburgh, Pa. CLIP AND MAIL COUPON TODAY MINE SAFETY APPLIANCES CO. PITTSBURGH, PA. Gentlemen: Enclosed please find $-------------- -for "which send me postpaid TORRIDAIRE HOT PADS as indicated below: --------------Wool Covered Pads Complete @ $2.50 Each. -Rubbcr Covered Pads Complete @ $2.25 Each. -Extra Recharges @ $1.25 Each. My NamePosition--.. CompanyAddress-- When writing advertisers, please mention XATIOS'AL SAFETY NEWS x itfdSJL s ttin v siurs Safer Newspaper Delivery Cuts Insurance Costs By NORMAN R. HOOVER ( ircnlation Manager, The Sew York World .W'Y organization- employ- M my' fleet- "i motor truckutul hor-e-drnvv n vehicle- turn might have reverted them to the claimant. Many cases which could have been adjusted by an in become aware of the po--ibilitie,-eo-tfigatur were referred to the com reducing insurance expense ami in pany lawyers who settled as best creasing efficiency of hulk itelivery they could, usually to the disadvan only after -nine individual in the organization takes a -peeiiic interest in the matter. That, at least, wu- tage of the company. Almost invariably the defense was perfunc tory or entirely lacking. the experience of the I're-- I'uhli-h- In l!we began to give closer ing fompnny of New York City, attention to tiie entire subject of publishers of The World and Evcttittfj accidents in the delivery of our out II 'arid. put, and the writer took charge of Prior to 192(> the cnmpativ had no the work. One man was appointed organization for accident preten tion and took little interest in the matter, f.ike Top-v, the accidents "just grovved." and their en-ts be gan to reach serious proportions. Motor and hor-e-dra\vn delivery of newspapers printed by the Press Publishing Company is under the upervision of the circulation de partment. Precious to 192(1 there had been delegated to one man in the department, along with other duties, the job of giving what atten tion he could to the investigation of accidents. His chief duty was to look after the. company's interests. Frequently when there were more accidents than this man could inves tigate in one day, many claims were allowed to go he default, and dam to give ids entire time to accident in\ estigation and accident preven tion. With the cooperation of our insurance carrier, periodical meet ing- for drivers were started and ufety lectures were given. These have been continued and have helped in making a marked improve ment in our accident rate. At times we have given cash prizes for the be-t monthly records and these have also helped to maintain interest. The Press Publishing Company operates 41) trucks for the delivery of morning and Sunday editions, and 71 for the delivery of evening editions. Personal injury accidents are covered by the insurance carrier and property damage cases are -el tied direct by the company. Sub- ages were paid when an investiga- -tautial reduction- have been made in both types of accidents. Settle ments for 192!) were less than halt of those for any previous year. This progress in accident preven tion lias been reflected in the reduc tion of ottr personal property injury insurance premium. The premium for 1029 was $13,204 less than the premium for 192(1, notwithstanding the fact that we now carry a $50100,(100 coverage as against a $25">0,000 policy in 192(1. Our 1920 insurance credit was 41 per cent, which, our insurance agent claims, is the largest commercial credit he has yet seen. In 1928 our credit wa- 23 per cent, indicating a further -uh.-tantial improvement during the past year. A little more than one year ago the Press Publishing Company took a membership in the National Safety Council. I am convinced that the knowledge of this has had a marked effect on our men. They are conscious of the fact that each of them is handed with thousands of other drivers in a common effort to make the streets of Greater New York safer. National Safety Coun cil posters and other aids to main taining interest in safety are con stantly before them as reminders of the objective of fewer accidents. ilet tintI the nmc'iina, etnnn and Sunday edi tions nil flic newstands without incidents is the aim nt this qrnn/' of fleet I'i'crntnrs of the Sew York I rent'd. netaw are the trucks Itieli serve the Greater 'lew York area. !`>:bntnry, !n?0 I 43 This is the telephone's mission An Advertisement of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company In this country, a new type of civiliza tion is being reared--a civilization of better opportunity for the average man, comfort and convenience, business enter prise and higher standards that enrich the daily life of all the people. To build for this new age, the Bell System in 1929 expended more than 550 million dollars. These millions were used to add new plant and further improve service. Hundreds of new buildings, mil lions of miles of wire, chiefly in cable, eight hundred thousand new tele phones--these were some of the items in the year's program of construction. At the same time, better records were made for speed and accu racy in service. This American development of instan taneous communication, of fast, far-reach ing speech, belongs not to the few, but to the many. It is the aim of the Bell System to permit each personality to express itself ithout regard to distance. This is part of the telephone ideal that anyone, anywhere, shall be able to talk quickly and at reasonable cost with anyone, anywhere else. There is no standing still in the Bell System. H'lu'ii writwu thhvriwrs, mruniw .V. 17/OA\ I/, S.U'fiTY XEll'S 44 NATIONAL SAFETY X'EU'S Industrial Health A Non-Technical Symposium for Physicians and Laymen By C. O. SAPPINGTON, M. D.y DR. P. H. Director, Industrial Health Division, National Safety Council Work and Health IN a recent analysis* entitled "The Job and the Life Span," Dr. Louis I. Dublin has made some very interesting obser vations. "The work a man does, conditions under which his work is done, and the wages he receives for doing it, determine in great measure, for him and those dependent upon him, the circumstances of his life, the house he lives in, the clothes he wears, the food he eats, and his recreation." One of the most important factors, there fore, in determining the state of any per-i son's health and the span of his life is hH occupation. Although the relationship between occu pations and the length of life and the state of health is not a definite and- simple care, a cause and effect, unfortunately it stiff holds true that hard work and poor pay often go together. Economic pressure is often sufficiently strong to keep men on the jofc after com mon sense and sane medical judgment haye suggested a vacation. It is, therefore, not always possible to say how much sickness and death occurring among wage earners is due to their occupation and how much re sults from other conditions, some of which may in themselves be directly related to the work. Professional workers are not exposed to specific occupational hazards, such as acci dents from dangerous machinery and unsafe processes, inhalation of harmful dusts of various types; absorption of poisons; the necessity for working in excessively hot, cold, or humid places; and the strain which heavy kinds of labor produce. According to Dublin the most important hazard from the standpoint of number of men directly exposed to it is the industrial accident. There are probably twenty-four thousand deaths and three million accidents annually, which are serious enough to cause loss of time from work among the fortyfive million occupied persons in the country. Computing the loss of future working life due to fatal accidents and to accidents which cause permanent disability (and adding the actual days lost because of temporary dis ability) we find that there are three hun dred million days of labor lost to American industry each year. This is the equivalent to the full-time labor of a million men working a whole year. What Has Been Accomplished? Dublin feels that in spite of much admir ably organized accident prevention work, the situation is still very unsatisfactory in our country. Underground coal miners, for in stance, have a death rate from accidents of almost ten times that of clerks and men in other non-hazardous occupations. Coal min ers have a mortality about twice the general average and their expectation of life at Dublin, Louts T., "The Job and the Life Span," Harper's Magazine, January, 1930. twenty is curtailed as much as ten years. In England, on the other hand, miners working in deeper mines have much lower accident rates. Excessive accident rates are also found among certain types of workers, such as electric power and light linemen, structural iron workers, bridge builders, railroad brakemen, hull construction workers, and riggers in Jhipbuilding trades, as well as among sailors, and marine workers and fac tory workers handling explosives. Finally, there is a group composed of divers, steeple jacks, building wreckers and aviators, whose accident hazard is so great that the life in surance companies will either not accept them at all, or rate them at higher premium ets. ](n following the safety movement in America, much money and time has been snAt in fostering programs in industrial ph$\s. The railroad companies probably shdif the best results. For instance, in 1889 ong railroad employee in every 357 was killed in the course of his work. In 1927 the figure had dropped to one in every 1,136. In the iron and steel industries there has been a decline of over 62 per cent in the accident frequency rate and 52 per cent in the severity rate between the years 1910 and 1925.' Especially to be noted are the records of the United States Steel Corporation, a pio neer in accident prevention work. The company has reported that 58,553 employees were saved from serious injury in the period of 1912 to 1928 inclusive, by safeguarding various hazardous processes. This computa tion was based on the frequency of acci dents involving death, permanent disability or temporary disability lasting over thirtyfive days. "Our statistics indicate that gains have been made, but also that the hazards of in dustry have been increasing as the result of changing methods and more widespread use of machinery. Machine processes are more and more supplanting hand methods; the automobile is replacing the horse-drawn vehicle: building operations are conducted on a far larger and more daring scale; chemical substitutes are replacing wool, cot ton and silk. Perhaps the best thing we can say is that the accident record would have been far worse because of the addi tional hazards of industry had it not been for the timely development of the safety movement in a number of our leading indus tries." Other Hazards Dust is next in importance after acci dents as a cause of occupational disability and death. The principal harmful substance is free silica. Exposed to this hazard are many metal miners, ore mill workers, granite and slate quarriers, granite cutters, hard-rock drillers, and sandblasters. The highest mortality rate and the greatest shortening of life are found in those occupations, where there is combined liability to accidents and exposure to hard-stone dust. Mortality in such occupations runs over three times the average. Certain dusts on the other hand may have a protective effect on various, individuals. This is suggested by the peculiar condition found in all parts of the world among coal miners, who have a death rate from tuber culosis lower than that for occupied males generally. Similar conditions are found among cement mill workers. Although it has not yet been definitely established, it has been suggested that lime dust, like coal dust, exerts some protective influence against the development of tuberculosis. The third of the principal occupational hazards is the absorption of poisons, such as lead, mercury, phosphorus, brass, arsenic, benzol, carbon monoxide, and other sub stances extensively used in industry. We might also add exposure to X-ray and ra dium. Unfortunately we do not have even an approximation of the extent of industrial poisoning in the United States because the symptoms of occupational disease are fre quently so obscure that practitioners are often unable to detect them. Many cases, therefore, are not reported in spite of the fact that the laws of a number of states require it. There are some specific facts which we do have, however. The effects of chronic lead poisoning are apparent in the high mortality of painters, from various diseases. The mortality of brass founders from dis eases of the digestive system, tuberculosis and pneumonia is also suggestive. The harmful effects of exposure to exces sive heat and the sudden variations in tem perature is the fourth great occupational hazard. This exposure is found among those who labor in iron and steel mills, foundries, and pottery and glass factories, in engine and boiler rooms, and in the stoke-holes of steamers. These persons are subject to respiratory diseases of various kinds, the death rate from pneumonia being extremely high. The fifth occupational hazard is fatigue. In a recent study of 22,000 iron and steel workers in England, covering a period of over six years, it was found that all men engaged on hot and heavy work had a greater sickness rate than those working in ordinary temperatures; the more strenuous the work the greater the sickness fre quency. Conclusions It is heartening to note that many em ployers have begun to realize that it is to their advantage to cut down sickness and disability among their employees, whether it is occupational in origin or not. American workmen are also displaying widespread interest in all matters pertain ing to health. They are more alive to haz ards of occupation than are workers in other lands. There is every reason to believe that the prosperity of the American worker will continue and that health activities in indus try will be extended. Such standards will result in further reduction of mortality and sickness. February, IQfri 45 WESCOL "THE SPECIFIC GERMICIDE" FOR PROTECTING WORKERS AGAINST OIL DERMATITIS Time lost through sickness is a greater expense to industry, than time lost through accidents. In American factories dermatitis is the leader of reported industrial diseases. HEALTH is the most valuable asset of your workers. Protect them from OIL DERMATITIS by sterilizing all cutting oils and cutting compounds with WESCOL. Oils are always free of germs when new, but become infected during the cutting process. WESCOL is a powerful chemical germicide, readily dissolves in the oil or in the compound and destroys the germs causing dermatitis. WESCOL is guaranteed 16 to 17 times stronger bacteriologicaliy than pure carbolic acid when tested by the "Hygienic Laboratory Phenol Coefficient Method" of the United States Public Health Service. Send for booklet: "Wescol--a practical germicide for use in industrial plants", referring to this publication. W/pCT DISINFECTING CO. YY L. J I t6 BARN ST., LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK Branch Offices in 42 Principal Cities When tentiny advertisers, please mention .VATIO.VAL SAFETY SEWS %,l! I0\'A1, S.U-ETY XEll'S Glass--A Hazard or a Safeguard? Non-shatterable Glass Is Adding to Safety in Automobile Travel and in Many Industrial Operations l.ASS has always been prob C lem tor safety engineers be cause it. has been the cause of the manufacture of a durable and su perior quality laminated glass which would ".ati'fy the present high many serious and costly accidentsst.andards set by present day pur Certain industries are more affected chasers. Gradually each problem than others but few escape paying was worked out until it was consid toll on accidents caused by broken ered that a safety glass could be pro glass--accidents which could have duced which, would last at least the been prevented had some type of life of an automobile---from five to non-shatterable glass been used. >eveti years. Only during the last several years 'File modern laminated glass fac has there been much agitation for a tory must be kept scrupulously clean glass which, when broken, would because the absence of dirt plays an not shower jagged, cutting pieces in important part in its manufacture. all directions. All operators, both men and women, The appalling number of accidents who come in contact with the glass in automobiles have brought this and the plastic material before lami question to a head. Eighty per cent nating, wear white uniforms, white of the cars operating today are cotton gloves, and white hats. Such closed and, as some one aptly care is not for effect but to remove phrased it, are "glass boxes on any possibility of dirt and grease wheels." It has been estimated that coming between the two plates of the majority of injuries to occupants glass before laminating. A few plates of automobiles involved in accidents a day rejected on account of dirt are caused bv flying pieces of jagged would soon cost more than the uni glass broken either by being struck forms and the laundry bills. directly or by shock. It can readily be seen that a glass which would not Details of Manufacture shatter would be a valuable safety As explained before, safety glass is device for the automobile public. made up of two pieces of glass Two years ago only one automo (either plate glass or window glass i bile manufacturer was using safety- with a piece of plastic sandwiched glass as standard equipment, while between. This must undergo four at the time of writing .15 manufac rigorous inspections before it is ac turers include non-shatterable glass cepted as satisfactory. Slight sur as standard equipment. It is safe to face digs, scratches, etc., are re -ay that in a short while every auto moved and it is wiped perfectly dean mobile will leave the factory with of all dust or lint which might have complete glass protection. Common collected on it. The glass going into sense dictates such a step and pub the finished product is also submitted lic opinion will demand it. to severe examinations because the The idea of sandwiching between two sheets of glass an elastic, trans parent substance of a celluloid na ture is not new; in fact, the origi nal patent has expired. During the war considerable safety glass of this use of two pieces of glass doubles the number of defects in the finished product. The glass sandwich must have no more defects in it than one sheet of regular plate glass of glaz ing quality. nature was manufactured for use in If, as in automobile glass, it is fur gas masks and other places where nished cut to pattern, two pieces of the hazard of flying glass was great. glass are cut for each piece of safety Hut the product then manufactured glass being made. These are sent was far below present standards, down to the assembly room together chiefly on account of the impossi and placed side by side on moving bility of seaming satisfactory plas rubber belts. Here women operators tic, or center membrane, and crude scrub the face of the glass with pum laminating processes. After the war, ice as it passes by them. This pum interest in safety glass dwindled un ice is brushed and sucked off as the til the popularity of the closed car belt progresses. The glass then pro and the frequency of accidents again ceeds through the spraying room furnished an incentive for research; where automatic spray guns depos this research to provide a means for it a thin film of cement on each plate. From there it passes into a room where operators place a sheet of plastic, aireadv cut to size, on top of one plate and place the second plate on top of it in the form of a sandwich with the cement covered sales next to the plastic. The sand wich is then taped together and placed in a rubber bag which is made air tight by means of damps. The air remaining in the bag is removed through a one-way uilve by means of a vacuum line and it is then placed in a rack with others similarly prepared. The rack ipiaced in a large boiler-like affair which is dosed and into which is pumped heated water. The racks are so constructed as to allow the water to circulate freely around the hag. As the pressure and heat are increased, the glass and pyralin in side the bags are cemented into a solid piece. The water exerts an even pressure over the whole of the glass, thus assuring perfect lamina tion. After approximately thirty minutes of this heat and pressure the racks are removed, the glass taken from the bags, and the safety glass is ready to be used. The principle of laminated glass is simple. Glass by itself is a brittle and fragile substance. By introduc ing an elastic and tough membrane through its center, the brittleness is overcome. While laminated glass will crack, it will not fall apart be cause each piece of glass is held firmly in place by the center layer of plastic which has, through heat and pressure, become in effect a part of the glass itself. Making Transportation Safer Laminated glass plays a major role in the safety campaign of bus, taxi and street railways operating com panies, because injuries caused by flying glass are common to people using these means of transportation. A certain large transportation com pany in Pennsylvania changed the regular glass in their 350 taxicabs to shatter-proof glass, at a cost of some $8,000. Six months after the change one of the officials of this company stated that during that short time the glass had already paid for itself by eliminating suits for i Continued on page 83) fcbnutry, 1930 n Protect the Skin f Against Heat and Cold,, 4 thin film of this protection is the most effective safeguard against heat and cold. When exposed to extreme temperatures, apply `Borofax'. It protects and soothes the skin. `TABLOID' FIRST-AID PRODUCTS `BOROFAX' v_ a 10% Boric Acid ointment with a special ab sorbent base---should always be on hand for service in every industrial establishment. A typical `Tabloid' First-Aid Product, with ail that this signifies. Order from your Safety Supply House. If you cannot obtain, kindly inform us. sfW - Illustration shows reduced size. Ask for the targe tube when orderinf. BURROUGHS WELLCOME & CO., (U.S.A.) INC. 9 a 11 East Forty-first Street, NEW YORK CITY Associated Houses: London (Eng.) Montreal Sydney Cape Town Bombay Shanghai Buenos Aires Milan (UMMl ' "Keep your `Tabloid' FirstAid complete by maintaining a reserve supply of refills." I Please send me , N.S.N. [ `Tabloid' First-Aid Booklet . Firm Name........ .......................................... .......,, Addrcs*...................... .............. ............ . Individual's Name.. Official Capacity When leritinu advertisers, /'lease mention S'ATIQX.IL b\U:HTV XEll'S 11111 48 A Simple Remedy for a Common Hazard By STANLEY C. HUNTER Maintenance Counsellor XATIONAL SAFETY XEIYS LANT executives who are con Pcerned about worn concrete or steel stairways in their factories 60 per cent sharp sand assures a wearing surface that will not become slippery. Insurance underwriters may eliminate many danger spots baypprove this mortar over wood floors the use of a good grade of emulsified in paint spray booths and in motion asphalt. This substance is marketed picture projection rooms. No better by several manufacturers under their evidence of ability to resist fire could own trade names. he presented. Furthermore, since this As ordinary asphalt is not consid ered an ideal non-slip surface, it should be explained that emulsified material is applied cold instead of hot fas is the case with ordinary asphalt!, it is much easier and safer to handle. asphalt is quite different from the When concrete steps become worn ordinary variety. The emulsified so that they slope toward the front material can be readily mixed with edge, a very dangerous condition water and then used with sharp when steps are wet or slippery, they sand and Portland cement in the pro may be returned to their original portions of three parts sand, one part contour, without chipping or cutting cement and two parts emulsified away the old concrete, by applying asphalt that has been diluted with a thin resurface of emulsified asphalt one part clean water. Such a mortar mortar. This resurface will not be will set in 36 hours so that it may be come slippery, will be more com trucked over with heavy loads; it fortable under foot than either steel will remain resilient, quiet to truck or concrete. over and easy to stand on. Because it has no solvents and has such a high content of sharp sand, such a mor tar will not soften in hot weather. Many industrial plants where con crete steps are in use have metal plates at the front of each step to prevent the edges from wearing The fact that this mortar contains away. These metal strips become smooth and the concrete surface back of them wears hollow under heavy traffic. Such a condition is extremely hazardous, especially where women wearing high heeled shoes are em ployed. An emulsified asphalt mor tar properly applied will remove such danger spots. Where metal treads have been set in the surface of concrete steps, trou ble is often encountered due to these treads wearing smooth. They also become slippery under damp condi tions, as in packing and cold storage plants. The proper treatment is to remove the worn metal treads and fill in depressions with the mortar. One of the accompanying pictures -hows a metal fire escape at a public school in St. Paul, Minn., where the steps are metal channels filled with concrete. As the concrete soon separated from the metal support, water and frost made these steps dangerous. The picture shows these steps after the damaged concrete had been removed and the remaining A half-inch resurface of emulsified asphalt mortar provides a truckway in the mechanical storeroom of Ar mour 6- Co. at South St. Paul, Minn. A safer surface has been provided concrete resurfaced with emulsified asphalt mortar. The mortar bonds with metal, preventing anv moisture getting between the "fill" and the and noise reduced. channel, and this resurface therefore tic-surfacing worn metal and concrete fire escape steps at a public school lit St, Paul, Minn,, with an emulsified asphalt mortar has reduced a hazard. should outlast the metal frame work. Where men work on wood floors often littered with saw dust, shav ings and other matter, emulsified asphalt can be used to prevent slip ping into the dangerous machines. The proper application consists in nailing strips of hardwood, threequarters of an inch thick, at a suit able distance from machines. These strips should be beveled on outer edge to prevent tripping. Inside the enclosure thus made about the vari ous machines, apply a cap-sheet, nail metal lath to the floor, and then ap ply a three-quarter inch coat of emul sified asphalt mortar. This material will not become slippery, and it wil' he comfortable to stand on. It is wat erproof and is a non-conductor of electricity. Another picture shown here gives a view of the main entrance to the mechanical storeroom at Armour and Company, South St. Paul, Minn. Heavy loads are continually trucked in and out of this room six days a week. When originally paved it was thought that brick was the only type of flooring that would wear well un der such heavy traffic. Iron wheel trucking on such a floor became so noisy that it was difficult and un comfortable to perform the clerical duties required in such a room. The five foot aisle of emulsified asphalt now applied one half inch thick where the heaviest trucking is done, has eliminated troublesome noise and has made trucking easier and safer. February, 49 Can Fire in a Spray Booth Tie-up ^four Production? Lux blanket* fire with a harmless gas--without dam aging sprayed parts and without leaving a mess to be cleaned up. ARE you equipped to snuff out fire at * * its first flash--so the men can go right back to work again? Can you kill fire without saturating the finishing room with water and chemicals--so there is no de lay for clean-up? Snuff out a spray booth fire with the Lux Extinguisher and all delay ends there. For the Lux Extinguisher differs in impor tant particulars from other devices. Instead of using a liquid extinguishing agent. Lux blankets the flames with a harmless but fire-killing gas. Lux does no damage to equipment and sprayed parts. It leaves no moisture or mess to be cleaned up. After Lux has been used, your finish ing room is left in the same condition as before--ready for work again. Lux smothers a lacquer, enamel or var nish fire in 30 seconds. It penetrates in a cloud up the hood of the spray booth and around obstructions, killing fire that a liquid could not reach. Whether the blower is on or off. Lux means instant death to the flames. In your finishing rooms, Lux Extinguish ers will assure uninterrupted production and save needless damage in case of fire. A request will bring complete details of Lux without obligation. Walter Kldde&Compatiy,Inc, 140 Cedar Street NewYork LUX FIRE EXTINGUISHING EQUIPMENT lYhen ivritiuq advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEIVS Y. 177Ci.Y If. .77:7')' ,Y/:II'.V tcNEW PUBLICATIONS forthe SAFETY MAN COMPILED BY LIBRARY NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL If further information is desired concerning any of the entries on ibis page, the Librarian will be pleased to assist inquirers. MEDICINE: ITS CONTRIBUTION In the future for prevention of cancer TO CIVILIZATION and heart disease, Wilder makes no particu V<-Mer, E.luanl B.. A.M., M.U., U.Sc., K.A.CS. Medicine, Its omnbution to Civilization. Pub- by the W illiams & Wilkins Company, Hal- timnre, Mi-, Price, $3.00. lar additions to what we have already been taught. _ He stresses the value ot early diagnosis, immediate treatment under proper authority and a cheerful hopeful outlook. COLONEL VEDDER, who is one of the All in all, the volume is worthy of the best known of the medical officers in attention of all laymen who are interested the Army, has presented the industrialist in preventing disease and who want a short, with a volume the significance of which is clean cut description of wiiat is already rather tar-reaching. He has endeavored to known and what can lie expected of the popularize the study of preventive medicine, medical progress of the future. always a difficult task, and lie has succeeded It is a kindly volume, full of easily di admirably. gestible facts that, while stirring no one to The author has set about very cautiously fanaticism, cause the reader to ponder. to outline the reasons for the existence of -- V. i). Marbaker, M. D, disease in the human economy and tells his philosophy in uon-tecluiical phrases. He BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS has even gone so far as to inlay a stratum of human interest in his discussion. Writing from the standpoint at a dispas sionate bystander. Colonel Yedder teaches in very simple and concise phrases the truths regarding preventive medicine and shows more or less conclusively that the individual himself is more or less responsi ble for his own physical weaknesses and deteriorations. When the individual has tailed to protect himself from all the insidious onslaughts at the various microorganisms, miasms and what-not that seem to exist merely to ex Accident Statistics: Great Britain, Ministry of Transport. Report on street accidents to children in Greater London. Published by H. M. Stationery Office, Adastrai House, Kings- wav, London W.C, 2, England, 1020, 22p. Price 2.1 cents, l Pamphlet.) Great Britain Ministry of Transport. Second report on streetaccidents in Greater London. Published by H, M. Sta tionery Office, Adastrai House, Kittgsway, London W.C. 2, England, 1020, 30p. Price 23 cents. I Pamphlet.) terminate the human being, then Vedder Gas Masks: wants educated and knowing medicine called Industrial gas masks abroad. Published in to build up the broken-down resistances by t.`, S, Bureau of Mines, Washington, of the sufferer. D. L., 1029. rip. Free. (Information cir That medicine has been one of the chief cular No. Ii2()6.) contributors to civilization has been long known. It might be safe to say that with out a fair degree of health, a nation cannot exist. Yedder goes a step farther and in timates that some utopia is just around the corner for the nation that refuses to accept illness and disease as essential components Labor Statistics: U, S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Hand book of labor statistics, 1029 ed. Published by the l*. S. Government Printing Office, Washington. D, C., 1929, 914p. Price SI.00. t Bulletin 491.) (Pamphlet.) of life and sets about correcting its own Leather Industry: hereditary, environmental and other weak Retail Credit Co., Atlanta, Ga. Artificial nesses. leather. Published by the Retail Credit Colonel Yedder writes in detail about Co.. Atlanta. Ga,, 1929. xp. Free, (In most of the best known iniectious diseases dustry report. I and in very elementary language describes puite satisfactorily the causes, pathology, prevention and importance of the conditions. Diet and nutrition are very fairly handled and the author always stabilizes his re Mines and Mining: I'. S, Bureau of Mines. Drilling and blasting in metal mine drifts and crosscuts. Published by the C, S. Government i'rint- marks by unusually readable statistics. The writer has not much use for the various fads in health that chronically upset the .American routine. He believes that the well selected, easily digested diet is the one criterion on which the individual can base a normal, heatthv life. With so much erroneous propaganda living circulated among the people regarding tiie glands of the bodv, it is not strange that Colonel Yedder should "take a shot" at all such misinformation and give some succinct and interesting true stories about the glands. In his discussion of the future for pro gressive medicine. Vender waxes almost Ivric in his praise for what the sanitarians,, the industrial medicists and the preventiouists have done to dean up sore spots in INDEX TO VOLUME XX j THE index to Volume XX of the National Safety News (July to December, 1929) has been printed and copies will lie sent to members of the National Safety Council on request. The index forms a twelve- , page pamphlet of the same page | size as the magazine and may be i bound with the volume in perma nent form. The index is recom- .j mended to all members as a handy reference guide in finding informa tion on the various subjects pub lished in the News from month to ; month. i the world's medical geography, mg Office, Washington, D. C., lug'.i, irop. Price 40 cents, s Bulletin ,'Hl. 1 (Pamphlet.) Methods ot some progressive mining companies in placing responsibility for mine accidents. Published by U. S. Bureau of Mines, Washington, D, C., 1929. lip. Free, i Information circular No. 6211.) Morbidity: U, S, Public Health Service, Sickness among industrial employees during the first 4 mouths of 1929, Published by the U. H, Government Printing Office. 4p. Free, t keprmt No. l.'lui from Public Health Reports, Sept. t;t, 1929.) (pam phlet.) Standards: National Bureau of Casualty and Suretv Underwriters, Handbook of industrial safety standards, 1929 ed. Published by the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters, I Park Ave'., New York City. 120p. i Pamphlet,) PERIODICAL ARTICLES Chemical Industry: Burke, \V. j. Health hazards and acci dents in the chemical industries. In Safety Engineering, December, 1929, p. 318-222, Coal Storage: Safeguarding the coal pile. In Factory ami Industrial Management, Fanuarv, 1930, p. 101. `` Construction Industry: The safety program on a New York sky scraper. Definite safety measures on Lin coln Building cut frequency and severity rates. In The American Contractor, De cember 14, 1929, p. 17-20. Electrical Equipment: Richardson, A. X. Installation of trans formers. In Bureau of Safety, Safety Bulle tin, December, 1929, p. 5-7. Employees' Publications: Millar, j. H. Your plant publication--how much will it cost? In Factory and Indus trial Manaqement, January, 1930, p. 67-68. Fire Prevention and Protection: Fire prevention and protection as applied to hospitals. In Safety Bnoineerina, Decem ber, 1929, p. 309-306, ' Foran, E. Checkmating the fire hazards ot the rubber industry. In The Modern Fire Chief, Xovember-December, 1929, p. 7-9. Oil soaked floors make big losses. In I-ire Engineering, December ' 21, 1929, p. 1171-1172. Handling Materials: Handling ties with safety. In Louisville and X'ashvillc Employes' Magazine, Decem ber, 1929, p. 42, 46. Mines and Mining: Forcmanship training proves good founda tion tor safety. In Coni Joe. Decenfher, 1929, p. 723-728. Occupational Diseases: Obetz, \V. F.. Occupational diseases and industrial accidents. In Safety Engineering, December, 1929, p, 513-316. Refrigeration: McGiniey, C. A. Refrigeration hazards and precautions. In Fire Engineering, De cember U, 1929, p. 1121-1126, 1143-1144, Safety Organization: Butler, j. S. Making the small plant safe. In Safety Engineering, December, li)29, p. 285-286. Saw Guards: Safety helps make coffins. In Factory and Industrial Management, fanuarv, 1930, p, 103. ' ' i ' hntiii \\ /'GV/ 1 To Detect Flammable Gases Accurate detection of flammable gases and vapors . . . immediate determination of unsafe concen trations . . . The Union Carbide Company--U C C--Com bustible Gas Indicator provides these added safeguards against avoidable accidents. This new device is simple to operate and is thoroughly dependable. Readings are made direct from the atmos phere being tested. Sampling, with the attendant possibility of dilution and delay for laboratory analysis, is eliminated. Industrial chemists and safety en gineers will find the UCC Combus tible Gas Indicator an indispensable means of protecting life and property and of facilitating work. It is self contained, portable and scientifically correct. Descriptive bulletin on request Distributed by UNION CARBIDE SALES COMPANY Unit of Union Carbide lil4 and Carbon Corporation NEW YORK CHICAGO and SAN FRANCISCO BULLARD-DAVIS, Inc. NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. When writing advertisers, please mention XATIOXAL 5.1FETV XF.WS .3 -i SAFETY |BH3l SERVICE NATIONAL SAFETY MAI'S They Welcome Inspectors DAVIS Fire Blanket A Fire Can't Burn without Air SMOTHER IT! A swing of the arm to grasp the catch-rope and to start the body twirling. The Conroy-Prngh Glass Company Applies the Knowledge Gained and Celebrates a No-Accident Year ENERAL accusations against After the management became con G .small plants as a class for their vinced that organized effort would re lack of interest in safety are unquesd-uce accidents a program of activities tionablv true. National statistics leavweas adopted. The safety program is i little doubt as to safety conditions in conducted through the central safety i the majority of plants but generaiiza- committee which consists of the fore | tions do not give credit to the many man, or forelady, and one or two i small plants which are carrying on ac workers from each department. Meet cident prevention work conscientiously ings are held during the noon hour on and effectively. These plants have the first Thursday of each month. A demonstrated that safety work is lunch is served for which those who largely a matter of executive interest attend pay a nominal sum. Regular and supervisory action, and that the weekly inspections of the entire plant size of the unit is of secondary impor are made and recommendations re tance. ceive prompt attention and action. Many of these plants have shown an Every accident, no matter how trivial, earnest desire to cooperate with the in is thoroughly investigated by the de surance safety engineers and state in partment supervisor and a complete spectors and from these sources have report is presented to the committee. obtained the inspirational and practi Departmental records are main cal help to put the program across. tained, and such items as lost-time, The Conrov-Prugh Glass Company, doctors' bills, cost of first aid supplies, of Pittsburgh, Fa., recently completed etc., are charged against each depart i a year and six days without a iost- ment. Every month each departmental ! time accident, covering 373,000 man bulletin board is given a rating which ! hours of extremely hazardous manu- is announced at the monthly meeting. j facturing operations. For several years Accident records and costs, together i the accident experience of the com- with the bulletin board ratings are I pany had been disastrous and the man used to determine the departmental agement was convinced that accident ' prevention wouid be profitable, if pos| sible. i The company employs an average of standings on a competitive basis. Ban ners are awarded to winning depart ments and these are a source of pride to the winners. 150 workers and the operations con Each new employee at the time of sist of the manufacture of toilet and entrance receives a card of welcome I framed mirrors, wood and metal carrying an appropriate message from | frames, mirror plates, polished plate, the safety committee. He is intro as well as the sale and installation of duced to members of the committee. ! window and plate glass. Before going to work he is shown the Wrapped and Saved The blanket is automatically de tached from the roller to permit an escape from a danger zone if necessary. Blanket is high enough to cover head if necessary. BULLARD-DAVIS INCORPORATED 67 Wall St., New York City 275 Eighth St., San Francisco, Cal. Please send Bulletin No. 902. Name................ .................... Company Address_____ ........ .... .NS.-2 J Safety problems at the Conroy-Prngh Glass Company are settled at the luncheon [ table. All employees are invited to meet tvith the safety committee at the monthly meetings. When, writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS February, 1930 first aid room and instructed to re port all injuries, however slight, for treatment. He is also invited to attend the luncheon meetings of the safety committee. An auditorium in the pub lic school is occasionally obtained for special meetings to which all employees are invited to bring guests. A cordial welcome always awaits the state and insurance inspectors. .The management regards them as friends and appreciates their calling attention to any hazards that have been over looked. There is a minimum of complicated records and detail work in the safety program. The results are dependent almost entirely upon executive interest and supervisory responsibility. The management's genuine appreciation of safety work and its results was ex pressed by Charles P. Wuertenberger, superintendent of the company in a letter to H. H. Richardson, chief safety engineer for the Standard Acci dent Insurance Company, as follows: "It seems to us that your selling us the idea of safety first was the great est accomplishment of your inspec tors." ' He can't use his hands because he hurt his foot ~ ~ Off the job a day or two--perhaps a week or two-- merely because his buddy dropped a hammer on his toe. Meantime an idle machine--work delayed Spanish Publications Extend Safety's Influence (Continued from page 32) and interrupted--lost time and lost money for the man and the company. "Star Brand" Safety Shoes are made to prevent just such minor foot injuries. The safety box-toe copy of this pamphlet arrived in the office of the Caribbean Petroleum Company, at Caracas, Venezuela, South America, and W. T. S. Doyle, the general manager, began to pe ruse it. He at once saw that the information and pictures so plainly displayed in this pamphlet ought to be as valuable to the company's em ployees in Venezuela as they un doubtedly were in the United States. is, in principle, like reinforced concrete. Lying between the full vamp and the outer cap is a metal mesh reinforcement vulcanized between layers of strong "tarfelt," which furnishes extra protection for the toes against blows from falling objects and cuts from sharp edges. Light in weight, they are comfortable to wear. Motor vehicle driving and all traf fic problems are even more difficult in Venezuelan cities than in the United States. The narrow streets, turning square corners and with limited space at intersections, were originally plan ned for horse-drawn vehicles, and this space is further restricted to provide shade from the adjoining buildings. The street saturation point is about reached. This has obliged municipal ities to limit maximum loads of trucks, and truck widths to a comparatively narrow over-all. "Star Brand" Safety Shoes are sold by responsible dealers in almost every in dustrialcenter. Names gladly furnished on request. Robbrts,Johnson&RXnd Or&ncn of international Shoe Co.C-/ St, Louis There is also, especially in the mountainous parts of Venezuela, too much fast and reckless driving. It is a common ambition to take everything "STAR BRAND on high gear, the shifting of gears being considered a reflection on either the vehicle or the driver, or both. Al ways keeping to the right is a rule SHOES not observed by many. The fact that ARE BETTER When writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS 54 XATfnX.lI. SAFETY XEll'S Remove crinoline face cloth Place pad over cut and fasten adhesive The finished bandage--no loose ends uum.* accidents do nut occur is only accounted for by the native ability of BAND-AID Venezuelan drivers who boast an un usual coordination of mind and muscle that is more or less a national charac The Handy Adhesive teristic. Bandage These factors show what fertile ground there is in Venezuela for the sowing of seed such as is contained in BAND-AID is a very effi "Safe Sales Truck Driving.'1 In fair ness it should be said that Venezuelan cient "emergency first-aid" government officials make every effort bandage for small cuts or bad scratches. BAND-AID to correct the unsound practices; many of those who are guilty commit traf, he errors through ignorance. Safe never ravels, never gets in ' S'factices therefore can he made more the way and never makes an unsightly dressing. j prevalent by a continuous educational 1 program. All this was familiar to the exeeu- It works Neatly and Quickly EVERY TIME! [ lives of the Caribbean Petroleum [ Company, both in their Caracas of fices and in Xew York City, the home Packed 100 strips in carton. Send for a good working i headquarters. An inquiry to the 1 National Safety Council as to the pos . -.ibility of securing copies of the Safe sample of BAND-AID. It [ Practices Pamphlet in Spanish was is free. | quickly followed by satisfactory cor respondence. Again the inquirer read ily assumed the duty of having a S Spanish translation prepared. It was made in Caracas under the direction of W. T. S. Doyle, and the pamphlets were hurried into circulation. The Exchange Building, Seattle, Washington (John Graham, Arch. & Engr.. A.W. Quist Co., Gen. Contr*.) The Caribbean Petroleum Company is placing a copy of the Spanish edi tion in the hands of everyone of its sales employees in Venezuela. More over, orders have already come from several other petroleum distributing companies who will make similar dis tribution. Hanna Mines Show Results of Safety Effort Features of Safety la this enterprising Northwest metropolis no buddiag will serve its teniats more efliaendy. Halsey Taylor fountains have been installed because of their features of safety, assuring maxi mum sanitation and convenience in a building. The Hsltey W. Taylor Co., Warren, Ohio. Automatic Stream Control A practical and exclusive feature thatkeepsstream at correct drink ingbeigbt atany pressure. HALSEY TAYLOR DRINKING FOUNTAINS No. 618 Heavy vitreous china receptor: Steel tubing standard and cast* Iron open base for connections, above door line. Gray fin ish. Two-stream pro lector, automatic stream control. One of many desirable types for industry! 4 Write for Illustrated oatatoc showing* complete Halsey Taylor Uae. j OAFETY records in the bituminous coal | O mines of the M. A. Hanna Co., Cleve. land, show the result of steadily increasing i efforts toward accident prevention, Al| though production in 1929 greatly exceeded J that of 1928, only two fatal accidents oc- | curred as compared with six in the preced| ing year. This reduction follows a concentrated : effort of the Hanna company to promote , safety and eliminate lost time accidents. Xew safety organizations were formed in all the Hanna controlled mines early in | 1929, The four mines of the Wheeling X . Lake Erie Coat Mining Company and the Rose mine of the Massillon Coal Mining Company went through 1929 with an almost perfect record. Other mines also achieved . marked improvement over previous years. The average for all mines in the state of Ohio over the past seven years is 300,000 tons of coal per fatal accident. The record of the Hanna company in the past year more than doubled that production. This I has been reflected in management also with 1929 accident cost being less than half that ' of the previous year. Whew n-niiiif? ndnTfisrrf, flense mntftoii SrATTOSrAL S.-IFETY XEll'S February. 19SO Electricity Can Serve In dustry Safely ; " ',, i Continued from page 27) 'i dnnild lit- avoided. Sleeves should lie kept down. Suitable eye protector.-. -Imulrl lie worn by men wurkiug where an electric arc may accidentally In drawn which might1 Hash the* eyes. Approved safetv goggles should al ways be worn to prevent eye injury by Hying particles when chiseling concrete, brick ur stone for the sup- , ports of wiring devices or electrical apparatus. Rubber gloves should be used ontv in special cases and care must he taken to see that they are in good condition. Approved safety belts or | other adequate protection to prevent j falling when working in elevated j places should be used, and of course j such devices should be periodically I inspected. t C ircuits: All voltages should lie considered dangerous. A number of cases are on record where contact with 110 volts has proved fatal. Do not approach live circuits closer than the following distances unless the live parts are adequately A guarded bv approved metal shields which are grounded: 730 to 2,300 volts............... 1 toot 2,300 to JO,000 volts...............2 feet 10,000 to 30,000 volts-............ 3 feet Higher voltages are usually not encountered in industrial substa tions, but it may be of interest to note that the safe distance for two millions volts is 45 feet. As already stated, circuits should be made dead whenever possible be fore any work on them is begun. The man to do the work should per sonally see that both the circuit breaker and the disconnecting switch are open. If the construction of the switch permits, it should he padlocked in the open position. If I locking in the open position is impossible, the workman responsi- _ ble for having it opened should ' place on the switch operating mech- I anism a tag bearing his own name j with the statement that it must not be reclosed until the tag is removed. If it becomes necessary for the per- 1 son who tagged the switch to leave ! before the job is completed, lie should go with his successor to the I switch mechanism, remove his own j tag and see that the new man puts on his properly signed tag and as sumes responsibility from then on. An additional safeguard for cir cuits above 750 volts that are being worked on is to short circuit and , IIOLCOMB GARMENT FOR EVERY NEED TXT'ORKMEX objected to wearing " ~ safe clothing several years ago, but now they are anxious to be pro vided with complete safety equip ment. This is because safe clothing has proved itself absolutely essential in lessening personal injury. Holcomb Safety Garments tire made to protect all parts of the body, as shown in the illustration. Gloves, mittens, leggings, spats, sleeves, aprons, helmets, and complete safety outfits--made of asbestos, chrome leather, or fireproofed duck--may be obtained from our complete stock. Write for details! HOLCOMB SAFETY GARMENT COMPANY it.IX VF.-t CTCRERS J18 North Jefferson St. CHICAGO, ILL. When writinn mir,misers, please mention X.ITlOX.tt. SAFETY XEll'S SAT10SAL SAFETY SEWS Get ALL the LIGHT you pay for Regardless of what illumination costs, how much is it really worth to you ? That is to say, what is the value of its use? Clean Reflectors save light -- dirty reflectors waste it. --Makes overhead lamps easily acces sible for cleaning reflectors and changing bulbs. No climbing or electrical hazards. Get new o'i-page Catalog free upon request. Handled by lead in g electrical jobbers. THOMPSON Safety lowering HANG E R The Thompson Electric Co. 1438 W. 9th St. Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. Heats Up (Fast "You bet I like 'em," said Joe. when our camera-man snapped him taking the ternperature, "and what's more they heat up fast and don't blow out in the coldest, windiest weather." It doesn't matter whether the job calls for a No. 5 3 or a heavy-duty BIG BRUTE, the result's the same when you use Wall DREADNAUGHT FURNACES. Write for literature. Sold through jobbers only. P. WALL MFC. SUPPLYiCO. 313* PREBLE AVE., N. S., P1TR0KIRCH, PA. DREADNAUGHT S&Z&BLOW TORCHES DKXADNAUGHT Safety Voraaoe The lime safety featuret--~uied by over 250 utility compa&ie* tko yiTOLS: out for ife, effi cient operation! Brazed tee'l, dou ble check valve, a 1 1 connection! brazed. ground the wires at a point between the source of power and where the men are working. The importance of seeing that such a connection i removed before the switch is re dosed, is, of course, self evident. Dead circuits should be treated as if they were alive, as that develops a cautious nature and may some times prevent an accident caused by another person's error. Operation: Do not handle over 750 volts on hand operated air break switches. Do not open D. C. power circuits with knife switches; use circuit breakers. Do not open disconnecting switches when they are carrying load nor use them to complete a cir cuit. Use the circuit breakers. On circuits above 750 volts, do not operate any disconnecting switches, knife switches, lever switches, etc., by hand, but use the poles especially provided for that purpose. For switches up to and in cluding 15,000 volts, use the 4foot pole and above 15,000 volts to 50,000 volts, use the 8-foot pole. Switches should be left wide open when in the open position and fully closed when in the closed position. Switches should not be closed in a hesitating manner nor by tapping blades against contacts to see if the power is on. but should be closed in a firm, positive manner, using suffi cient force to make full contact of blades. No switch should be closed without full knowledge of the con dition of the circuit. Fuses must not be pulled or re placed unless the line switch is first opened. In circuits where line switches are not provided, a fuse puller should be used. Fuses and cutouts should not be handled with the bare hands. Do not allow oil cans, tools, dusters or wiping cloths to catch in moving parts of machines. In pass ing any switchboard or machine in operation, do not touch it unneces sarily nor allow metal tools or other metal objects to touch the apparatus or its connections. Do not use iron or tin oil cans or any steel or iron tools near field magnets when the machine is in operation. Do not touch nor remove brushes from the holders of machines while their power or voltage is on. Do not stand, sit on, nor pass through belts whether at rest or in motion. Do not use any kind of measuring rule near live circuits. IVfun writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS February, 1930 Do not use a metal ease flash-light around a machine that is in service. Do not operate any electrical switch without the proper authority. Grounding Frames of generators, motors, transformers, starting boxes, switch boxes, etc., must he substantially grounded. . Ground wires on portable'Hectric tools must be connected. The insulation on a wire should not be trusted for protection from shock, as it may have deteriorated from age or exposure. Any circuit may be grounded either intentionally or due to acci dent. It is essential, therefore, that the workman on live wires or appa ratus properly insulate his body by means of a dry plank, wooden plat form or similar means. This precau tion is especially important when working in damp places. Fires KEEK E INIIMIIAI 6C6GLEX Electrical fires may be success fully combated by means of sand or using fire extinguishers filled with carbon tetrachloride or carbon diox ide. Water should not be used ex cept as a last resort and only then when one is sure that all power has been cut off. Soda and acid type extinguishers, or foam type extinguishers should not be used for electrical fires, as the material is a good conductor of electricity. Conclusion The Rules and Regulations as contained in the National Electrical Code have been adopted for the ex press purpose of making electrical installations safe not only in indus try, but in the home, in the office, in the stores, in the pleasure resorts or in 'ny place man finds it to his advantage to use electricity for light, heat, power or recreation purposes. The safety provided by their regu lation is three fold: 1. Protection to the electrical appa ratus itself. 2. Protection from fire hazard, 3. Protection of life. This article may be summarized by four short but very important statements: 1. Purchase only approved devices, 2. Install them in the approved man ner, 3. Maintain them up to the standard, 4. Teach the workman to use his head before he uses his hands. A strict compliance with these four points will make electricity safe for use in industry. IRONCLADS are new--cor rectly new--in design, material and appearance. A newness which embodies an array of fea tures seldom found in one indus trial goggle. IRONCLAD cups are moulded of a new material and will comfortably fit the contour of the face. The sidescreens--interchanging of lenses---chain nose-bridge-- and headbands--all combine to make IRONCLAD goggles what they are. Far above the class of "just another goggle," IRON CLADS are worthy of your investigation. We'll be glad to do oar best to convince you by submitting sample pairs lor in spection and trial in your own plant. Manufactured by CHICAGO EYE THIELE COMPANY 23CC WAR KEN AYE. CHICAGO* ILL. When writing advertisersa please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS XAilnS'.II- ..AAA Y tfajf Do Your Foremen Realize Their Responsibilities ? By C. C GOINGS Safety Engineer, Louisville Gas and Electric Company Even in Winter Out in the open country -- in the teeth of a blizzard whipped by below zero winds -- lines down -- service interrupted -- call the Lineman! Here's a job for skill and nerve -- a tough job at best, doubly tough under these conditions -- of course, the Lineman cannot afford touseanvequipmentbut the best. That's why his pliers and belt -- lag wrenches and climbers -- twisters and come alongs carry the name Klein. A national campaign /or Saf'ety for Linemen it h.'tn% conducted h\ Mathias Klein & Sons to ,i,vist m v/fin? tta idea u/ safety to Lin^rum. Distributed through jobbers Four pamphlets o interest to you if you are a lineman or responsible for the safety of linemen. Check the ones you want. Safety for the Pole Climber Q Specification* on Linemen** Belt* and Safety Strap* 'Hie Safety Factor on Linemen** Leather Goods imo KLEIN Pocket Tool Guide &KSon* 3200 BELMONT AVE., CHICAGO K educating foremen the first the iirst time it i> proposed, i have I great problem is to eoinince known foremen who svoited at the them of the responsibilities. They idea until they had an accident and should be made to realize what the file opportunity came to convince answer must be to the following them of the various wavs they could questions: "Will l be held respon have prevented it. The results are sible in case of an accident?" "What they fall in line with the other fore can 1 do to prevent accidents?" "Is men and try to make amends for the a poor excuse or the placing of the time they have lost. blame on some other person or up Having enlisted a foreman in the on faultv equipment enough to sat safety movement, the next problem isfy my own conscience?" G to obtain subject material tor dis No greater impression can be cussion. Among different subjects, made upon a foreman than to create some of the important ones are as an imaginary picture of one of his follows: best men maimed and crippled, and A complete analysis of accidents then show him the numerous ways occurring over a given period and that he could have prevented it. His showing them tiie general trend. answer may be that the equipment For instance, lack of concentration , lie has is second or third class, and is a cause for a number of accidents ! if his employer does not care, why and provides excellent material for I should he. Here lies the safety en discussion, using past accidents as I gineer's great problem and oppor a concrete example. tunity and he must act promptly. Models of dangerous conditions , The foreman's complaints and and open discussions upon the way : suggestions, if he has just grounds to remedy these. tor them, should be acted upon tm- A detailed explanation of some ! mediately by recommending a bet accident occurring in his gang by ' ter grade, of material or an improve some foreman. This will cause a S ment in the methods used. It general discussion by the men, if successful one more foreman is they are encouraged. immediately listed in the cause of And last but not least the training safety and he can be convinced of a of foremen and their crews in first number of ways he can prevent aid to the injured. accidents. To quote one of our foremen, "No Additional suggestions will be .me knows the anguish or feeling of [ forthcoming from the foreman and a foreman, when he stands by his ; his men as soon as they know that tellowman as he travels into that I the management is interested in land from which there is no return, | their safety and well being. The knowing that something could he [ greatest possible error is to ignore done if lie only knew how." 1 these suggestions. They must al ways be given consideration. If the ideas are good, they should be adopted by the company; if not, ev- Detroit Fleet Supervisors Organize for Safety : erything possible should be done to j -how the author where his idea is i not practicable. LEET supervisors of Detroit Fhave been organized in a divi sion of the Detroit industrial Safety * One or two hours a week spent in Council which is similar in its or actual contact with the men in reg ganization to the council's Engin ular meetings is educational and eering Divisun. The followng offi creates a fraternal feeling and in- cers have been elected by the Fleet fhience that spurs them on to such Supervisor's Division : Chairman-- a degree of vigilance that accidents I. L. Gilbert, Michigan Bell Tele are materially reduced. Safety clubs phone Company: First Vice-chair or other organizations may provide man---E, D. Doane, Department of the opportunity. Regular safety Street Railways ; Second Vice-chair meetings held monthly are also of man-- T. F. Dobbs, Detroit City immeasurable value. Service Company : Third Vice-chair The idea of accident prevention man--C. F. Buckley, Union indem does not always meet with success nity Company irhen tcritimi advertisers, please Mention XATIOXAL SAFETY XEIl'S February. /QJ/) r.o m Here's the Stuff For a Good Safety Guard .. ...................... We supply all Guard accessories Angles | ready for use Floorposts and Sockets A perforated steel sheet Can be cut to shape and will not stretch or tear. Has a smooth surface with no projections to scratch the hands. Gives good machine visi bility--is easy to keep clean. Strong--Durable THEffARRINeTOR&KlUePERrORATINC 0>- NEW YORK OFFICE No. 114 Liberty Street 5645 Fillmore Street, CHICAGO, ILL., U. S. A. > .1:; SERVICE The Davis Inhalator THE Davis Pressure Reducing Valve --Labeled by the Un derwriters Laboratories -- makes the Davis Inhalator a Safety De vice in a class absolutely by itself. It is also the "last word" in the administration of oxygen and car bon dioxide to victims of gas poisoning and suffocation. BULLARD-D AVI S INCORPORATED 67 Wall Street, New York City 275 Eighth Street, San Francisco, Cal. Please send Bulletin No. 401 to When urilinti advertisers, flense mention S'ATlOS'Af. SAFETY S'EWS 00 A'ATtOSAL SAFETY XElf'S ' warn?////// The a.c...c...e..p..t...e..d... i / y /' / /' / Floor Plate For Safety and Durability! iLODRr LHTE5"CklTBBI mkHN0B8Y''mm NON-SKID >' / / /' y / ./ y / `y y *** / meet every requirement for a non slipping yet long-wearing surface. A Screw Conveyor's Warning WHILE in my infancy, I am harmless. Just a round hollow tube, but as time rolls on and I get my twisted coat of arms around me, 1 become more dangerous. I am hooked to that mighty power known as electricity and it is then while this supreme power has me in j its dutches that I become real dangerj ous and dishonest. They have been tried under all con ditions in every industry, and have stood the test. Write for sample. /, / / i If you give me a finger, I will take an arm. If you give me a foot, I will i take a leg or even a life. Central Iron & Steel Co. i Therefore, I say "Beware" and by j chance if I am to be looked over, I i beg you to free me from that mighty j power bv the means provided. Then t will I insure your safety. Otherwise, I can not. When I have been inspected and am ready for duty, be sure you give me all that belongs to me, which is a cov ering over every inch of my body. See that it is well fastened, too. If you will comply with my few re quests, you may hook me up in high and I can insure SAFETY to one and all. Wm. H. Nolen, | "The Marquette Poet." The Efficient Mail Distributor 6 Big Features 18 Divider*--Cut Have u Many as Desired 2 Metal Red Frant and Back t* Held Shape 3 Padded Adjust* able Sheutder Strap Detachable Reds Heidinp Dividers Label Holder an 5 Each Divider 6 Sal Id Leather Construetlefl No. 1240 Constructed of the best 3-oz. smooth black cow hide with steel rods at top to hold shape. Re inforced b o 11 o m--with studs, adjustable, padded shoulder strap. Size 15 inches long; 10 inches high; 8 inches wide. Price with eight dividers ,............... $18.00 each, list Additional dividers with label holders .................. $ .40 each, list A STRONG, durable carrier for distributing mail, or other litera'SX ture, between departments in office, store or factory. Stock bag has eight dividers--with label holder on each to desig nate departments or officials. Additional dividers may be added by simply removing rods in bottom of bag and adding desired num ber of dividers. Rods are screwed into metal plate at front inside of bag--a few turns will detach them, and they are readily replaced. The CLEVELAND LEATHER GOODS CO. i }26-28 Noble Court, N. W. DEPT. D Cleveland, Ohio Award Safety Trophies to Cement Plants TROPHIES awarded to the win ning cement mills in a fourmonth no-accident campaign were presented at the Annual meeting of the Nazareth Division of the Lehigh Valley Safety Council on December 23. The winners were Hercules Cement Corporation, Nazareth Ce ment Company and Lone Star Ce ment Company. The meeting was held in compli ance with the regulations of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry which specify that all industrial plants employing more than 150 men must hold two mass meetings of employees each year. Cooperating with the cement com panies in the meeting were the Naz areth Public Schools and the Nazareth Chamber of Commerce. The trophies were presented by Morris Fortuin, general manager of the Pennsylvania - Dixie Cement Corporation and past president of the Lehigh Valley Safety Council. Safety talks, a talking motion picture, and other entertainment features com prised the remainder of the program. When writing advertisers, please mention NAXIOMAL SAFETY NEWS February, 1930 Permanent Ladders or Portable Ladders? PORTABLE ladders have their place in the factory equipment but ' too often they are used where a per- , manent ladder would he safer and i more efficient, according to an article , in a recent issue of The Michigan Mutual Shop Man. published by the Michigan Mutual Liability Company, Detroit. Mich. There are many overhead places in a factory where stairways are not practicable and perhaps unnecessary, and some kind of ladder is needed to reach them. Included in this category are motor platforms, switchboard plat forms, stock storage decks, crane land ings, etc. To reach these places, we can use the fixed ladder, either rigid or tele scopic, the rolling step-ladder or the portable ladder. The latter is the most common type in industry Per manent ladders are not used more be cause it is believed that they will be in the way. While a portable ladder may be available at all times, it is not eco nomical to use it for permanent stag ings which must be visited regularly, frequently, and often hurriedly. The time consumed in going after a port able ladder will often pay for a fixed ladder in a year's time. What is more important, says the Shop Man, the portable ladder is one of the big ac cident producers of industry, and the fixed ladder, if properly designed, is a good safety device. The telescoping fixed ladder has many of the advantages of the port able ladder, it takes up no floor space, and is always ready to use. One type of fixed ladder described by the Shop Man consists of an ordinary wooden factory ladder mounted between a pair of short verticie channel irons forming a part of the platform railing. The ladder is free to slide up and down between the two channels but it can not be removed. Ordinarily it is latched up 6 '4 feet above the floor, giving ample clearance underneath but within easy reach. When unhooked, the ladder drops to the floor ready for ascending. After descending, the lad der is pushed up until the latch catches. Another variation, but not so good, is hinging an ordinary ladder at the upper end and counterweighting the lower end so that it will come to rest at 6!4 feet above the floor like the lower section of an outside fire escape. Get Away from Scaffolds "Made on the Job" Rough and ready structures of odd lumber neces sarily cannot offer the sure footing of equipment especially designed and built to reach high wide areas safely. For many jobs in any fair-sized plant it's economy to own and use "Gold Medal" Safety Extension Trestles They make better work easier because of the ad justable feature,---give correct headroom where working levels vary,---automatically lock at every level. * '' Write Xrarest Branch for Full Details. THE PATENT SCAFFOLDING CO. Chicago, 1550 Oayton St. Boston, 49 Ellery St. Atlanta, 44 Haynes St., N. W. Philadelphia, 2835 Bridge St. St, Louis, 6168 Bartmer Ave. San Francisco, 270 13th St. Pittsburgh, 1254 Voskamp St,, N, W. L. I. City, N, Y., 3821 Sherman St. GoldBfgddl Safe Ladders andScaffolding forEvery Purpose When writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS til t.!2 DURABLE SAFETY MATS XATloXAL SAFETY XlUr? PersonalsI --Safety ivith Comfort l$j Durable Safety Mats not inly provide an insurance ayahi'-t accidents--lessen dan ger of slipping--luit provide a footing "> vumfortaide as to materially increase efficiency. Another important feature ithe deadening of noise. The tramping of many feet on Durable Safety .Mats is hard ly noticeable, owing to the thick, rubberized fabric. A small investment in Du rable Safety Mats will pay well. We invite your investi gation. HERRINGBONE WEAVE DURABLE MAT COMPANY ?64 Miami Street AKRON, OHIO 2924 Uth Ave. S.W. SEATTLE, WASH, EASTERN SALES REPRESENTATIVES THE BOYER-CAMPBELL CO. Detroit, Michigan PULMOSAN SAFETY EQUIPMENT CO. New York, N. Y. AMERICAN ALLSAFE CO. Buffalo, N. Y. INDUSTRIAL SAFETY SUPPLY CO. Milwaukee, WU. PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT CO. Chicago, 111. SAFETY FIRST SUPPLY CO. Pittsburgh, Pa. MARTIN SAFETY CO. Toledo, Ohio THE SAFETY EQUIPMENT SERVICE CO. Cleveland, Ohio INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS CO. Philadelphia, Pa. The ACME SHIELD Listed as Standard b, tlta Uadsrwrltsrs Labaratortaa Never Out of Orucr Dr. Xorva! D HI Alarbaker h a s joined the head quarters Matt ,,( the National J? Safety Council as assistant ,-jj. rector of the Ip. dustrial Health D i v i s i o n. Dr Marbaker is ;i graduate of the Boston Univer- Hubncr Studio *'*>' ^ 0 O 1 of AT e d ic i n e and hastaken post-graduate work in England, France and Italy. He has hada wide experience in private practice and industrial medicine. During the war he organized hospi tal paper work for the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Cam den, N. j. Later he was a.v.-i-,tant physician for the Ebensbtirg Coal Company. He has also been ship's surgeon for the United Fruit Com pany, during which time he con ducted an extensive study of tropi cal diseases, and served as examin ing physician for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company at Ford Citv, Pa. Dr. Alarbaker has also contrib uted frequent articles to Scribner's and the Ladies' Home Journal. Always Used Over 4000 Sold This Year Alone They Must Be Good Price With Lamp $12.50 ea. Without Lamp 8.50 ea. THE Acme Shield in your plant means but one thing: an instant reduction of accidents at the emery wheel from the moment of installation. The Acme comes to you ready for use--complete with heavy flexible arm, non-shatterable glass shield, and neces sary fittings. It may be had with or without the individual work light. Sold by all machinery supply houses Manufactured by CHICAGO EYE SHIELD CO. 2300 Warren Bird. CHICAGO, ILL. jay E. Hilborn has resigned as personnel manager for the Square D Company, Detroit. -Alich.. to join the sales force of Abbott Laboratories, Inc., in the Pittsburgh territory, Air. Hilborn has also resigned as chair man of the Engineering Division of the Detroit Industrial Safety Coun cil and has been succeeded by Gor don C. Graham, safety engineer for the Detroit Public Schools. X. J. Tackabury, The Murray Corpora tion, becomes first vice-chairman, and Nils Juell, Michigan Steel Corp oration, second vice-chairman. Wil liam A. Rechill. Chrysler Corpora tion. has been elected third vice chairman. Will J. French has been reap pointed as a member of the Cali fornia Industrial Accident Commis sion and as State Director of Indus trial Relations in the governor s cabinet. Mr. French was first ap pointed in 1911 to the newly formed commission and returned to the service of the state about two years 11'hen ivritinq advertisers, flense inetiliim X.lTtOXAL SAFF.TY XElf'S Fi'bnttiry, 1`JS'J ti;> agti under Gowniur Voung'* ;uiministration, in announcing the re appointment, Governor Voting pointed to the reduction of indus trial fatalities during this period. As compared with 7H3 fatalities for 192f>-27, there were *>'25 for the last fiscal year, or a reduction of ItiS, Walter S, Paine has been promoted to he manager of the engineering -alnl inspection department of the Aetna Life Insurance Company and affiliated Companies, and Stanley F. Withe has been advanced to manager of the com panies' publicity department. These promotions have been made to fill the vacancy left hv the death of David Van Sehaack. Mr. Paine has been with the Aetna Companies for 15 years and has been research engineer of the inspec tion department for the past nine years. He organized the research di vision and the special risk division of the liability department. Mr. Paine has been prominent in the activities of the National Safety Council, having served is chairman of the Engineering Section and as a member of numerous re search committees. He is a member of the elevator and cable research com mittees of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and of a num ber of technical committees of the American Standards Association. Mr- Withe, who will be in charge of advertising and publicity activities, has been with the Aetna Companies since 1900 as assistant director of publicity. T1IF. A it,.It W.irM, t > lumhua, Ohio. gets a cleaner plant ami -ave* **1,1 Hi a sear hv u-ittg an "IXVINTIBf.E" f itdu*tnai Cleaner in machine rnn m , Enrage anti -hip ping room*, office*,etc. The strong mctiun *>t thr '! NY INI HU K" rvudili handles the heavy, vuit-uhat greasy dust. Clems Concrete md Creosoted Wood Floors The "TXVINTFBf.E," operated hy one man, cleans on alternate days the packing and storage department*, containing 18,000 sq. ft, of concrete Hnnrs apiece. It abo clean* daily the shipping rnnm`* creosoted wood floor, o,000 sq. ft. of concrete floors in the machine and Mushing room s, and . factory ot her*, Frequently lenmves dust iron? window*, ledges, etc, Sare* One Man and Cleans More Thoroughly J'.v saving one man, the "IN- VIXiiBI.K" its co<t every i* months, Its imrtahihty makes it efisv to operate where floor* are con gested with material, :md to move <etSM-en floor* and buildings, Faster, itmre thorough, and cheaper than hand sweeping. What I* Your Cleaning Problem? There are "INVINCIBLE" Industrial Cleaners for every application. What your cleaning prob lem? Write us today INVINCIBLE VACUUM CLEANER MFG. CO. Dover, _ Ohio, U. S. A. J. P. McGrath, secretary-treasurer of the Georgia Manufacturers' Asso ciation, has been elected president of the Atlanta Safety Council for 1930. Cither officers elected are: Senior Vicepresident--F, E. Shumate, Georgia Power Company; Vice-president, Public Safety -- Richard Dean, Southern Bell Telephone & Tele graph Company; Vice-president. Traffic--C, C, Whitaker, chairman, Mayor's Traffic Committee; Vice president. Home and Education--J. A. Wells, superintendent of schools; Vice-president, Industry--Wilshire Riley, Atlantic Ice & Coal Company, John D. Shuart, treasurer. Spring field Glazed Paper Company, has been reelected president of the Springfield Safety Council, Other officers for the current year are: Vice-presidents--F. M. Kinney, Insurance; E. j. Ruxton. Adams & Ruxton Construction Com pany; 1,. J. Scott, United Electric Light Company; Treasurer--H. S, Kaplinger, Third National Bank A Trust Company ; Assistant Treasurer-- H, A. Sears, Third National Bank N Trust Company. Easier, Safer Way 1b Drain Drums I. Set drum n nu < stand. iL TIs mr against stand. The NEW EARL DRAIN STAND WANE man raim drums or bar'-J reh to dratnln* position with Hie RARL DRAIN'STAND. Easily moved with Dali Bearing Casters, Strong, AU-Stael Welded, construc tion. Model No. 91 handles straight side or bdge drums and wooden barrels. Equipped with Top Roll ers for side bung draining. Price, $10 00, Model 90, no top rollers, for straight side drums only. PtIco, $8,50, If rou handle drums or barrels take adrantage of this SPECIAL OF FER. Order t to 3 STANDS. V%t them .10 days. No obligation to keep them unless you want to, The? must make good or tau send them back. Write for 'hem today. Just mention on "30 Days8 Free Trial-" Thousands now in use. Das Molnas Fomdrjr & Machine Company *78* Wabash Das Moines, Iowa ll'lien witing advertisers, please mention XATIOXAL SAFETY XEII'S (54 * * Seating that Controls Your NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS The Honor Roll Details of No-Accident records in excess of 50,000 man-days, or 200 working days, are invitedforpublication in this department. Records may befor an en tire plant or for a department. Special reportingformsfurnished on request. Make this Year a Profitable One Good posture boosts your production curve in office and factory. Your rev* enues gain or suffer proportionately to the good or poor seating facilities of your workers. The trend and tempo of modern office and industrial production demand modern efficient posture chairs. No longer is the slumped-over, mentally-dulled and phyMcaliy-fatigued worker tolerated. You spare no time, labor or expense in selecting, setting-up and servicing your mechanical units.. But do you do the same for that finest of instruments -- the Hu man Body? Even today you will still find in some plants this greatest of machines, functioning with practically no thought as to its proper postural alignment. Yet top production -- profits -- must first wait upon correct seating and ANGLE STEEL POSTURE CHAIRS provide this vitally-necessary first step. Comfortable, energetic and alert workers produce the greatest of dividends in increased productivity, cut costs and eliminated errors. Let us send a Seating Expert to advise you on your posture chair needs. No obligation, except ours. Start today to make 1930 a profitable year. Mail the Coupon below! No. 276 L.C.-P.V.R. Revolving Chair Height Adjustment: 17 to 22 inches by h*nd wheelundcrsent. Se*t: Rolled front,genuine leath er over curled hair. Backward and forward sliding adjustment. Back Rest: Wing nut adjust ment up and down, tiltmg to de sired angle.Form fitting Padded genuine leather. Finish; Seatand back rest, choice of ^rten, black, brown, tan, red and blue. Steel Parts: Standard, olive green en amel or choice of mahogany brown inot grained) mahorviy red i plain) and black. Castt,y. 2inch diameter steel or Raco swivel type. Gliders optional. Wc <!so make a complete line of Angle and Sheet Steel Equipment for Factory, Shop and Office Ask tor Catalog MAIL THIS COUPON ANGLE STEEL STOOL CO. Plainwcll, Michigan. CD Send Seating Expert. Mail Posture Chair Bulletin. C] Mail Catalog. "C-NSN" Name.............. .................................. .. Address ......... ............. ......................... _ City and State.................. ............ , Bethlehem Steel Co. j The Railroad and Transportation De l partments of the Cambria Branch of the Bethlehem Steel Co,, Johnstown, Pa., on 1 December 31, 1929, completed a no-acci dent record of 178 days. The average number of employees was 835, the mandays of exposure, 148,630. The record was broken by a brakeman who fractured his ankle, catching it under the footboard when a locomotive was derailed. The active interest of the superintendent and workmen in prevention of accidents and intense competition with other depart ments were chiefly instrumental in estab lishing an unbroken record of 373 working days, or 160,017 man-days, in the Coke and By-Product Department of the Cambria Plant. The average number of employees was 429. Mo other department in the plant has yet operated a full year without a lost time accident. Consolidated Gas Co. The Elizabeth Street Branch of the Cus tomers Service Department of the Con solidated Gas Co. of New York completed on December 31, 1929, two years, 654 months of continuous operation without a lost-time accident. An average of 213 men were employed, working 837,089 man hours during that time, lip to the present writing, the record is intact. Duquesne- Light Co. A period of 333 working days without a lost-time accident has been established by the Manchester Shops of the Duquesne Light Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., and unbroken up to the date of reporting, December 27, 1929. The average number of employees is 65, the total man-days, 21,645. The interdivisional accident prevention contests of the Duquesne Light Co. were incentives in establishing this record. A trophy, known as the F. R. Phillips Accident Prevention Trophy, is given to the winning division, and individual members of the winning di vision receive prizes. Kaiser Paving Co. The Kaiser Paving Co., with headquar ters in Oakland, Calif., operated its Gravel Plant at Livermore, Calif., during 1929 without a lost-time accident. There was an average of 35 men employed during this time, and a total of 84,000 man-hours of exposure. The safety work has been di rected by I. J. Rosedale, consulting en gineer, San Francisco, who, besides mak ing inspections and having safeguards in stalled, carried on an extensive campaign among the men. Lake Superior District Power Co. The Ashland District of the Lake Su perior Power Co,, Ashland, Wis., has op erated 657 days without a lost-time accident. The average number of em ployees is 118; the total man-days, 77,526. The desire of every employee in the Ash land District to eliminate accidents has been largely responsible for this record, begun December 16, 1927, and unbroken up to the day of reporting, January 3, 1930. Meadow River Lumber Co. On May 8, 1929, the 59 employees of the Saw Mill and Dimension Mill Depart ments of the Meadow River Lumber Co., Rainelle, W. Va,, completed 545 working days without a lost-time accident. On that date a man was struck with a piece of lumber. Posters and constant work with the foremen made possible this record. Midwest Box Co. The Charleston and Fairmont Divisions of the Midwest Box Co., affiliated with the Container Corporation of America, have completed the calendar year of 1929 with out incurring a lost-time accident. The Charleston Division employs 86 men, the Fairmont, 60. During 1929 they worked 236,093 and 139,891 man-hours respec tively. Both divisions are engaged in corrugated box manufacturing. Public Service Co. of New Hampshire. All departments of the Public Service Co. of New Hampshire, Nashua, N. H., cooperated in establishing a no-accident record of 250 days, or 23,000 man-days, broken on December 13, 1929, when a man fell on a slippery coke pile and caught his hand in a sprocket conveyor. The plant employs an average of 92 men. Organized safety work, backed by strong managerial support, made this record possible. The electric department of the Nashua District has not had a lost-time accident since November 17, 1927, and only two lost-time accidents since December 31, 1924, when the company began keeping accident records. The average number of electrical employees is 35. Shell Petroleum Corporation The production department of the Comar Oil Co., located in the Tonkawa District of the Shell Petroleum Corpora tion, has gone 365 days, or 88,000 mandays, without a lost-time accident. During the period of exposure 250 men were em ployed. The company attributes its year of safety to an earnest desire to reduce cost both to itself and to its employees. The record was unbroken at the time of reporting. Standard Oil Company of Calif. The entire Pipe Line Department of the Kern River Division of the Standard Oil Company of California, at Bakersfield, Calif., participated in a record of 700 days without a reportable accident. This is equal to 98,000 man-days of exposure. The record'was established on December 1 and unbroken at the time of reporting. The Pipe Line Division employs 140 full-time workers. Monthly safety meetings, splen did interest in first aid training, and full investigation of all accidents have been responsible in a large measure for this rec ord, which betters all previous depart mental records. The Labor Department of the Richmond Refinery, Richmond, Calif., employing an average of 235 full-time employees, reports When writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS February, 1930 65 REMARKABLE EFFICIENCY IS THE "INSTANT" LINE (ANTI-FREEZE) You can extinguish more classes of (ires with the new "Instant" line than with any other hand portable fire fighting device. Under tests at Underwriters' Laboratories, this extinguisher put out in nine seconds a fire which requires from 25 to 35 seconds with other types of extinguishers. It not only extinguishes any kind of a fire in a minimum of time, but does not support combustion afterward. Large industrial plants everywhere have standardized on the "Instant" line. Names gladly furnished upon request. Many fire departments are using the "Instant" extinguishers exclusively in hand portable equip ment. Here's why: ANTI-FREEZE. Operates efficiently at 40 decrees be low zero. 2. WOOD AND GENERAL FIRES. Instantly extinfuishes wood and general fires formerly calling for Soda-Acid and Foam. 20 GaL Instant Engine GAS, OIL OR PAINT. Extinguishes fires in gasoline, ** oil and paint, kerosene and grease. 1 % Gal. Instant Listed by Underwriters* Laboratories. Exclusively a Fyr-Fyter product. Built in three iixe, i-gallon, I -gallon hand portable extinguisher, and a one-man operated 20-Gallon Engine. HAVE YOU SEEN OUR NEW CATALOG? Your copy of thi. 25-page catalog contain, the latest development, in device, for combating fire*. A complete library of information which lists many individual items and many illustration., including our complete line of machines and recharges. Send for it today. THE FYR-FYTER COMPANY 105-26 Fyr-Fyter Bldg., Dayton, Ohio. A CHAIN MUST BE SAFE \XTHEX work is heavy enough for a chain " * to be employed, a hazard is present--there is danger of the load's dropping unless a safe, reliable chain is used. The careful selection of raw materials, good workmanship and rigid inspection are three essentials that must he observed in the manu facture of a dependable chain. Tavlor Mesaba Chains have been manufactured with these three prin ciples in mind for 57 years. Only the best ma terials are used--only the most experienced craftsmen are employed. Each chain is rigidly inspected before leaving our plant. Inquiries receive prompt attention. HANDIELECTRIC AND MACHINE WELDED CHAIN S. G. TAYLOR CHAIN COMPANY P. O. Box 1297-F Hammond, Indiana When writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS (50 X.i'itOSf.lL SAFETY .y(Ky The Honor Roll----Contd. Cost No. 202 Lyings No. 515 Helmet No. 2MA. Gloves No. 104 A Partial List of Our Safety Clothing, Aprons Armlets Blankets Clothing Coats Enameler's Mittens Finger (Jots Gloves Hand Pads Hats Helmets Leggings Mittens Pants Spats Sweat Bands Welder's Gloves Hip Leggings No. 505 Malt the Coupon for Complete Catalog The Safety Clothing Co. Manufacturers 3804 Payne Ave. Cleveland, Ohio Date --____________ The Safety Clothing Co. 3804 Payne AveM Cleveland, Ohio Gentlemen: Please send your catalog to Name--------------- ------------.-- Company-------------------------------- Address --.......... .......... ............ ........... . si no-accident period of .">29 working days, or 124,215 man-days. This period was broken on October 11, 1929, when a man riding on a truck was struck by a locomutive. Stevens Hotel, The S3 employees of the mechanical de partment of the Stevens Hotel, on Decemi her 31, 1929, completed a period of 487 days | without a lost-time accident. The Stevens Hotel also reports that the 2! employees in the carpenters and kindred trades have not had an accident since the hotel opened early m 1927. Tenney, Charles H., & Co. SAFETY WASH CAS Three of the organizations under the management of Charles H. Tenney & Co, have recently completed creditable safety records. The Concord Electric Co., Con cord. N. H,, employing 63 men, operated 515 no-occident days, terminated January 1. 1930. The Eastern Massachusetts Elec tric Co., Salem, Mass., employs an average of 22 workers. In spite of the company's hazardous operations on high transmission lines, it has had only one lost-time accident during the 13 years it has been in opera tion, and that was a case of hernia which may or may not have been due to the man's work. During 102!) the Salem Gas Light CY>,, Salem. Mass., went eight consecutive months, or 200 working days, without lost time due to accident. Up to January 1, 1930, the Production Department, with 62 employees, completed 367 working days without a reportable accident. Charles H. Tenney & Co. had under its management during November, 1929, 21 companies, with 3,400 employees working approximately 650,000 man-hours; during that entire period there were hut seven lost-time accidents. Fifteen of the com panies went through the year without an accident. FOR GASOLINE AND OTHER HAZARDOUS LIQUIDS Tide Water Oil Co. The no-accident record of 35 days, or 78,225 man-days, established by the Bay onne Refinery of the Tide Water Oil Co., Bayonne, N. j., came to an end on No vember 5, 1929, when a erane helper met with injury while at work in a dump car. HE Protectoseal Wash Can pro Tvides a safe, economical means of washing all small mechanical parts. It serves also as a time-saving device, for The estimated number of men contributing to this record was 2,236. it is only necessary to give the parts Union Carbide Co. The Union Carbide Co. awards a bronze tablet to any of its plants completing a full several up and down movements to cleanse them thoroughly. A tilt basket, located in the protective well, provides year (1,500,000 labor-hours) without a tabulatable accident. Three plants have re sufficient drainage. cently qualified tor the tablet with records unbroken up to the day of reporting. The Kanawha Works of the Electric Metal lurgical Co., Glen Ferris, W. Va., has a The cleansing well is formed by a fireproof screen cylinder, which lessens no-accident record of 365 work-days, or | the possibility of interior ignition. If 260,233 man-hours, dating from Novem ber 5, 1928, to November 4, 1929. The [ the fluid does ignite, close the lid and Kanawha Works hopes to equal or better the fire is extinguished. its last no-accident record of 731 days, terminated November 26, 1926. The Haynes Stellite Co. has established All Protectoseal Cans are made of i 1 I a splendid record of three years, dating j gauge terne plate, double seamed and | from October 23, 1926, to October 22, 1929. i This is equal to 1,526,920 man-hours. The I soldered. plant is located at ploys 195 men. Kokomo, Ind., and em ! Write for descriptive catalog. The Fremont Works of the National Carbon Co., with an average of 410 em ployees, operated from December 21, 1928, to December 20, 1929, a period of 984,815 man-hours, without a lost- time accident. This plant aspires to better its former rec ord of 654 days, completed August 31.1927. The Protectoseal Company 2X6 No. Sheldon Street Chicago, 111. When tcritnto mlveetisers, please mention .V. ITfOXAI* SAFETY XEll'S i t.,.. v. I't&j More Life Savers Awarded President's Medal XK hundred and seventeen per- O -.un*--men, women and chil dren--are now tile pruud owners of "The I'resident'? Medal." a warded by tiie Xational Safety Council tor living life through application of the prone pressure method re WORKING TO WIN--THE SAFETY TROPHY that'* what (its the while hearted ee-eperatioo af the man la accident preventlen. START THE EMBLEM COMMANDS THE NEW YEAR cfroitnhtacat iplrLlUedt tbtBwIm Trophy or Cup. attent ton and respect due a Imn- t i u \* unshed and Trained Safety Man. suscitation. Any person over ten years of age who saves a life by this method and is not eligible for the WriU for CaU* toe- Original dei teas and s amp tea tutrSSJttld. We make Kmblem Huttons tor every Purpose. Instill or McCarter medals or simi lar awards, is eligible for the Coun cil's medal. Following are recent awards ap Clarence J. William* Williams Jewelry & Mfg. Co. Display Room 41*, PIttiflald Bldg, ff Bast Washington St., Chicago, 111* proved by the Medal Administration Committee of tin: Council: Basil I. Williams, a grade school teacher at Xew Canton, ill., found l.ewis Albert Staff, one of his pu pils, in a tree outside the school house in contact with a 0900-volt circuit. After getting the appar ently lifeless boy to the ground, Mr. Williams applied the prone pressure method until normal breathing was restored. A BETTER SAFETY GOGGLE Mack Booth, Caretta, W. Va., had just completed a course in first aid when he found his nephew and fel low employee, Jasper Booth, appar ently dead from eieetric shock. Put ting into practice his newly acquired knowledge of resuscitation, Mr. Booth was able to revive his rela tive. Paul Kirk, Brooklyn, X. Y., owes his life to the efforts of three young men, Harry J. Dadson, James W. Hassett and Thomas S. Me Kitty. Kirk who had been seized with cramps while swimming, was pulled Note from the water by the three men these features. who applied resuscitation in turn for an hour and a half before normal breathing was restored. Dadson was awarded the medal and Hassett and McKitty received certificates of meritorious service for aiding in saving Kirk's life. Always ready for use. Never mislaid or lost. No irritating elastic band. Non-fogging in ordinary use. Fit any face comfortably. C. A. Bundick. Charleston, W. : Ya., revived Worth Wilson, Shaw- nee Lake, \V. \"a,, from electric shock. Wilson had been leaning I against a wire fence when lightning struck both the fence and the elec tric wires above him. Harry Goodwin and Leon B. Cox Helmet Goggles are worn like a cap and fit like a cap. The eye cups are hung by fibre straps and swing up out of the way, or down over the eyes in an instant. They rest lightly on the face without draw or pressure, yet afford full protection. Six adjustments allow for all possible peculi arities of nose, eyes and head. THEY ARE COMFORTABLE!! Put Helmet Goggles to the test yourself. We shall be glad to send a pair for inspec tion. CARTER-LOCKARD CO. 950 So. Flower St., Los Angeles, Calif. revived John Renner at Oil Field, III., when the latter had been over come by gas while trying to dean out the gas line under his house. mner Carter-Uekard Ce.. 930 Se. Flower St.. Us Aoteles, California. Gentlemen: Goodwin received The President's Send me templets details. Medal, and Cox, who arrived on the scene in time to assist him, was awarded a certificate of meritorious 00001/00 Name Address , .......... service, For prindint serviee O For weldinp service t.j When writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL S.IFHTV Xlili'S I 68 SAFETY 5-6) SERVICE DAVIS SPUR PROTECTOR Protects the Linemen Protects the Spur NATIONAL SAPBTP This Bulletin Board Reflected the Christmas Spirit THE spirit of Safety and the On one side of the center panel of spirit of Christmas were admir the bulletin board was the familiar ably combined in the above bulletifnigure of Santa Claus, safe and board display, arranged by foremen of sound. On the other side was a crip the Rod and Wire Department at the pled Santa Claus with the inscription, Maryland Plant of the Bethlehem Steel "Could This Santa Claus Be Good Company at Sparrows Point, Md. to your Kiddies r" Costs less than one-half the cost of regaffins one pair of climbers OTHER ITEMS FOR LINEMEN'S SAFETY Safety Body Belts Climbers Climbers Straps and Pads Linemen's Gloves Insulated Pliers Rubber Blankets BULLARD-DAvis INCORPORATED 67 Wall St., New York City 275 Eighth St., San Francisco, Cal. Please send Bulletin 1301 describing Linemen's Safety Equipment. Name........................................................ _........ Company........................... ......... Address............... ..... NiS.3 A Check List for the 3. Do you bend over projecting Construction Job nails and form wires? 4. Are floor openings around you LITTLE details neglected create guarded with railings and toe boards? big hazards which may result in serious accidents. Xowhere is this Are safety goggles needed on more evident than on the construction the job? Do vour wear them when eye job where men work aloft and heavy protection is needed? objects are hoisted to great heights. 6. Do you obtain first aid promptly This check list was published in a recent issue of The Builder, an in teresting mimeographed publication issued by Barrett & Hilp, San Fran cisco. With each item on the list are two squares for checking "yes" or for all cuts and scratches and keep wounds protected against infection? 7. Do you know the safe loads for manila rope and steel cable, and the holding power of nails? "no," and the warning "Check up on 8. Can you tell when a scatfold is it." built safely? 1. Are ladders and stairways safe, all ladders having sound rungs and rails well nailed, with top and foot of ladders securely fastened, with hand hold at top of ladder? 2. Are passage ways and work spaces kept free from rubbish? 9. Nine times out of ten there is no trick to safety. Common sense, ordinary care and decent regard for the well-being of your fellow workers will prevent most serious accidents. There is room for improvement on every job. Check up on it. When writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS February, 1930 IVI Never.1 i/uin 11 'earA nifthinq but GRO-CORD Soles! ' EMEMBER two winters ago when I took R that bad spill, Bill? Couldn't walk for three months--arm never has been the same since. Lost all my pay, too. That'll never happen again, believe me!" "Why not?" "See these soles? They're GRO- CORDS -- there's nothing like them for sure footing. They have non-skid cords in them just like a tire. Far outwear leather, too. I've had this pair eight months and they hardly seem at all worn. "Any shoe dealer has them. The best sole for our work is the Munson Heavy Duty. The cords go all the way to the edge of the sole. I don't believe you could slip if you tried, when you have these GRO-CORDS on." 09 ^5 .YON-SKID SOLES and HEELS "Co ret Tire Wear in Erery Pair" TDE MUXSOX SERVICE SOLE b,4ethteearvythdauntyafnittihtwughubhejtrne *g$t*vuttd,firTmhiJt eGttRinOg-CORaDlt tSutrUfata. Atiyeur dealer abtut it. [Lima Cord Sole and Heel Company - Dept, s-f, Lima, Ohio Perks Safety Washers for Grinding Wheels Safety Washers are steel discs, to which a coat of specially prepared rubber has been firmly vulcanized. When the flange is tightened, the rubber is forced into the depressions in the wheel. In this manner the stress in the wheel, due to the centrifugal force, is transferred, through the medium of the rubber, to the metal back of the Safety Washer which in turn with the shaft carries the load. These discs not only hold the wheel firmly if it should break, but they also tend to relieve wheel stresses caused by any unequal flange pressure and thus help prevent breakage. Send Soria Pair on Trial Made in all sizes up to 30 inches outside diameter. Please give outside flange diameters and arbor sizes. Patent No. 1,600,064 rhi* wheel'was 14* dia. by WtM wide and had a Continuous run, at 2,250 R. P. M. Cor 5 hours after being; broken in two pieces. IT HELD INTACT STANDARD SAFETY EQUIPMENT CO. 410 North Michigan Avenue, CHICAGO 1060 Broad^Street, NEWARK, N. J. It'hen writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS ;o x.rr/ov.-iL s.iff.tr v,-(fy Fire Hazards in the Power House By D. G. WILL Chief Electrician, Spy Run Power Plant Indiana Service Corp. ClearVision New Safety stand ards demand FULL VISION as well as ^protection for a gauge glass. Bars, grates, or grills that par tially hide the boiler gauge glasses are inefficient and unsat isfactory to use. Only with Kleervus can you get COMPLETE PROTECTKDN plus FULL vision for the boiler operator. From any angle--from any nor mal distance you can read the water level at a glance---with Kleervus. Inexpensive, easy to install, Kleervus meet every safety requirement. Protect your men --and your good record--by in stalling Kleervus NOW. The Wright-Austin Co. 311 West Woodbridge, Detroit, Mich. m_CBRVIJ "SSAP-CH "GAUGE GLASS %PPRt OTECTORS SIN'CL its discovery, electricity piece nt apparatus will not transter has been classed as (.me of the fire readily to another. greatest of lire hazards, and accord- The first emphasis should he mg to records, the fires caused by it placed on fire prevention. Prevent 'land exceptionally high on the fist, ing fires may not he as spectacular A tabulation of the causes of fires as fighting fires, hut it is much more in power plants over a certain pe effective in the long run. in case riod showed that approximately S2 of an electrical fire, one should al per cent was caused by electricity. ways be on the alert, for here we However, when no definite cause encounter danger from shock, burns can be found, it is very easy to say and flashed eyes, in addition to the a fire originated from some short fire itself. A live wire may lie ex circuit, overload, faulty insulation, posed, conductors may he overheat or some other electrical default. ed. there may lie a short circuit or In many cases where the cause a poor contact. Dangerous equip lias been laid to electricity, if it ment should he guarded or enclosed could be definitely determined, it wherever possible. Insulation and i would be found to be from a mis- adequate grounding are too fre i placed match, cigar or cigaret stub, quently neglected, and their absence spontaneous ignition, or some other is often the cause of serious acci 1 frequent source of fire. Xeverthe- dents or fires. Operators working less, everyone knows that an electric around electrical apparatus should arc will ignite material. When an not wear metal parts on their cloth arc is drawn, whether or not it will ing, and when working electrical ap ignite material within its reach de paratus. whether live or dead, should pends entirely on the intensity of consider it alive. . the heat made by the arc and the | material with which it comes in con| tact. Keep Equipment Clean I If a fire is started from some elec- Generators are the most impor i tricat source it must be in one of tant electrical equipment, and their three wavs---electric arc, short cir hazard lies in the possibility of short cuit, or overheated equipment. The circuiting and arcing. Short circuits first of these, the electric arc. is by , far the hardest to detect and pre[ vent, due to the fact that there is f usually no warning before the ex in alternating current machines gen erally occur at the stator, and in direct current machines in the arma ture or commutator. The sparks plosion. It is also the hardest to from a rotating armature may he control. Although it may be extin guished by a fire extinguisher, it may immediately reestablish itself unless the current is shut off. This cannot be said of overheated equip ment. but to meet constantly in creasing load demands, electrical apparatus very frequently becomes I much overloaded, with the result that disturbances have been created, and in some instances fires have re sulted. thrown several feet, and for this reason it should be kept free from combustible material. The fanning action of a generator greatly in creases the intensity of a fire and due to the fact that the generator is usually enclosed it is hard to control a fire of this nature. This lias led to the development of fire extin guishing systems using carbon diox ide, many of which are in use at the present time. Crowded conditions are especially out of place in any power house. All , equipment should he accessible from all sides to facilitate repairs and maintenance and also to minimize the chance of accident. If well sep arated. a possible breakdown of one in generators of the turbine type, it is possible for fire to pass through the ducts and thus it is important to clean the ducts and generator fre quently in order that combustible material be kept away from the in take or delivery ends of these ducts, otherwise an outside fire mat >e Reprinted with slight abbreviations, from the Satetv Bulletin of the Bureau of Safety, fne. drawn into the generator, or .1 firi U Apm vrifritn iuivi'rtisfrs, Mcnxc im'nthn XATfOXAL SAFETY XEWS i 'brutirv, ntjn "No Accidents" are not Luck Such a record is achieved only after patient effort and careful attention to every detail. However, there is probably no single factor more important in promoting safety than clean floors. Floors that are kept scrupulously clean help to prevent the numerous accidents caused from slipping or stumbling; they also play a significant part in improving employee moraleencouraging workers to be careful and orderly. FINNELL SYSTEM--the efficient i way to dean floors The FINNELL SYSTEM does the work of four men. Not only cheaper but far better than hand methods. The fast moving brushes of the FINNELL Electric Scrubbing Machine dig down beneath the grime and grease, routing every particle of dirt. The new FINNELL Vacuum Mopper absorbs water from the floor, leaving it practically dry. A FINNELL representative will be glad to make a survey of your floor space and recommend which of the eight FINNELL models would best serve your needs. Address FINNELL SYSTEM, INC., 1002 East Street, Elkhart, Indiana. WAXES FINNELL SCRUBS POLISHES ELECTRIC FLOOR MACHINE SANDS GARDTOE--INDUSTRY'S CHOICE ONSTRUCTED especially for use in steel e mills, automotive plants, shops, etc., the GARDTOE "Factory Special" Shoe, No. 7991, has been found to be highly satisfactory for general industrial wear. This sturdy shoe has the Reinforced Pat ented Box Toe, Leather Nailed Sole, Leather Heel, and other features responsible for the general use of GARDTOES throughout In dustry. Many plants have a GARDTOE department to supply their workmen with this unusual foot protection. There is no better method of lessen ing lost time from foot injuries. Send the coupon for detailed information. CHIPPEWA SHOE MFG. CO. Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin 5 CHIPPEWA SHOE MFG. CO., I Chippewa Falls, Wis, t Gentlemen: ^ "'Please *end us pair* of No, 71*91 GARDTOE *hne<* f site ....... . for ten day*' free examination, ^ release send us details concerning: a GARDTOE Department, J Company ......... J Address J Wame i Position irtfeu iyrttni'i aaverttsers, pteaw mettUoti X.U (OX.U, SJFfiTV KFM'S '} NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS INDUSTRIAL LEADERS ENDORSE FOOT PROTECTION Executives in all phases of Industry are constantly urging workmen to pro tect their feet. They realize its importance in increasing production. Many plants supply em ployees with S a n k e y Guards, for a workman equipped with this sound foot protection is not wor ried about foot injuries-- he keeps his mind on his work. Industrial executives realize the necessity of keeping a man on his feet and on the job. Sankey Guards will do it. in tile generator may ignite any combustible material which may be at the delivery end. The hazard of oil type switches and circuit breakers is due to the presence of oil which may be thrown from the tanks and ignited by the arc. The oil may be broken down by the high temperature of the arc and the resulting gases cause the oil to foam and overflow, and in some cases it has even been known to ex plode. The only prevention is to keep the switches themselves in good condition and maintain the proper oil level. Fuses of the enclosed type only should be used. Open fuse wire should never be placed in any circuit : no matter how small the load may be. Disconnecting switches must never be opened under load, and to guard against this, the best rule to follow is to make sure the oil switch is open before opening or closing i disconnects. Motors above five - horsepower should not be thrown ' directly on the line, due to the sud. den rush of current through the i motor. ! Locate Transformers Outdoors Transformers are usually consid ered reliable and safe, but may be hazardous if neglected, due to the high voltage feed lines and insula ting oil in the cases. This oil has a very high flash point and is diffi cult to ignite, and usually automatic protection opens the circuit before any fire can occur. However, an arc or short circuit in a transformer has a very high temperature and has been known to ignite.the oil, causing it to boil and overflow. Transform ers are safer when located outdoors. The ground should slant awav so that burning oil will not collect. Fire extinguishers should he tilled and should be in good order. Water, soda acid or foam should not be used on or near energized equipment or lines, as they may conduct enough current to shock the operator. Carbor tetrachloride extinguishers may he used safely on live electrical ap paratus. The power plant is the heart of an industry furnishing the energy which maintains production and service. Fire in a power house will cripple an industry more completely and more readily than any other mishap. Fire prevention, as well as? accident prevention, are both hu mane and economic movements, and should be practiced constantly. When either a fire or an accident does occur, steps should be taken immediately to prevent a recurrence. They Heeded the Slogan Send coupon for details EllwooD SAFETY APPLIANCE COMPANY ELLWOOD CITY, PA. Ellwood Safety Appliance Co. Eilwood City, Pa. Please send us, on memorandum invoice ............ pairs Rigidium. ............... pairs Steel. Sankey Corrugated Knot Guards. It is understood that these guards may be returned without obliga tion if they fail to meet our require ments. Address - ........................................ .................... Your Name .............................................. ..... _ Position ................... MOLTEN lead, hydraulic and Above are a few of the employees pneumatic presses, rolling of the company with the score board mills, saws, overhead cranes, awndhich recorded their progress heavy castings were unable to cause month bv month. John T. Lund, any lost time among the 50 em president of the company, attributes ployees of the Northwest Lead Com a large share of the credit for the pany, Seattle, Wash., during 1929. record to the use of appropriate slo They remembered the slogan, "Be gans prominently displayed. They Sure and Be Safe," and they were helped to maintain interest and were I not sorry. constant reminders to employees. When writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS February, 1930 73 Put an end to these needless infections from cutting oil This powerful, but harmless germicide prevents infections Infections from cutting and coolant oil such as follicle rash, boils, pus-forming sores, skin eruptions--all these come from bacteria and microbes present in the cutting oil. These infec tions are responsible for lay-otfs and absences which in turn curtail production. Mutual aid and corporation insurance rates are needlessly raised. Merely add I'T of Sylpho-Nathol, the one disinfectant that is active in oil, and these infections are banished. Sylpho-Nathol is inexpensive. While not so well known in the industrial Held, it is a tested product and has been used in the New England home and hospital for more than thirty-Hvc years. Sylpho-Nathol is obtainable in I, 5 and 10 gallon cans, SO and 50 gallon barrels. Write for a bulletin describing practical test and ask for free working sample. The Sulpho-Napthol Company 6 Sudbury St., Boston Sylpho ANTISEPTIC DISINFECTANT GERMICIDE PIONEER b. Melter's Goggle Extra heavy white metal thruout, for Furnace Men, 1021 Solid Rounded Cap Joint. 1022 Split Joint. Furnished with Special Blue lenses. GOGGLES Dustproof Model "N" Made of aluminum, very lisfht and comfortable. Rub ber padded adjustable chain bridge and ventilated eveshields ; elastic headbands. For chippers and all exposed to hazards from flying ob jects. Fitted with XL, In dustrie or Laminated lenses. For further particulars write your own jabber, DUPAUL-CENTRAL OPTICAL COMPANY, INC. Designers and Manufacturers of Protection Goggles for a Quarter of a Century. SOUTHBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS When writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS u S'A'lluX.tL < y for Free Burning Fires! T*ted. examined ami UlifitM u\ Lt'sobdureiturwnetvltclwri,' tn (> in anxunianee wilh the r*** ituirement* of tho National Board of FirM'iuierwritm .util ih* Ataoei* Factory Mu* Mai Fire Insur,.me Companies, "AUTOMATIC" CHEMICAL FIRE EXTINGUISHER 2' ; Gallons, Soda and Acid Type tj OR protection against free burning fires in factories, stores, offices, garages, homes and store buildings, the 2y< gallon Soda and Acid Type extinguisher is at all times an added insurance. An extinguisher of this type used at the start of a fire can easily he more effective than the work of an entire fire de partment rive minutes later. Manufacturing a complete lino of Are extinguishers, safety, excelsior and oily waste cans. Send tor the new 1930 Oicner Catalog for prices and complete information. Geo. W. Diener Mfg. Co. 408 N. Monticello Ave. CHICAGO Complete Fire Equipment Supplies Ami Responsible for Accidents? i Continued from page 10) where their little child slept. They were called home by a blazing house, it was too late to save the little one. All they could plead was that the tire was almost nut. that they never dreamed a spark could ffy. As long as there is a burning brand a spark may always Hy. The injuries and deaths front flam mable substances like gasoline, ben zine. kerosene, naphtha, are an old story. Women cannot he persuaded that they are flirting with death when they use one of these substances care lessly. The ignition point in all of them is low. They vaporize readily into highly flammable gases and their explosive energy is tremendous. Everybody knows this, yet in one re cent year nearly sOO women lost their lives in the L'nited States through the careless use of these Hammables, A few years ago, f numbered among my acquaintances in this town a charming and promising young girl, the only child of a hardworking car penter and. of course, his hope for the future. She was cleaning a pair of elbow length kid gloves on her hands and in the kitchen where a gas fire was burning. Her father, knowing the danger, begged her to go into another room. "Oh. father, you are always fussing," she' said, "there is no dan ger." And to prove it the defiant little creature swept her hand over a lighted gas jet. There was an explosion, and she came out with fingers and arms per manently crippled and a frightful scar on her lovely face. People pitied her-- she came to pity herself, yet clearly the responsibility was entirely hers. Possibly our sense of responsibility would he quickened if in youth we should be sternly taught that we will be held guilty if we are injured--at least until we can prove ourselves in nocent. It should be held before us too that we are not the only ones to suffer. This young girl not only crip pled herself hut she ruined her home. Her defiant gesture in the face of dan ger caused a train of misery that can not be calculated. What we need in order to keep alive our sense of responsibility for our own and others' safety is to remind ourselves continually that some of the most terrible tragedies of our day were caused by careless acts of which we personally are often guilty. Take the awful Triangle fire when 100 people lost their lives. It came from a cigaret careiessiv dropped in combustible rubbish. There is -vareelv a household in the country where there are cigaret smokers in which you will not find wood scarred from a cigaret carelessly laid down--draperies set on fire -- waste baskets bursting mto flame. if the matter doesn't go be\i>u,| n little damage--doesn't burn the house down or destroy life, it is treated lightly and the smoker continues to drop eigarets without knowing whether the fire is extinguished or not. You drop a lighted match into the waste basket. So did the man who caused the destruction of the Equitable Life Assurance Society's building in I flit), where six lives were Inst and property worth $'2,000,000 was de stroyed. You allow rubbish to accumulate in your yard nr cellar, ft was a pile of rubbish that caused the l'eabodv School fire in Peabody, Hass., where children lost their lives. You light your Christmas tree with burning candies. Out in Oklahoma on Christmas eve, 1024, lighted candles set fire to a Christmas tree and :)0 children were burned to death. You open the hood of your car with a lighted cigaret in your mouth. So did an important gentleman in Chi cago not long ago. with the result that there was a terrific explosion which killed him and destroyed valuable property. You take your hands off the wheel of your car to light a cigaret. So have others--with the result that they and those with them and possibly innocent passers-hv were killed. Each one of us holds life and death in his hands. A thoughtless, irrespon sible act and not only we hut some times scores of others suffer. Let us frankly admit, we who do not and will not correct our careless wavs, that if as yet we have caused no great dis aster. it is hv no virtue of our own that we have escaped but rather by the grace of God. Veteran Safe Worker Dies From Accident WHILE on his wav to work on the last day of 11)29. Ferdinand Baumann, the oldest employee Mathias Klein & Sons, Chicago, was struck by a street car and killed. Mr. Baumann had been in the service of the company for more than ot years and during this entire period of senice he had never suffered a lost-time accident. When w`ihn<i advertisers, /'lease mealuai Y. ITin X. II. S.IHtiTV Slilt'S of f/bninry, 19JO YES-SAFE ON HOT STUFF! THE only sign that IS safe on electrical equ.pmerit is the Stonehouse ''Non-Conductor." Made of fibre . . . containing no metal . , .it can be safely placed on electrical equipment and handled when in use. The current cannot go thru it. Especially designed and constructed for protecting and safeguarding electrical hazards, where metal signs are dangerous. Specify Stonehouse "Non-Conductor" FIBRE Signs for "hot stuff". SIGNS, INC. The cost of "Greater production -- lower costa" such is the creed of manu facturers today. But with fast er production comes less caution with resulting injuries. This is particularly true with a product like metal box strapping. Its sharp rough ends and edges present a constant menace to workmen's hands and arms. Stanley "Eversafe" Strapping lessens these dangers. Its Round Safety Ends, Round Safety Edges and Smooth Japan Finish do not cut, scratch nor cause infection. Workmen do not have to be as cautious in using this new strapping, con sequently greater production is secured with out danger of personal injury. Approved by many large users as well as by Safety Engineers and Leading Liability In surance Companies. It will pay you to try it. Full description and samples will be sent on request. THE STANLEY WORKS Box Strapping Division Britain, Conn. Faster, Better and Safer Work with Stanley "Eversafe" Box Strapping .Stanley Eversafe Round End Cutter Rn>oUunidngSeanfeiotyusLaddeaviacteornuetsctlwipo. \ wonderful improvement over ordinary shears. rite Stanley Works BoNxeSwtrBarpitpaining, DCoivnisni.on StanSleeynd"Envsefrasallfein"fSortrmapaptiionng.and i implex <f When writing advertisers, please mention XATIOXXf, SAFETY XFJi'S 76 NATIONAL SAFETY ,vm.s SURE-FOOTED WORKERS increase ' production ACME Non-Slip Safety Matting is of the right flexibility to yield gently under the worker's weight, thus reducing the fatigue of standing and permitting more and bet ter work. At the same time it provides reliable foot security--oil, water, or grease cannot remain on the narrow gripping edges. Send for a free sample section, today. New York atat reported 9,832 falls on level surfaces for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929 resulting in 1 fatal and 49 permanent total disa bilities. Compensation totaling mil lions of dollars was paid out. Protect your plant against this slipping haz ard! ACME STEEL COMPANY 2840 ARCHER AVENUE CHICAGO ACME STEEL CO. 2840 Archer Ave., Chicago Please send me a sample of Non-Slip Steel Safety Mats. your Acme Name .......................... ............................................... Address .................... ............................... ..... Company . ............................................ .. Position ............................................................ .. The Government and Safety i Continued from page 38) operatives as the one large plant, had an accident frequency of 34.15. in paper milling one large plant showed an accident frequency of 4.82, while 10 small plants together employing as many as the one large one, had a combined record of 63.IS. In automobile manufacturing 11 plants showed a frequency of 36.12, when one large plant had succeeded in reducing its accident frequency to 0.4. In spite of the apparent trend to ward large-scale production, it is nevertheless true that a tremendous portion of our manufacturing is done in plants of moderate size. The problem of the small plant will, therefore, have to be solved if the record of improvement in safety and accident prevention is to be con tinued. Another change concerning which industrial legislation and adminis tration must bestir themselves is the increasing importance of chemistry in industry. We have always had some occupational diseases but never before have they come upon us with such plague-like rapidity and variety. The new uses of chem ical energy and chemical processes have let loose a flock of new poisons, frequently mysterious in origin and always insidious in attack. In com batting this menace the government must become more alert to the dan gers and exhibit greater celerity in forewarning and forearming those who will be exposed to them. I urge that the government be one step ahead of industry in its ac quaintance with industrial chemis try. The government should not wait until it is called to action by some calamity. We Can Afford to Pause I do not want to shackle the ad venturous spirit of invention, but I believe we are moving forward fast enough to afford the short pause necessary to make certain of safety for the sake of the health and wel fare of our working people and the resultant well-being of our entire population. In the sphere of industrial law making the states are, of course, the primary jurisdictions. The Federal Government has three divisions con cerned with the problems of health and safety--the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the United States Public Health Service, and the Bureau of Mines. Each has to its credit many one unique service, however Zl ? the bederal < lovernment might haS performed but it has failedV, ^ advantage ot its opportunity *' 1 refer to the fact that the Federal Government is in its own riirhVnr^ ably the largest employer of Lbor m the world. Contrary to belief the men and \vome?TM" ploved are not all engaged in clerical work. Several departments operate plants in which the conditions >( work are comparable to those which prevail in private enterprises. The Army and Navy The Navy Department employs over 40,000 men in its yards. The war department has similarly ovc 40,000 employees on its payrolls eu gaged in industrial pursuits. Thes, agencies of the Federal governmem had it in their power to teach a mighty lesson in safety by example and to establish a standard to which private industry might aspire. That opportunity the Federal Govern ment has not seized. There is particular reason for dis satisfaction with the record of the War Department. In 1926 the Navy reported an accident frequency of 17.62 per million hours of exposure. The War Department accident fre quency was during the same year 43.82. That is considerably in ex cess of the average accident fre quency for all industry during that year, which was 27.7. In 1925 the record of the War De partment was even worse. Its acci dent frequency during that year was twice as high as the average for all industries and almost four times the accident frequency reported by the Navy Department. I am authoritatively advised that the work of the Navy Department and War Department is comparable. Why, then, is there so marked a dif ference in their records? Let me name another definite di rection in which the Federal Gov ernment might usefully have taken the lead. The budget of the Federal Government yearly includes hun dreds of millions of dollars for con struction. It spends in that manner more than any other single agency. Of all our industries construction reports the greatest relative number of accidents. The Government does not directly act as employer in i construction work. The projects a When writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS February, 1930 PRESTO BANDAGE A Complete Dressing for Minor Injuries PRESTO BANDAGE contains the three essentials in the treatment of small wounds, cuts and scratches. STERILIZATION: The center gauze pad is treated with a highly efficient antiseptic. AERATION: Presto bandage is the only combination dressing which allows perfect aeration of the wound. PROTECTION FROM IMPURITIES: Although the muslin back of the bandage must be ungummed to permit ventilation, this back is so tightly woven that it prevents the entrance of dust or other foreign sub stance. Furthermore, the medicated gauze lies in con . , stant contact with the v-wound as long as the ....' " Presto Bandage is in use TIME lost in dressing and treating wounds resulting from minor injuries. TIME spent by nurses and First Aid personnel TIME lost from work by employees not injured. TIME lost by men operating machinery who have been injured. MATERIAL wasted on dressings. INTERFERENCE WITH PRODUCTION. The material used in PRESTO BANDAGE is flexible and assures free movement of any finger if applied on joint. --lessening the possibility of infection. PRESTO BANDAGE cuts the cost of FIRST AID by saving-- 65 East Lake St. Chicago, 111. New Rmdif Old Bands** General First Aid Supplies Men do better work when they have that sense of security which comes from wearing Toe Saver Shoes Made and recommended ENDICOTT.loiIYSON Dealers Everywhere When writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS XJTIOX.IL SAFETY XEH'S The Clark Oxygen Carbon Dioxide Inhalator usually executed under contract. But the Federal Government might have written into these contracts a safety code which would have been a practical piece of instruction to the building industry of the country. That it has failed to do. In the short history of the safety movement we first passed through a period of emotionalism. At the pres ent time we are in the midst of de veloping the technique of safety, its rules and mechanics. These have been vital influences in reducing the risk- of factory work. We still re port, however. .'1,000,000 accidents a i year, of which 21,000 are fatal. It , must be apparent that we can not j achieve the final goal of industrial welfare by a mixture of ballyhoo ! and mechanics alone. The realiza1 tion is gradually growing upon us tliat safety can not be isolated as an individual objective; that it is the product of perfect coordination in industry in all its phases; that it is a necessary aspect of civilized busi ness wherein men respect them selves and respect each other where life is highly regarded, where n\au is master of the machine and not its servant. There are thus brought into the scope of those who promote indus trial health and safety a host of cor related problems which concern hours of labor, adequacy of wages, satisfactory housing, opportunities for self-expression and self-improve ment on the part of the worker. The safety movement must eonsciouslv recognize that it both contributes to and is dependent upon the general advance of industrial security. Spontaneous Ignition a Hazard in Transportation THE Clark Inhalator is particularly well adapted for administering the Seven Percent Treat ment, due to the fact that it provides an unlimited flow to the victim and yet wastes no gas whatso ever. It has been tested and approved by the Commit tee on Apparatus of the American Gas Associa tion. Send /or Circular McDonald ENGINEERING CORPORATION 220 Varet Street Brooklyn, N. Y. CHARCOAL is the most hazardous sit reported between 1910 and 1927, product front the standpoint of inclusive: : spontaneous ignition, according to Fires or Charles P. Beistle in a paper pre sented before a conference on the spontaneous heating and ignition of agricultural and industrial products Heatings Charcoal ........................................................ 1009 Alfalfa and Molasses Feeds,................. 20? Rags, oily or wet .................................. 04 Tankage, fertilizer ................................... arranged by the United States Depart ' ment of Agriculture and the National , Fire Protection Association. Mr. Beistle represented the Bureau of Ex Coal, pulverized .....................-................. Oiled or varnished textiles and paper Fish Scrap ................................................ Distiller grains, dried ............................. Iron sponge ..... -........................................ .to 48 40 40 34 , plosives and the Railway Fire Prot*''; tion Association at this conference, i High explosives are practically ex ! empt from this hazard, Mr. Beistle Rubber Scrap, reclaimed rubber ........ Bran .......... .........-..................................-- Wool Waste .......................................-..... Baled Hay ...............-.............................. Cotton Waste, oily ................. -.......... 38 20 18 13 8 | pointed out. Black powder is not sub ! ject to it. and fireworks possess this ; hazard to a very limited degVee. Flam mable liquids have definite hazards in transportation but are not liable to spontaneous ignition. A few of the finished products of the chemical in I dustries possess the property of spon taneous heating and ignition. Charcoal has the property of ab sorbing many times its volume of oxy gen or other gases. The absorption of such a large volume of gas involves the compression of gas into smaller space and hence heat is produced. Charcoal made bv the process of burn ing in pits or kilns is less hazardous than that produced in modern wood Notable among these are white distillation plants. Pit-burned charcoal phosphorus, metallic sodium and po is harder and denser and contains tassium. fused sodium sulphide and much less volatile matter than char calcium phosphide. The fire hazards coal produced by the modern process. of these materials are due to their The Interstate Commerce Commis combining directly with either oxygen sion regulations for the transportation or moisture at ordinary temperatures. of charcoal make definite requirements However, actual losses of these ma of the manner of cooling and the terials are almost entirely prevented amount of air exposure before ship by air-tight and water-tight containers ment of charcoal made by the wood sturdy enough to remain so under nor distillation process, also different re mal conditions of transportation. quirements for lump charcoal and for Many of the materials which have finely divided material such as screen proved to be most subject to spon ings. These regulations are the result taneous heating and ignition in transit of experience in manufacture and are those which ordinarily are not con transportation, supplemented when sidered especially hazardous. Mr. necessary by storage tests made bv the Beistle presented the following list of manufacturers in cooperation with the cases of spontaneous ignition in tran- Bureau of Explosives. When writing advertisers, please mention MATIOXAL SAFETY MEWS I'l'imiiiry, /'W 79 DAYTON Safety ladder t Patented i PORTABLE SAFETY The Dayton Safety Ladder is the workman's safety insurance. It stands on its own feet, and makes each workman secure on his. Confidence resulting from using it creates more and better work per man. Its straight back Type "B" permits close work against walls, Dayton Ladder and makes all corners accessible. Smaller, popular- Airplane spruce construction makes priced, all-purpose it light enough and strong enough ladder of Dayton to carry to the heaviest work. quality. Seven Moderately priced. Sizes 3 to 16 feet Write Dept. NSN-2 for complete information. THE DAYTON SAFETY LADDER GO. ui-iil WMt Third StrMt, Cincinnati, Ohio. Stock carried by Pacific Coast Representatives, Bullard-Davis, Inc., Los Angeles and San Francisco, and by 160 other distributors from coast to coast. This Free Applicator Bottle of MERCUROCHROME will convince you that it is the logical successor to Tincture of Iodine for First Aid Prophylactic and General Antiseptic Use-- RAERCUROCHROME stains as Iodine does, and it is the stain of Mercurochrome, as it is of Iodine, that shows just where and how effectively the germicide has been ap plied; it fixes the bactericidal agent in the field for a relatively permanent period which prolongs the asepsis or the steriliz ing effect, and it provides for demonstrable penetration into the tissues beneath the superficial surfaces. Inasmuch as Mercurochrome is definitely proved an extremely efficient general antiseptic, it is only reasonable to consider it the successor to Iodine in this field, as it is free from the objec tionable features of Iodine, for Mercurochrome does not irritate, burn or injure tissue. Sell yourselves first with this free sample: HYNSON, WESTCOTT & DUNNING BALTIMORE, MD. HYNSON. WESTCOTT A DUNNING Dept. S. Baltimore. Md. Please send me free Mercurochrome Appli cator Bottle for personal use. Name ............. Company...... Address......... IVhen writing advertisers, please mention XATIOXAI, SAFETY XEll'S 80 NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS INDICATES "LIVE" CIRCUIT WITH SAFETY the actual condition of the electrical cir cuit. When placed with the brass cap near a live conductor, a glow will appear in the little window directly over the tube. Before leaving the factory, each Statiscope is carefully tested for Positive Operation. It is therefore recommended that a periodical test be made by the user on a known live conductor, as rough usage may affect the instrument. The Statiscope is designed to give indi cation of Alternating Current potentials of 2300 volts and up. Every industry needs it for the protection of its elec trical workers. The instrument is so handy (it can be carried in the breast pocket) that no electrician can afford to be without it. Send in the attached coupon for complete details. MINERALLAC ELECTRIC CO. 25 N. Peoria Street, Chicago, III. MINERALLAO ELECTRIC CO.. 29 M. PMri* St. CSlHM III. PUaM tend bj toot circular m th* ICacnllw full- IMP*. What One Company Thinks of "The Safe Worker" L'RIX'G the past year the Her Eyes ofcules Powder Company has dis Dtributed The Safe Worker to all em Industryployees at its many plants. This little magazine, which is published monthly for industrial workers by the X'ational Safety Council, now has a circulation of 196,000. It contains safety mate rial presented in an entertaining and instructive manner and is used by a large number of member companies. The appreciation expressed by the Hercules Powder Company is typical of that of other companies which order thousands of copies each month. The Hercules Powder Company has an employees' magazine of outstanding What Are They quality, The Hercules Mixer, but the pocket-size safety magazine fills a spe Worth? cial need in the organization. Follow ing are some of the expressions of appreciation received bv the company's Safety and Service Department: Knowing eye conditions in your plant is just good bus iness. An eyesight survey The Safe Worker is the most original booklet of its kind I ever read--it contains its sermon, masked with a jest. And said jest attracts and holds the attention of more workers than would a booklet of sorrow. Such a booklet would be tossed aside as are uninteresting advertisements. It has a variety, covering many different [tranches of safety, and its influence in help ing make it safe for workers is unlimited. ( Miss) Ruth E. Harris, Hercules Experimental Station, Kenville, N. J. In reply to your request for an opinion of The Safe Worker, I look forward to its appearance. Such a monthly reminder to "be safe" rather than sorry should, and no doubt will, reduce the number of accidents from all sources. It is suggested that responsibility for complete distribution be definitely placed upon one person. For the payroll man, The Safe Worker would surely reach him if it accompanied one of his semi-monthly wage checks. Durain C. Butts, Hercules Experimental Station, Kenville, N. J. gives you the FACTS. Correcting Defective Vision Means Speed and Safety Increased Production Improved Workmanship Fewer Accidents Less Material Spoilage No Eyestrain Headaches Reduced Fatigue Minimized Compensation Claims * Our Surveys discover unsafe eyes and improve the defec tive ones. We give you de tailed information on each employe enabling you to prop erly assign him. I think the little safety book is a grand book and it is read and enjoyed by all the employees. . NO INTERFERENCE IN PLANT ROUTINE. It is a great reminder, teaches many les sons. and makes one safer to himself and his fellow workers. M. W. Lancaster, Hattiesburg (Miss.) Plant. Hundreds of Satisfied Clients. Every One A Reference. I am a faithful reader of The Safe Worker and I want to take this opportunity of telling you how much I really enjoy its contents. SEND FOR OUR BOOKLET, "EYES OF INDUSTRY." I think that The Safe Worker is a very safe guide for anyone--man. woman or child. As I am the father of six children it is a necessity for me to be safe on my job in order to keep it, and by following your rules in Safety, it is easier and even a pleasure to work under such safe guid ance. Not only are the rules interesting to read, but the tittle touches of humor make it even more so. Good luck to all followers of "Safety!" H. A. Murphy, Station B, j Hattiesburg, Miss. i Eyesight Survey Corporation A NATIONAL SERVICE General Offices 4196 Manchester Avenue ST. LOUIS When writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS February, 1930 81 Motor Vehicle Deaths Mount to 31,500 (Continued front page IT) This increase is subject to no revision because of delayed reports and, al though the total population covered represents only 15 per cent of that in the entire country, past years have shown that experience among the policyholders of this large insurance company is especially reliable. Current reports collected by the United States Census Bureau cover large cities of 100,000 population or more. Information now available cov ers the 53 week period ending Novem ber 30, 1939, and makes a comparison with a similar 53 week period ending December 1, 1938. This experience, from cities only, shows an increase of approximately 15 per cent in 1939. In past years this change has been a re liable indicator of what was happening in the country as a whole. A classifi cation of the state reports received, however, into those states predomi nantly urban and those predominantly rural, indicated a somewhat greater in crease in the predominantly urban states in 1939. States and cities reporting currently, month bv month, during 1939, to the National Safety Council, have experi enced, on the basis of present reports, an increase of only 7 per cent in 1939. This figure is subject, however, to two corrections. In the first place correc tions have not yet been received in the majority of instances to take account of deaths occurring after a prompt monthly report was submitted. Re ceipt of these corrections will undoubt edly affect the 1939 record. In the sec ond place this group of cities and states are those that give special attention to the accident problem and it seems rea sonable to believe that the record there would be somewhat better than for the entire country'. Of the four sources of data the last one should undoubtedly be discounted most. Of the remaining three the first source of information covered by far the largest area. As previously indi cated, also, the third source of data, from large cities only, may not quite represent country-wide conditions. Giv ing all three of these sources due weight, an estimated increase of 12.5 to 13 per cent and a total of approxi mately 31,500 would seem not far from the truth. Partial verification of these figures will be possible in the near fu ture when the various states complete 1939 tabulations. <5b IN THIS DAY OF SPEED "Give us Something New and Something Better*' It's the spirit of the times . . . the voice and urge of PROGRESS. --See Redteco (the new warning signal for city use) and Yelteco--the new signal for highways. May tfc tend you a folder tilth all dmtaila? THOS. E. COLONS & CO. 312 Olive St. St. Louis, Mo. 4? .4*8? Mitum ffli SKIDS, ' KILLING MAN Mmqf injured byjj^lbg AutO* OD| r lcyJRb.ds.-~" Several Coasters j uBwaffi, numciED tip bum . ...szZ" siMKRjiK ***** g#tsc manj * lit DEAD. 17 INJURED fflfc nm*, A little sand or cinders would have prevented this. The pro tection against ice is more important than the removal of snow. "HANDY SANDY" Spreads miles of protection at low costs. ST- Walter. Made in two sizes for use with all types of trucks. . Write for Information: HIGHWAY SERVICE, Incorporated, 11 North sixth Street, new Bedford, mass. When writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS si- XJTIOXJL S.IFETV XElfs' LessenYourlnsuranceliates Sixe-- t pint to 5 gallon* Prevent Fire and Explosion How ,tin)ut yOU?--"Your plant?--Tour employees,1 Are yuu tatcm* the fullest safety precautions against tires, explosions, jccuients and other danser ri*k$.; Are vou using modern, onsement, erticient and approved safety appliances to store >-*ur wasre, gasoline, benzine, kerosene, turpentine, naphtha, alcohol and other hazardous explosives and volatile liquids? Play xtttc--follow the example oi thousands ot cautious plant executives--install the latest improved JUSTRITE Safety Appliances TODAY, ' Insurance Companies Gladly Lower Rate Premiums to plants wiio install approx ed, updo-date safety appliances, JUSTRITE Safety Appliances are inspected and labeled by both the Underwriters Laboratories. Inc., and the Associated Factories -Mutual Fire Insurance Companies. Protect your plant--vour employees--install the latest unproved JCSTRITE Safety Device* TODAY. i?ee your dealers or write us tor interesting prices and literature. 1 JasMfe Justrite Mfg. Co. Murray Safety Slings You'll find a Murray Sling to meet every lifting need, as they are made in any style, capacity or length required for industrial or construction use. Only the best grades of wire rope are used in these slings. They are light, flexible and endless. Will not kink or twist upon themselves. p*t. Applied For Murray Safety Chairs A steel safety chair for use in all work where luspension of the workman is necessary. For Riggers, Electricians, Painters. Ship Yards, Sign Krectors, Welders, Tank Builders, Stack Builders, Steeple Jacks, Riveters, Cbippers. Window Cleaners, Furnace Liners, etc., the Murray Safety Chair is ideal. It provides a comfortable and safe position for the work er, and does away with all make-shift and dangerous tcatfolding. Write for Folder* MURRAY SAFETY SLING CO., Inc. Manufacturers and Distributors Safety Slings and Boatswain Safety Chairs 33 Water St., Pittsburgh, Pa. A. R. A. Circular Stresses Winter Hazards WINTER precautions in railroad .vork, made necessary bv the presence of snow and ice, are em phasized in Circular Xo. 2">1, issued by the Safety Section, American Railway Association. Prevention of the formation of ice. wherever prac ticable, is one of the railroad man's duties. Pictures in this circular show the wisdom of sweeping off ice and snow from the footboards of tenders and from grab irons. The man who knocks down icicles from the eaves of a shop or office build ing may prevent a serious accident. During the extreme weather of January and February, 1929, several railroads issued instructions forbid ding men to mount or dismount from moving engines or cars "dur ing prevailing weather conditions." This point is one of the ten sug gested rules in the circular. Another recommends that train men wear short overcoats, as long coats hamper movement. Employees should be warned that when bun dled up in heavy clothing, special care must be taken to look out for approaching cars or engines which may not be heard. Providing ice grippers to be worn on shoes when weather conditions require them is another recommen dation. A spell of severe weather is one time when hostlers should be especially careful never to move an engine without first ringing the bell. Firebrands in the Forest THERE is another cigaret test be side the blindfold one. It consists in determining how long they will burn by themselves. Six popular brands have been tested by government offi cials, and all of them were found, once being lit, to burn steadily until reduced to ashes. Some Turkish cigarets re quired 30 minutes to burn out. The research should be noted by all who throw down lighted cigarets, es pecially in the forests on outings, mo toring and camping trips. These cig arets are firebrands in a dry spot, where there is flammable grass or other litter. And the menace of destruction that lives in every such live discard is far worse than a smoker's pipe ashes or cigar butt. Every person who heads for the tim ber country should heed the warning of this cigaret test. Otherwise he may he the unwitting cause of destructive conflagration.--Minneapolis Iottrnol. tt'lum. writing advertisers, please mention S'ATIOS'AL SAFETY .YEfr.'i February, 1930 S3 Glass--A Hazard or a Safeguard? f Continued from page Ll! damages from flying glass. Lius com pany officials arc <|uicklv realizing that the damage suits from one ac cident would cost more than the cost of equipping their whole fleet with laminated glass. Extreme %care has been practiced hv most operators in the selection of personnel, busses, and taxis are of rugged construction and equipped with the latest safety de vices, such as four-wheel brakes, but through either oversight or the practice of false economy, the ques- ' tion of safety glass has been neg A SAFETY GUARDlected. The chain of safety is no . stronger than its weakest link and the glass problem, under many existing conditions, is the most important link. must meet numerous demands. Every plant has need for a particular kind of Xon-shatterable glass plays a less i obvious, but nevertheless important ! part, in the program of safety engi- I neers of industries other than those engaged in transportation. New uses for this new glass are being found almost daily. It is being used as guards for bandsaws, grinding ina- I chines, polishing machines, rollers' [ guard. Erdle Perforated Metal comes to you in sheets -- ready to be made into reliable Safety Guards--ready to solve your guard problems. It is easily cleaned, strong, durable, practical and highly economical. Let us send you detailed information pulpits in steel mills, etc. Every place where the face of the operator Erdle Perforating Company must be protected from possible fly 171 Yerk Street Rochester, N. T. ing fragments and where clearness of vision is essential, means a place where laminated glass can probably be used to advantage. The enter prising safety engineer is going Fumigate Your Plant through his plant with the idea of utilizing this comparatively new and extremely valuable safety instru ment so as to make it a better and safer place to work for every em ployee. Soap Before Soup DISEASE germs are an enemy to efficient, productive or ganizations--especially at this time of year. During the winter disease usually keeps men from work, which means less production. Safti-Fume, the Universal Safe Fumigant, will greatly lessen the possibility of disease in your plant. It penetrates into places where vermin may be hiding--where these harbingers of disease multiply. Safti-Fume drives pests into the open where they die. Prevent disease--Mail the Coupon! BOSTON <0 /aFETY flMIGANT S CHEMCAL CO. Inc. \/ 522 Fifth Avenue V^ New York, N.Y. ALSO OFFICES IN BALTIMORE PHILADELPHIA HARRISBURG, PA. Be*. U. 8. Fat. Office * Safety Fumigant & Chemical Co., Inc. t 522 Fifth Ave., New York City. fi Please lend rut templets details sf ywir ssrvlea and varleus preduets. { Name ............................ ................................................................................................................ ^ Ceiapany ............. ...................................................................................... ................... jl Address ........................................................................................................................... .. 4 Peslttea .......................................................................................... ............................................. When writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS 84 national SAFETY sews Jobbers Offered-- Attractive and Profitable Line THERE are openings in several territories for jobbers for our line of Ampco Non-Sparking Tools--Scrapers, Chisels, Wrenches, Scoop Shovels, etc. The only durable, spark-proof line of tools on the market. Introduced in 1927; sales increase this year 400%; growing fast. Sold to lacquer and paint plants, powder companies, oil refineries, tankers, etc. The line is complete from Mallets to Chisels, Pipe Wrenches to Scrapers, Cotton Forks to Pliers, etc. Factory stocks big line. No great outlay required by jobbers. Prompt delivery. Write for catalog and samples The American Metal Products Company 1348 Burnham Street Milwaukee, Wisconsin DUST COLLECTORS Sand Blast Equipment and Protective Devices PANGBORN CORPORATION HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND Accidental Deaths IN THE UNITED STATES Compiled by the Public Safety Division, National Safety Council December, 1929 MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS THwiEll 1929 total of motor vehicle deaths be several hundred lower than the anticipated maximum on account of an inclement December in a consider able portion of the country. Had the month been one of generally good driving weather, the death total would probably have been even higher than in December, 1928, which was the highest month of that year. Zero weather and record breaking snows in the December just past, however, kept cars off the streets and resulted in more than a 20 per cent decrease over November, 1929, as well as over December, 1928. While this last month drop will have its effect on the 1929 total, as indicated above, there is insufficient reason to think that the final reports will show materially less than the 31,500 deaths estimated for the year in a detailed article in this issue of the National Safety News. State wide reports, used as one source of infor mation in arriving at that estimate show a 1929 increase of 11 per cent, principally on 11 month data. The receipt of delayed reports by state registrars of vital statis tics, however, is expected to offset the December total that is appreciably less than that of a year ago. Pedestrian accidents were a greater pro portion of the total than usual, such acci dents being responsible for 70 per cent of all deaths. It is also of interest that children figured less frequently in these collisions of motor vehicles with pedes trians. Last August, for instance, 38 per cent of those killed in pedestrian accidents were) children under 15;' in December only 13 per cent were of this age. Motor Deaths Each Day The following estimates are based on monthly reports to the National Safety Council by cooperating states and cities. Corrections are made as new information becomes available. 1928 1029 January ........ . February ...... -- . 58 67 March .............. April ................. May .................. June ...... .......... july .................... August ........ ..... September ....... October ........... November ...... - December ........ . 81 . 68 . 69 . 80 . 86 ,, 04 . 04 . 97 . 05 74 75 85 04 112 101 110 111 81 Honor Roll Six cities with a population of more an 100,000 have reported t^t no motor hide deaths occurred in December. When writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS . February, 1930 85 The Honor Roll--Contd. Punch Press Operators Are Duluth, Minn,; Fort Wayne, Ind.; Lowell, Mass.; X'ew Bedford, Mass.; i Waterbury, Conn,; Wilmington, Del. The following St cities of less than 100,000 population also reported perfect records: Alameda, Calif,; Binghamton, XL Y.; Chelsea. Mass.; Chicopee, Mass.; Decatur, 111,; Everett, Mass.; Fitchburg, Mass; f'ireen Bay, Wis.: Kalamazoo, Mich,; Lakewood, Ohio; Lincoln, Nebr.; Malden, Mass.; Moline, 111,; Pueblo, Colo,; Quincy, Mass.: Racine, Wis,; Salem, Mass.; Shreveport, La.; Wheaton. III.; Wilmington. X. C.i Woburn, Mass. WHEN presses are equipped with the Electro Punch Press Guard, which is a combination of two safety factors--the operation of the press by push buttons and an anti-repeat-mechanism which pre vents the repeating of the press. The Electro Punch Press Guard not only protects the operator by keep ing his hands away from the danger zone, but also enables him to prac tically double his production. Oper ator works in a comfortable sitting position. No fatigue from the onefoot treadle process. You'll want to know more about this guard. Send in the coupon--no ob ligation. HOME ACCIDENTS Home fatalities moved upward in December more sharply even than motor vehicle deaths went down. The rise amounted to almost 30 per cent, and can be charged entirely to increases in two principal groups--burns and scalds, and asphyxiation and suffocation. The result of these contrary movements was to place home fatalities above motor vehicle deaths in December. In 3+ cities reporting both the differences amounted to 15 per cent. Coming Events Associations featuring setfety in their programs are invited to send dates ef meetings SAFETY iB^il SERVICE When a man's Safety Hangs by a Single Strip of Leather March 18, Chicago, 111. Eighth Annual Midwest Safety Confer ence. George G, Traver, manager, Chicago Safety Council, 330 South Wells Street, Chicago. March 24-25, Kansas City, Mo. Fourth Annual Central States Safety Congress, F. C. Lynch, manager, Kansas City Safety Council, American Bank Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. April 15, Newark, N. J. Sixth Annual Eastern Safety Conference, Fred M. Rosseland, manager, Newark Safetv Council, 141 Halsey Street, Newark, XL J. April 25, Dallas, Tex. Southwestern States Safety Conference. C. J. Crampton, manager, Dallas Safety Council, Interurban Bldg., Dallas, Tex. For Sale Only by May 8, Madison, Wis. Safety Appliance & Machine Co. 904 Donovan Building Rock River Valley Safety Conference. A. E. Gillett, secretary, Association of Commerce, Madison, Wis. Detroit, Michigan SAFITY APPLIANCE 4 MACHINE CO. M Omni Blrff., Drtrtlt. Mill,. OfQtlcmM: mt copy of booklet "Taking the Huird Out of Poach Pr*e Operation*. " * Kama ....................................................... .............................. Company .......................................... .. May 27, Erie, Pa. Northwestern Pennsylvania Safety Con ference. S. M. Lippincott, secretary, Erie Safety Council, Commerce Bldg., Erie, Pa. June 28-27, Duluth, Minn. Lake Superior Mining Section, National Safety Council, Twelfth Annual Safety Conference. Secretary, F. S. Crawford, U. S. Bureau of Mines, Sellwood Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Iddrees...................................................................... . Oct. 27-31, Fort Worth, Tex. American Public Health Association, Fifty-ninth Annual Meeting. Secretary, Homer XL Calver, 370 Seventh Avenue, mtWWhWhWMiHHUliiililfclt j New York City. BULLARD-DAVIS INCORPORATED 67 Wall Street, New York City^ 275 Eighth Street, San Francisco, Cal. BULLARD-DAVIS, Inc. 67 Wall Street, New York City Please send me Bulletin No. 1301 on Linemen's Safety Equipment. tLS.-l When writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS so xatiox.il : n:ivi y xnus Prompt Medical Attention Prevents Infection IF YOU ARE INJURED NO MATTER HOW LITTLE made by the safety department of the rail - ( road, directed by Robert Scott, to make the ' record of the Atlantic Coast Line an out- | standing one for 1930, and establish the lowest casualty rate in the National Safety Contest. A detailed plan of awards and announcements to supervising dicers and employees of the railroad are being pre pared. ' The Atlantic (.'oast Line has steadily re duced its casualty record from 2ii.!l.*i per million man-hours in 1923 to ; <i<i during the first nine months of lndti. TELL YOUR FOREMAN IMMEDIATELY No. SOON--Size, 12x18 in. Blue Background--'White Letter*. 18 Gauge Iron. THIS attractive porcelain enamel sign will help you get results. This sign is being used successfully by many of our customers in pre venting losses caused by not reporting injuries. Deliveries from stock. PUT THIS PROFITABLE SIGN TO WORK! Send for Stock Sign Bulletins INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS COMPANY Manufacturers 3729 Old York Road Philadelphia, Pa. Diamond Disc FREE Trial Offer! CHALLENGE SEMI-STEEL BENCH TOP Try it for 30 days - this ideal and safe Bench lop for Mechanical and Assembly Depart ments. Sixe 27x37 inches; 2 inches thick. Shipping weight 275 pounds. Price $40.00 f. o, b. Money back if not pleased. Many other sixes. Write us today for particulars. The Challenge Machinery Co. T*p Dipt. Grand Hu, MlcMsaa (Pat. Jan. 21, 1919) Respirator ^fyORE workmen are acquiring the Diamond Disc Respirator habit; for it is equipped with a sponge in pocket arrangement, which makes it useful when en countering dust fumes and light gases. The Diamond Disc Respirator is small and compact, and is easily carried in the pocket. Its comfort is another feature that should re ceive consideration. Manufactured by The Hygela Respirator Co. 308 East 94th St.; New York City Said by Safety Supply Houses Atlantic Coast Line Offers Safety Trophies for 1930 TO STIMULATE efforts for greater safety on the Atlantic Coast Line Rail road during 1030 several outstanding trophy awards are to be offered. Lyman Delano, executive vice-president, has authorized a special trophy to the chief division officer on the division making the lowest casualty rate due to personal injuries among em ployees in the transportation department. He has also authorized an award to the engineer, maintenance of way and to the | superintendent, motive power departments producing the lowest casualty rate during ' 1030 among employees on their respective , 1 divisions in these two departments. This is in line with the elaborate plans ASSE Chapter Studies Cas Indicator THE detection of eomhustihle gases was the principal subject for tliscus-ioii at the December meeting of the Northern Xew Jersey Chapter. American Society of Safety Engineers--Engineering Section. Xatiotial Safety Council. The subject was presented by j. C. Stephenson, engineer of the L'nion Carbide Sales Com pany, who described, exhibited and demon strated the use of the combustible gas indicator. The indicator is a combination of the Wheatstone bridge principle with the miner's safety lamp and its indications are read directly on a small scale so as to meet the requirements of purchasers. For general use, the scale is accompanied by conversion tables for certain types of gases. The demonstration was made with the use of acetone, properly safeguarded. The device has been approved by the Bureau of Mines for use in mines in the detection of methane and hv Underwriters Laboratories for use in specific cases. The members elected E. L. Spence of the Franklin Baker i n., Hoboken, as sec retary: E. I. Root of the Celluloid Corp., Newark, as treasurer: and A. j. Van Brunt, Public Service Corp., as honorary member of the Executive Committee of the Chap ter. Messrs. Spence and Root succeed Fred M. Rossetand, manager of Newark Safety Council, who resigned because of the pressure of work. Mr. Rosseland will continue, however, to edit the "Chapter Record," and be associated with Hon. John Roach, Deputy Commissioner of Labor on the Public Education Committee of the Chapter. Gasoline vs. Dynamite THE ballistic strength of one kilo of gasoline-air mixture is exactly equal to that of one kilo of HO per cent straight dy namite. says a member of the experimental staff of a large powder company. Since the gasoline-air mixture i theoretical for com plete combustion i contains 13.1 pounds of air per pound of gasoline, however, the strength derived per pound of gasoline is 16 times as great as that of one pound of fin per cent dynamite. Furthermore, since there are about six pounds of gasoline in a gallon, the ballistic strength of a gallon of gasoline, properly mixed with air, is equivalent Jo that of u6 pounds of (50 per cent dynamite. The above comparison, however, is based on ballistic strength only. Because of its exceedingly low loading density and rela tively low rate of combustion, the explosion of the vapor mixture could not compare in locally destructive action with that ot a dynamite charge. Nevertheless, the actual energy relations are substantially as ttidi- s ated. When writing advertisers hiegsc mention XATfOXAL SAFETY YE11 S February, Give Artificial Odor to Protection-- for profit! A Mexican mine furnishes Hard Boiled Hats to its men for 50 cents each and replaces damaged hats free. Hard Boiled Hats cost a little more than 50 cents, but they save a lot more by reducing head accidents. The Hard Boiled Hat is made by a patented process to give head protection. It is sturdy, a non-conductor of electricity, acid- and water proof. .* Details on request BULLARD-DAVIS, Inc. 275 5th St., San Francisco, U. S. A.j 67 Wall St., New York Mexican Distributor Mine A Smelter Supply Co. El Paso, Tex. Natural Gas ecognizing the hazards of R ut'doriess natural gas, the Pacific Gas & Electric Company has issued an official announcement that all natural Cits -erved to its customers will he . given a distinctive ordor. Special tutorizing equipment has already been ( installed in many areas and similar ] equipment will lie put ill at other points as soon as new units in the j natural gas system are ready for serv ice. I Before the gas passes into the mains on its wav to the consumer it is sat urated with an odorant of atomized oil manufactured expressly for the purpose. Three to five gallons of this oil are required for every million cu bic feet of gas. The odorant does its work thoroughly but does not affect the quality of the gas and is unnoticeable when the fuel is being burned. The danger of natural gas was em phasized by a recent fatal accident in Los Angeles. Entering a gas filled room, a young man was unable to de tect the gas and struck a match. | PROTECTIVE I WHEELED dPPrtREL DISTRIBUTORS -------------------------------------- Sf+ Fred K. Blanchard, Inc. Troy, N. Y. Carey Machinery & Supply Co. Baltimore, Md. Cutter, Wood & Sanderson Co. Cambridge, Mass. First Aid Equipment & Supply Co. Los Angeles, Calif. C. D. Genter Chattanooga, Tenn. Gustin-Bacon Mfg. Co. Kansas City, Mo. Industrial Products Co. Philadelphia, Pa. Correspondence The E. A. Kinsey Co. Cincinnati, Ohio Martin Safety Company, Inc. Toledo, Ohio LESSEN YOUR ACCIDENT WORRIES The Wiesman Safety Guard for Punch Press Operators--now equipped with a second growth hickory guard arm--will speed-up your production with safety. Both hands of the operator are protected . . . the guard sweeps the entire length of the Bolster Plate on half the downward stroke of the punch. And returns beyond the center cn half the upward stroke. Write for our 30-day free trial offer. Prove it to yourself. Wiesman Manufacturing Co. 31 South St. Clair St., Dayton, Ohio LOCOMOTIVES AND AUTOS Pti'iyht, III.--I have listened several times to the "Universal Safety Series" and I am writing to tell you how I appreciate them. I am a locomotive engineer and have handled some of the fastest passenger trains on my road--the Chicago & Alton-- and I have had the misfortune to demolish several automobiles and I have seen sev eral struck by trains on other roads. it seems to me that the tourist driver is the most careful and I have noted that it is the local drivers who are the most care less at railroad crossings. The last automobile which was struck by my train was not moving over six miles | an hour but the driver was so sure that i the train was coming from the other direc- : tion that he did not look in the direction from which the train was coming. He t went over this crossing front 25 to -30 times a day, so I was told, This illustrates the ; point that local drivers are the most care less, | I drive an automobile and I use two j rules which have been drilled into my mind J during 28 years of service on a locomotive: j First, when you are not sure slow down to a speed at which you can stop in half the distance you can see. Second, keep your eye on the track (or > road I. Also, keep your brakes in condition to i -top. j I am very glad to sav that I have not j yet had an accident or caused injury to j any person with my automobile. M. j. McKi.v.vev. i The C. S. Mersick & Co. New Haven, Conn. Protective Equipment Inc. Chicago, 111. Safety First Supply Co. Pittsburgh, Pa. Sligo Iron Store Company St. Louis, Mo. Syracuse Supply Co. Syracuse, N. Y. Weldit Acetylene Co. Detroit, Michigan W. S. Wilson Corporation New York, N. Y. The Young & Vann Supply Co. Birmingham, Ala. -H----- ------ ----- - ---------- SAFETY SERVICE By placing your orders with a Wheeler Distributor you are assured of the advantages of close personal contact. Patron ize them. F. H. Wheeler Mfg. Co. 221-230 West Huron Street CHICAGO - - ILLINOIS (then xwriting advertisers, please mention XATfOS'AL SAFETY XEIVS 88 NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS FOR GASOLINE AND OTHER HAZARDOUS LIQUIDS Swabbing Can -- Reservoir tank sup plies liquid a s needed. A safe and ef f i cient means of moistening swabs and sponges. In ease of ignition fire automatically goes out when moisture on top of screen burns away. > f e t y Can -- rdy construc tion throughout. Heavy cast spout. Shock rim base of % steel protects lower seams. Leaks practical ly impossible. Double cylin der screen in base of spout serves as flame baffle. Fire is prevented entering can. Safety present whether cap is on or off. The Costly School of Experience j (Continued from page 40) accidents happen to new men on the job. Labor turnover is a factor to be considered here. 4. Rules and instructions not ob served, Rules are sometimes not ob served, due to disobedience, interfer ence by others, fooling, willfulness, intemperance. Proper discipline is the answer. 5. Mechanical manner of doing work. Lack of concentration, inatten tion, attention distracted, "nobody home," too much stock market, the day after the night before. When ac cidents due to this cause occur every body says, "I just knew it was going to happen, I saw it coming. I wish I had put him on the other job that day." These sayings are some of the shadows which are cast before the coming event or the accident. Let us heed them before the accident. 6. Too much haste. Chance tak ing, short cuts and unsafe practices. We can sum up the accidents per taining entirely to the human element as follows: Bull Dog Safety Shoes Made on a special high last, giving 114 inch clear ance under the safety box toe, are really comfortable. No trouble from the box toe rubbing the wearer's foot. For real comfort, com bined with high quality and long wear, they have no equal. If you are having any trouble with Safety Shoes --try Bull Dogs. Prices and descriptive (aider upnn request. J. D. MacLAURY Distributor 3030 Euclid Avenue CLEVELAND, OHIO Service Can -- Adapted to rapid filli n g and pouring. Full sized nozzle fits fill opening. Screen flame baffle in fill and pour openings. Protection with cap on or off. Cap stops leakage--pro vides seal and pressure relief. r*9 Bench Can --Efficient and eco nomical for moistening swabs and cleanin g small parts. Pressure on screen causes liquid to percolate thru. In case of igni tion fire automatically goes out when moisture on top of screen burns away. Mail Coupon Today for Catalog The Protectoseal Co., 226 N. Sheldon St. Chicago, 111. J TUX PROTECTOSEAL COMPANY, \ SM North Sheldoa St., Chicago, HL # PIRM send us tout catalog "Safttjr D* Ttoss for Hazardous Liquids." ! * t J 5i Kftmi ........................ t5 J Address ...................................................................... J 1. Selection 2. Instruction 3. Supervision They Can't Let Go Make a note about selection, instruc tion and supervision. Are you select ing? Are you instructing? Are you supervising? Do you know the re peater, that is, the man who has two, three, four, five, and six accidents each year? Do you know the fore man under whose supervision the ma jority of your accidents occur? I read somewhere the following: Because-- "When we're up, we're up. When we're down, we're down, When we're only half up, We're neither up nor down." When we have a good accident rec ord "We're up," we feel good and have nothing to worry about. When we have a "half-way" record, it's aver age and we do not do much about it. We're neither up nor down. But when we have a bad record we're down and our fighting blood is up and we will do something about it. Let us not forget the lessons we have learned about accidents. Other wise, they will have occurred in vain. Profit bv the experiences of others. Apply the safeguards and safe prac tices. THmaEkesvetrhye weight of grip more the boiler secure. plate Never Slip Safety Clamps will not skid or slide along the plate. Made in two types for horizontal or vertical lifting. Either clamp may be used for work at an inclination with no possibility of slipping to jeopardize the safety of the workers underneath. The ordinary hook or sliding chain makes perfect balance almost impossible and there is considerable danger in hoist ing with such equipment. Never Slip Safety Clamps are easily attached and removed. Cannot slip. WRITE FOR DETAILS Never Slip Safety Clamp Co. 51 East 42nd St., New York When writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS Safety Poster Service New Use for Old Posters color safety poster and all this against an attractive background? ITH a few old posters having Wbright colors on them, a pair of shears, a pot of paste, and a large piece of cardboard or wallboard, one is fully equipped to prepare a good looking background lor the safety bulletin board. With this equipment, all that is necessary is to cut out patches of color from the posters, piece them together in cut-out puzzle fashion and paste them onto the cardboard or wallboard thus making an all-over multi-color, design with a modernistic touch. Try it. industrial, public safety and industrial health subjects as possibile, availability, due to condition of the older plates, and the analysis of recent demands for certain types and certain standards. This newest publication is most at tractive in design and layout. It has been prepared as a special service to Council members and will undoubtedly be extremely helpful in scheduling and carrying out definite and improved bulletin board work in the plants. The New Poster Catalog The catalogs will be mailed in the immediate future. Be on the lookout Such a display gives the bulletin board a sparkle--puts life into it-- and sets it apart from its surroundings as sonicthing different and well worth looking at. There are hundreds of ways of making a display attractive and it's a fair bet that this board of the White Star Refining Company looks good, not only at Christmas time but also during the other 364 days of the year. There is no limit to the good a pic torial safety message can do if people will but look at it. The art of making it attract their attention is as simple as ABC if one will but use a little imagination and ingenuity. THE history of the safety poster for your copy. If it does not reach in the nation's industrial life is you in due time, write for it. fairly well visualized in the new poster catalog which has just been published Did Your Board Look Like by the National Safety Council. The new booklet, nearly twice as large as This at Christmas? Poster Output Increased THE Poster Division of the Na tional Safety Council is growing bv leaps and bounds. Recent increases any previous edition, contains dose to a hundred pages of poster reproduc tions. It is a complete illustrated in dex to the most effective posters pro WE just can't help publishing a in facilities and capacity for art and photograph sent in by Mr. Kel photographic work now make it possi ler of the White Star Refining Cobmle to enlarge the output in response pany at Wood River, 111. It shows to widespread demands for wider vari duced since the organization of the how a little effort Will make the plant ety in the monthly issues. National Safety Council and might bulletin board the "show window of In the past 41 different designs have well be entitled: "The Best Posters of the safety movement." Can you imag been printed each month. With the All Time." ine yourself walking by, and not pay additional help it is now possible to Poster effectiveness does not dim ing any attention to, a bulletin board design and print 47 different posters with age. If the lesson is there and decorated with a miniature Christmas each month throughout the year. The it is presented in forceful style, the tree, fully lighted, together with ap greater variety will be welcome news message lives on. Reprints are still propriate greetings, a bright three to our members. being made of punchy posters that This means that during 1930 the were printed years ago. The com Council will edit and design 564 sepa bination of the new with the best of rate and distinct posters. The aggre the old, in the new' catalog, makes it gate quantities printed will run close to a most interesting as well as a most 850,000 copies. practical booklet for those who select the monthly posters for plant bulle tin boards. The schedule of large and small posters has been slightly readjusted, decreasing the totals of the large pos A feature of the catalog is the wide ter issues in favor of a considerable variety of miniatures shown. The increase in the number of smaller size. grouping is ably done in handy-refer ence fashion so that the selection can be made easily and quickly. In short, the catalog meets the requirements of every industrial, school, and public safety bulletin board program. The new plan will give greater op portunity for a needed specialization that will touch on pertinent problems of certain industries. A fair propor tion of additional issues will be de signed with this idea in mind. . The The selection of old posters for re change will also be welcomed by those production was based on several who prefer to use the small posters things, such as the quantity record, the as more of these will be available from need for covering as many different now on. *l>0 \ viin\-U. \,u in r \ /*irv POSTERS for MARCH Make your selection from these pages OX THIS and succeeding pages are shown small single color reproductions of forty-one privileged to order a certain number of posters during the year without extra charge. This yearly allotment desire and place their order, using our special form, which will be sent on request. posters prepared for distribution is based upon the number of em during the current month. All of [ ployees. It provides for 300 poster j these posters will be available to , units for each $25 of membership I Poster Catalogue In addition to 17 posters pub members during the ensuing 90 days dues. A 9 by 12 poster counts as * lished each month, we have selected in any desired quantity. one unit, and a large two-color 783 posters issued in past years and Under the terms of membership poster as four units. The following : which have proved so popular that each active industrial member is j table shows the complete schedule j they are carried in stock. Ask for of dues with allotments of poster I our 1930 Poster Catalogue. units: I A 1 SHOULD L, WORRY /THIS V truck belongs i TO TH' COMPANY//, Employees 1 to 50........ E1r2n.e5*0 ?l to m 50,00151 to 0f t to HO........ ___ 25,00 ...... . ___ 1.200,....... __ L "5.00 i.JOl to 2,000........ ..... 100.00 2,001 to 3,000,,..,,... 125.00 3,001 to 3,000........ ..... 150,00 3,000 to 10.000........ ..... 200.00 10,000 or more.......... ...... 250.00 News i I 23 465 8 10 Units 150 ,3N0(H0) ono 1,200 1.500 1,800 2,400 3,000 THIS RESULTS i IN TOO MANY ,, accidents! 2680-B 17x23 inches 4 units Extra posters will be supplied at cost, under either of these plans: Plan 1. The member authorizes us to bill him for $5 for which we establish a credit of 300 poster Units to be ordered as needed. ^ Plan 2. The member authorizes us to bill him for each separate ship ment of excess posters at the follow ing prices: , . Small Large First 100 ....................... .....,,$4.00 *$$.00 Additional quantities, each.. .01 v.04 We recommend that membersfffeview the miniature illustrations each month, select the posters they 2722-B 2723-C 17x23 inches 25x38 inches 4 units 8 units IN A ClQAILiT rff TASTt i IN WHAUPS IT* 2676-B 17x23 inches (Three colors) SAfCEY 4 units k 2678-B 17x23 inches 4 units Electrotypee may he purchased from the National Safety Council for $2 each WITHOUT FANGS Both Are Harmless 2681-B 17x23 inches 4 units 2679-B 17x23 inches 4 units BEING CAREFUL | A SECOND OF CARELESSNESS MAY DESTROY A LIFETIME OF CAREFULNESS 2683 9x12 inches (Three Colors) 1 unit DONT FORGET o CARETUL TO-DAY 2685 9x12 inches 1 unit 2684 j#"' -llfor A * LOST TIME ACCIDENT i IN THIS DEPARTMENT 9x12 inches (Three Colors) 1 unit 2690-D 12x18 inches 2 units 2686 9x12 inches 1 unit 1 2682-D 12x18 inches Electrotypet may be purchased from the National Safety Council for $2 each 2 units 92 XATIOXAL SAFETY XEll'S I t takes 65 muscles to make a frown and 10 to make a smile why frown ? 2689 9x12 inches 1 unit AN ANNUAL EXAMINATION WILL HELP YOU nr 2688 9x12 inches 1 unit 'fim smafffires MIGHTY PLANTS LAID fcWASTE , SaUSPiN;'HOV^TC*USE| '%RE..." ' 2695 9x12 inches 1 unit THROW OUT ALL, BROKEN BOTTLES rECT YOURSELF, AND OTHERS i 2691 1 unit 2694 9x12 inches 1 unit 2693 - ike. sjinf> should slip or H -the fall should part or the winch should reverse - NUP SED 9x12 inches 1 unit WHERE IT CANT BE OVERLOOKED 2692 9x12 inches 1 unit STAY OUT FROM UNDER 2709 9x12 inches 1 unit 2703 9x12 inches Electrotypes may\belpurcha*ed from the National Safety Council for $2 each 1 unit February, 19JO 93 MAKE j ACCIDENTS' ROLL EM DOWN AND BREAK'EM BEFORE THEY BREAK YOU 2717 9x12 inches 1 unit TWO WAYS 2701 9x12 inches 1 unit EUctrotypee may be purchaeed from the National Safety Council for fl each 94 KILLED CAT It can also injure Yourlyes xatiox.il safety xeiis DONT WATCH ELECTRIC WELDERS GOOD PILING would lywc/ jo/uiffliZec6 ~C%c<L 2706 9x12 inches 1 unit 2704 9x12 inches 1 unit 2705 9x12 inches 1 unit THINK OF THE. FELLOWS BELOW 2696 9x12 inches 1 unit 2699 9x12 inches 1 unit 2700 9x12 inches 1 unit KEEPYOlfi DISTANCE.* A.FUNNY.STORY OUT OF PLACE. OFTEN ENDS IN TRAGEDY 2720 9x12 inches 1 unit j 2710 9x12 inches 1 unit 2721 9x12 inches Electrotype* may be purchated from the National Safety Council for $2 each 1 unit t-Amiary. 1930 95 SMOTHER Safet*y Needs a Literal Interpretation By EARL J. REEDER Supervising Engineer, Sationat Safety Council THE. CRANK WONTCRUSH HIM 2712 9x12 inches 1 unit BAD GOOD 2711 9x12 inches 1 unit FOR SAFETY ALWAYS CUT AWAY FROM BODY 2718 9x12 inches 1 unit heifer Stand Clear! While Puffin# ] On Shackle 1 2714 9x12 inches 1 unit 2719 9x12 inches 1 unit ! 2713 9x12 inches 1 unit WK have an unfortunate habit of speaking' in superlative* iu this country. In temporary enthusi asm we describe a recent scene as "the most wonderful thing" we have ever observed. After an exasperat ing experience we say that ``if it ever happens again" we will take some drastic action--perhaps pun ish severely. However, when the enthusiasm or exasperation cools, the superlative statement is dropped and our action becomes quite ra tional. Recognizing this we frequently discount the spoken or written word as a superlative and put our own in terpretation upon what it means. Too frequently drivers of vehicles interpret "Stop" as "Slow Down" or exercise an assumed license in in terpretation and add a few words to make it read "Stop if you can't get through without it." Or "Dan ger--Keep out" is interpreted to mean "Danger--Use your own judgment about keeping out." Safety has no place for superla tives or for interpretations with res ervations. It must speak an exact language. The general public must learn that it does speak an exact language. The "Stop" sign and the "Keep Out" sign, as examples, belong only where safety requires a literal inter pretation of them. Regulations of any kind for the promotion of safety should be promulgated only where they are required for safety so that observers will know that they are not to be discounted. The safety movement should be kept in simple, direct terms, so far as that is possible, avoiding the re striction or regulation that is super fluous or questionable, and then see that it is understood to the extent that makes intelligent observance possible, ft is then, and only then, that the regulation or restriction-- whether upon the street or in the shop--can be effectivelv enforced. Literal interpretation is one of the biggest needs of the safety move ment. This is particularly true to day when violations of stop signs, signals, and regulations are so com mon in traffic upon the streets. First, see that the regulation or re striction is reasonable --- substan tiated by facts--and then see that enforcement is required. Electrotypes may he purchased from the National Safety Council for $2 each 06 NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS t af-TT-tof NewMembers Risk-free National SafetyCouncil cleaning T"AO not expose workers to the ^ danger of fire and explosion I f December 12, 1929--January 10, 1930 i Alabama United Ice Co., Mobile, Ala. Alberta Wood Preserving Co., Ltd., Cal gary, Alberta, Can. American Legion, Topeka, Kans. American Powder Co., Maynard, Mass. Barber-Colman Co., Rockford, III. Beaumont Chamber of Commerce, Beau mont, Tex. Benjamin, Howard B., Kokomo, Ind. Benz Kid Co., Lynn, Mass. Bluff City Delivery Co., Memphis, Tenn. Bonbons Candiac (Canada), Ltd., Quebec, Can. Briggs Manufacturing Co., Detroit, Mich. Cap. F. Bourland Ice Co., Fort Smith, Ark. Carter-Lockhard Co., Los Angeles, Calif. Chicago Rubber Clothing Co., Racine, Wis. City of Morgantown, Morgantown, W. Va. City of Norfolk, Norfolk, Va. Codo Manufacturing Co., Coraopolis, Pa. Columbian Steel Tank Co., Kansas City, Mo. Columbus Chamber of Commerce, Colum bus, Ohio. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, The, Bos ton, Mass. Consolidated Coppermines Corp., Kimberly, Nev. ever present with the use of kerosene, gasoline and other in flammable materials for cleaning work. Use non-explosive, non inflammable Oakite materials for every production, process, and maintenance cleaning task and you will eliminate a needless risk. Oakite cleaning is SAFE in every respect. It removes the grease and oil that invite fire. It will not injure workers' hands or dothing; is safe in storage and in use. Furthermore, it ef fects amazing economies in time and effort wherever there is cleaning to be done. Write lor full information. Or let our nearest Service Man call. No obligation in either case. Oakite Service Men, cleaning specialists, art located in leading industrial centers of U. S. and Canada Manufactured only by OAKITE PRODUCTS, INC. 14D Thame* Street, New York, N. Y. HEIST AH APPLICATOR Duncan Foundry & Machine Works, Inc., Alton, 111. Edison. Electric Appliance Co,, Inc., Chi cago, 111. El Dorado Refining Co., The, El Dorado, Kans. AF-T-TOP tUled with Mercu- S rochrome or Iodine feeds like a fountain pen, direct from a sanitary glass tip on the bottle. PPLY direct to the injured A part without fuss or smear. One hand is sufficient to open and use the bottle. Fischer Bed Spring Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. Fletcher, H. E., Co., W. Chelmsford, Mass. Formen's Club of New Haven, New Ha ven, Conn. Frano Intressenters Aktiebolag, Kramfors, Sweden. General Box Co., Detroit, Mich. Goodyear Cotton Mills, Inc, Goodyear, Conn. Harbor Department, Long Beach, Calif. Institute of Scrap Iron & Steel, Inc, New York City. Ironrite Ironer Co, Detroit, Mich. IRST Aid men everywhere are F recommending it for use, in and away from the plant. It is packed in a wooden case. (.'GNOMICAL--one bottle will E draw a line quarter of an inch wide and ten feet long. No evaporation or waste. Louisiana Ice & Coal Co, New Orleans, La. Louisiana Power & Light Co, Algiers, La. Mallory Coal Co, Huntington, W. Va. Mason City Safety Council, Mason City, la. McLaurin-Jones Co, Ware, Mass. Miller Co, The, Meriden, Conn. Milwaukee Vocational School, Milwaukee, Wis. Motor Products Corp, Detroit, Mich. Moulton Ladder Co, Philadelphia, Pa. Municipal Court-Traffic Divn, Minneapolis, Minn. RECOMMENDED Linemen are constantly in need of protection--especially foot pro tection. During these winter months, which make the lineman's job doubly hazardous, Marshall's Linemen's Shoes serve as an excel lent protection--not only against Nazareth Chamber of Commerce, Nazareth, high voltage, but against frozen or Write for a Sample Pa. wet feet. O'Neill, Charles, Maple Shade, N. J. Pal-Waukee Airport, Inc, Mt. Prospect, 111. Police Dept, Chicago, 111. We heartily recommend Mar shall's Linemen's Shoes. ROBERTA. Bernhard MFG. CHEMIST Pullman Free School of Manual Training, Chicago, 111. Rubber Service Laboratories Co, Nitro, W. Va. Write for complete details. Linemen Protector Co. 153 ANDERSON AVE. San Francisco Mines of Mexico, Ltd, Chihuahua, Mexico. 2009 Penobscot Bldg. Rochester N.Y. ISouthern United Ice Co, Jackson, Miss. State School of Science Library, Wahpeton, N. D. Detroit, Mich. When writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS February, 1930 97 THE SPIRIT OF FRIENDLY RIVALRY Employees in your plant, instilled with the spirit o friendly rivalry, are bound to work more safely and efficiently if a safety contest plan is introduced. Individual Safety Awards, or an award for the winning unit, depart ment, or team are an incentive for safer practices. Your employees are. human--and it's human nature to want to be a winner. /In inquiry will bring you complete details, CHAS. A. WINSHIP & CO. 159 No. State Street, Chicago, 111. Scarehead Advertising-- Not to pleasant--yet how bring to the attention of the manufacturer using power presses the fact that he can avoid ghastly and demoralizing accidents easily and at little cost! A D & M Automatic Press Guard ac tually makes power press accidents prac tically impossible! There's ooe for every make* size and stroke of press--simple, easily attached and inexpensive* Try one for 34 days at our expense. State manu facturer's name, and size and stroke of press and whether left to right or right to left hand awing is desired. DAM Automatic Frees Guards can he ordered through your machinery supply house-or direct. Taylor-Shantz Company 4*9 St. Paul St. Rochester, N. T. Texas Ice & Refrigerating Co., Fort Worth, Tex. ^ Texas Sugar Refining Co., Texas City, Tex. SPECIFY Weidit Acetylene Co., Detroit, Mich. White, S. S., Dental Manufacturing Co.. "Hie, Prince Bay, X, Y. Whitney Materials Co., Duluth, Minn. Wiicox-Rich Corp., Detroit, Mich. Wilcox-Rich Corp., Saginaw, Mich. Wilcox-Rich Corp., Marshall, Mich. Wilcox-Rich Corp., Battle Creek, Mich. Wolff Industrial Service, Inc., blew York i City. 1 Bus Drivers Subscribe to QUALITY FIRST SAFETY FIRST Safety Creed | IN the newly accelerated safety cam- ( paign on the Greyhound Lines of j the Motor Transit Management Com- ! pany, Chicago, each bus driver is now I APRONS ARM PROTECTORS BLANKETS asked to subscribe to a definite creed of safe and courteous action. The COATS wider safety activity of the company has been undertaken under the direc tion of Marcus A. Dow, past president GLOVES HAND PADS of the National Safety Council and formerly director of safety for the HELMETS New York Central Railroad, who has been employed to maintain for the Greyhound Lines the highest possible standard of safe operation. In addition to the individual instruc JUMPERS KNEE PADS LEGGINGS tion in safe driving methods and supervision until the driver is declared thoroughly competent, each man sub LEG-SAFES MITTENS scribes personally to "The Creed of the Greyhound Driver," covering 13 OVER-SHOES points, as follows: 1. I realize the responsibility placed with me for the comfort, safety and satisfaction of my passengers. PANTS SLEEVES 2. I will see that my passengers are seated comfortably and show by my conduct and every action that I appreciate their pat ronage. I will strive to see that they start on their journey in a cheerful mood. SPATS MADE OF ASBESTOS--LEATHER OR FIREPROOFED MATERIAL 3. I _ will check all baggage and put it where it belongs. 4. I will punch all tickets and thank each passenger. 5. Before starting on a trip I will see that every passenger is ready to go. "MORE SAFETY PER DOLLAR" 6. My persona! appearance will be in keeping with the requirements of the com pany. j 7. I will be on the alert with eye and I ear for any danger which'may lurk around the curve or from a cross-road. I will be especially careful when passing other cars. 8. I will like each of my passengers, for I know they in turn will then like me. I I know that courtesy and politeness are a constant part of my day's work. 9. I will make this my most perfect trip. I will constantly be on the alert I know that haste makes waste and that I cannot be too careful in the operation of my bus. 10. I will keep my bus constantly under control. If late, I will not speed in order to make up time. WHEELER LEG-SAFES Wheeler Ley-Safes {Patent Applied for) combine Safety* Comfort and. Service in a NSW and DIFFERENT way. Fully adjustable improved Safety fasteners, permit a snqar fit on side* top and bottom* vet allow INSTANT RELEASE from any place aloor stay. See cut. Bequest for a (rial pair Involves NO obligation. Send for YOURS today. IVti9 and different. 11. When I arrive at my destination I will thank each passenger for making the trip. F. H. WHEELER MFG. CO. 12. It is my ambition to be considered 224-230 West Huron Street the company's safest, most efficient most cheerful salesman of its service. and | CHICAGO - - ILLINOIS When writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS XATlOXAL SAFETY XEll'S PRoTEX--VAPRoTEX SAFEWAY A Good Appearance Helps in Many Ways I HAVE observed that when my automobile is nicely groomed, I drive it more carefully. 1 am less in clined to take the humps at high sjx'ed, and 1 shift the gears accurately to avoid unnecessary grinding. I suspect that 1 am also a little more thoughtful of the rights of other motorists, ac quiring in a. subtle way. a better sense of responsibility, because my car is shining, A hath, a shave, a haircut, dean overalls, a pressed suit---any of these perform the same magic. They add a fraction of an inch to one's stature. SAFEWAY Owners of draft horses discovered THREE safety items which you should not overlook. How many men in your shops have been burned or more dangerously injured thru electricity when using extension lamps? Why not eliminate this hazard on your properties bv installing these "SAFETY FIRST" units. that well groomed animals received less abuse because their sleek, spirited appearance commanded more admira tion. By identical psychology, a dean plant, a dean machine, dean tools, and clean working clothes, humble though they be, are respected by workers and any who may come in contact with them. PROTEX rubber handles not only protect the work man but they also act as a shock-absorber for the fila ment of the lamp bulb. A worker is known by the place he keeps. It may require a few minutes to make things lock neat, but plat forms loaded with iunk and milk bot tles, dirty rags scattered all over a press or machine, scrap paper ankle | T TAPROTEX vapor-proof high, sandwiches and fruit skins in V lamps will also serve your the stairways, add no prestige to a purpose economically and plant, much less to the individual re safely. This unit also has a sponsible for the mess. rubber handle to protect the Appearances do count! Let's make workman against electric cur a good appearance!--Cuneo Topics. rent. It can be dropped and thrown around without creat ing the hazards caused by An Omission I arcs or lamp breakage, AND it is vapor-proof, dust-proof, and water-proof. IN the list of awards of the Presi dent's Medal for 1929, which was published in the January National SAFEWAY rubber covered plugs are safe and un breakable. A plug half-apart Safety News, the name of John Rothfuss, a 17-year old Boy Scout of Sylvania, Ohio, was inadvertently presents a real hazard. SAFE omitted. On May 29, 1929, John WAY plugs will reduce your rescued a girl from drowning and maintenance costs and elimi restored her to consciousness by the nate all hazards. prone pressure method of resuscita Send the coupon for details tion. His knowledge of resuscitation was gained at a Boy Scout camp. Daniel Woodhead Company 15 North Jefferson St. Chicago, Illinois DANIEL WOODHEAD CO., 15 North Jefferson St., Chicago, 111. Please send ua complete details "SAFETY FIRST" units. of Name ....................... ...... . Position ................. >uur ....... <'<mpany Address Robert M. Bruce, Rochester Tele phone Corporation, has been elected chairman of the Rochester, N. Y,, Safety Council for the current year. ; jOther officers elected are: First vice chairman, Fred G. Cheetham, Trav elers Insurance Company: Second I vice-chairman, W. G. Deaner, Roches iter Packing Company; Third vice chairman, R. C. Hands, Eastman Kodak Company. Flohr Automatic Saw and Jointer Guards for Woodworking Machinery 'T'HE STEEL BACKBONE on the Flohr Saw Guard is unques tionably one of the greatest features of construction ever put in a saw guard and affords unusual protec tion against the most serious acci dents in saw operation. The terrific force of the saw in case of a break age or of a tooth coming out, will tear through any ordinary aluminum hood. This Steel Bar is placed right over the saw so that it is impossible for the saw to injure any operator. Due to the sturdy and rigid con struction, it is the easiest working guard on the market and adjusts it self to the thickness of the lumber. It operates on either tilting or non tilting saw tables or tilting saw arbor. It is equipped with a splitter and non-kick-back fingers. Vibra tion is practically eliminated and in all it is the safest ever constructed. The SUPERIOR SAW GUARDS are made in sizes to fit saws from 6" to 36" in diameter. Manufactured by Helios Mfg. Corp. P. O. Boa 487 Buffalo, New York ll'/uut wrifitht tuiirrtfxers, f'lciuc tiifiiiimi XATfOXAl* SAFETY XEIVS Prbntary, 1930 01) With the Manufacturer Manufacturers are invited to send in announcements of new products, or improved special features. Only items which can be considered as "news" to our readers will be published ; APOLOGY I Through an oversight in compil- ; ing the 1930 edition of the "Buyer's Guide of Safety Equipment" the Safety First Supply Company, Brady Building, Pittsburgh, was not i listed. j We regret this error exceedingly, ; as this company has been a cousistent advertiser in NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS, using the inside back cover for a number of years. We suggest that you clip this notice and paste it in your copy of "Buv- | er's Guide of Safety Equipment." Besides being General Dealers in all ! types of accident prevention equip ' ment, this Company should be espe cially mentioned under the following headings: Aprons--all types Arm Protectors Belts--Linemen & Safety Bulletin Boards Car Blockers Carboy Inclina- tors Clothing for In i dustrial Work ers Explosive Con ! tainers 1 Finger Protec| tors First Aid Equipi ment Foot Guards for Shoes ; Gloves | Goggles--all types ! Grinding Wheel --Eve Protec tion not Gog . gles Guards -- Ma chinery Hand Leathers Hand Shields-- i Eye Protec tion) Helmets Hoods--Acid Hospital Equip ment Ladders Ladder Feet Leggings Masks _ i Mats--Standing 1 Respirators Resusciation Equipment Shoes & Boots --Factory and Foundry Waste Cans-- j Safety j SAFETY TREAD Wooster Products, Inc., Wooster, Ohio, have developed a new safety tread made polished aluminum alloy, with a handle of the same material. The sander drum, which is six inches w ide and seven inches in diameter, is held securely in the frame, hut is instantly removed if desired. of rolled steel and extruded brass base, designed with corrugated surface of open I'-shaped and dove-tail grooves which are filled with abrasive grits to form the anti-slip feature. The grooved design not only permits the foot to come in contact with only the anti-slip surface, but helps to keep it clean and free from dirt that might cause the foot to slip. ** * MUVAFAST SAFETY LIFTING EQUIPMENT For carrying heavy objects such as gas ranges or other household appliances, the Muvafast Company, Inc., 46 Paris Street, Newark, N. J., have introduced the Muvafast Safety Lifting and Carrying Equipment. The vacuum system is a feature of the new whirlwind sander. This new system permits the sander to be kept dean without using a high-speed noisy vacu um fan. By means of fan blades on both ends of the sanding drum, a strong blast of air is directed into the bag which sucks all dust in with it. News Items * ** * AUTOSTART GRINDERS AND BUFFERS .Autostart grinders and buffers, manu factured by the U. S. Electrical Manu facturing Co., Los Angeles, include the new chip shield, which is said to lessen the danger of injury while operating ma chines of this type. The grinder embod ies asbestos protected windings, anti friction ball-bearings, cast aluminum rotor, and a motor that is an entirely enclosed power unit. Another feature of the AutoStart grind ers and buffers is their ability to start instantly. The buffer is constructed simi larly to the grinder, but is designed for buffing and polishing. The guards are permanently mounted and cover the wheels, yet allow plenty of clearance. Hooks of the Muvafast device are drop forged and shielded to protect enamel, dueo and furniture finishes. The hook suspension is designed to fit base hands of all ranges. In describing this harness arrangement, the manufacturer states Muvafast may lie slipped on like a vest. *** REID-WAY WHIRLWIND SANDER A new sander has been produced by the Reid-Way Company, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The machine is made of ground. The Chippewa Shoe Manufacturing Company, Chippewa Falls, Wis., has is sued a new catalog, "Reducing Foot Haz ards in Industry," showing its complete line of "Gardtoe" safety shoes. Copies of the catalog will be mailed on request. *** Builard-Davis. Inc., manufacturers ami distributors of safety equipment for mines and industry, announces that Mr, A. C. Field has been transferred from the San Francisco office to Salt Lake City to assist Mr. J. L. Coombs. Along with the transfer of Mr. Field, Builard-Davis will increase the size of its stock carried in Salt Lake City. *** 'Statements published an this page are based^fl en the claims ef the manufacturer. While the blational Safety News cannot guarantee these statements, they are believed to be accurate. 100 NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS Warns Against Illegal j Fireworks Displays ECONOMY Kester for safe and economi cal soldering. On numerous jobs, it saves the time and labor ordinarily spent in searching for, handling and applying a dangerous acid flux. In every phase of in dustrial soldering, use Kester, the modern safety solder with the flux right in the core. Our research and experimen tal department will gladly analyze your needs and sup ply a special, safe and profit able solder from our enor mous stock of 48,000 cored wire items. This service im poses no obligations; investi gate it promptly. KESTER SOLDER CO. 4206 Wrightwood Arc. CHICAGO, ILL. Established 1899 Formerly Chicago Solder Co. aETTaTr x-cortt SOLDER acidcori a o i in > co at SASfl'COftf MITAl MINDII RADIO SOkDIR FRANK Adjustable Comfort LEGGINGS Used in nearly 1000 foundries and steel mills. The choice of Super intendents and workmen alike be cause their superior design and high quality guarantee unusual pro tection under most hazardous con ditions. Writ* (or information and price#. The Safety Clothing Co. Manufacturers .3804 Payne Ave. Cleveland, Ohio THE deaths of four children in a St. Louis fire last year, which originated when a broken electric wire touched off a fire-works display in a five-and-ten cent store, is being cited by .Miss Frances Perkins. Industrial Commissioner of New York, in an effort to rouse tradesmen to the need for proper precautions and a careful law observance in advance of the com ing July Fourth preparations. "Investigation proved that this fatal A SAFETY SHOE conflagration was due to human care lessness and was therefore prevent FOR the FOUNDRY able," declares the commissioner. "All cities nowadays have ordinances gov erning the display and sale of fire works, but such ordinances are more The Reece Wooden Sole Shoe shown above is designed for use in the foundry and for the moulder. It is made of quality oil grain leather with strong rubber goring in and more openly disregarded. The Fourth seemed actually to become somewhat saner for a time, but now there is a threatened return to the old the sides. It may be fitted with an aluminum snug fitting toe cap or our new heavy aluminum toe guard. The thick WOOD SOLES are nonconductive of heat. spirit of carelessness and risk. "In the St. Louis tragedy, the illegal Send for details of our complete line. display of fireworks was not the only condition which did not fully regard Reece Wooden. Sole the safety of the public and the em ployees. The store building in which Shoe Co., Inc. the fire occurred, though constructed Columbus, Nebraska of brick and consisting of one story and basement, was not designed for safety in emergencies. This provides another proof that the proposed Mer cantile Code, of New York State, de signed to overcome existing fire haz ards, cannot be too speedily adopted. "Though this store's exits were plentiful, they were not of a kind to be readily available in case of, accident. Two front doors, opening to the street, were hung to swing inward; a side door, opening on a courtyard, was also inswinging; and a steel door, opening into a narrow passageway, was kept locked. The outside windows, except one on the street, were six or seven feet above floor level and were covered with iron bars. The stairway to the basement was apparently regarded by some as the best means of escape, since several persons were taken out of the basement through a coal hole, and one of the dead children was found at the stair foot. "The terrible and unnecessary sacri fice of these children's lives is an ob ject lesson which should rouse all tradesmen to a sense of personal re sponsibility." Love, like ignorance of the law, is no excuse for violating traffic 'ordi nances, a Newark, N. J., judge told a one-arm driver upon fining him $5 for his offense. Provide BetterWater! Give your employees good, clean drinking water. Let them drink from RundleSpence fountains--then their thirst will be satisfied sani tarily. It's bound to be be cause lips cannot touch the R-S Nozzle. Let us give you complete in formation covering R-S Sani tary Drinking Fountains, be sides our line of hath and Plumbing Fixtures and Sup plies. " Rundle-Spence Mfg. Co. 65 Fourth St., Milwaukee, Wis. When writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS February, 1930 Index to Advertisers ; i 101 FOOT PROTECTION FOR MOULDERS Schitt's Safety Shoe for moulders has all the features of the complete Schiff line. Designed especially for use in the foundry, the moulder's shoe may be removed in stantly. The Non-Metallic "Protex" Toe, used exclusively in Schiff shoes, protects the en tire toe area from falling ob jects and hot metal. HVit tor Mamplmt' Shipment mmdm within 24 hourt. LEON SCHIFF & COMPANY 108 West Lake St., Chicago, III. jjjjjSjWSSS t'DHt'uhi'Mnni Abbott Laboratories Acme Steel Co............... American Abrasive Metals Co____ _.... Amcricxn-LaFrance 4k Foamite Corp ....... American Mason Safety Tread Co American Metal Products Co,____ American Optical Co ,,--.... American Telephone St Telegraph Co C. G. Armstrong Mfg. Co Angle Steel Stool Co Bernhard, Robert A ,, ... ___ Bullard.Davis, Inc. 3S-52-S9-68-65-87 Burroughs-Wellcome & Co. (U. S,A.), Inc 8( 71 , , 11 37 t .8i 34 f 104 i 43 ! 191 84 lI H I ; 47 | CarterLockard Co............ -....... , ................ 91 Central Iron St Steel Co...... ......... ... . .60 Challenge Machinery Co --........ ........................... it Chicago Eye Shield Co......_______ ____ ______ 57-82 Chippewa Shoe Mfg. Co...... .................... 71 Cleveland Leather Goods Co ... ___ , ..... 80 Collins, Thos. E. & Co................. ......... 81 Dayton Safety Ladder Co 71 Dlener Co., Geo. W,..--..................... ,, . 74 DesMolnet Foundry St Machine Co..-..... ..... 83 DuPaul-Central Optical Co.--... .................................. 73 Durable Mat Co...----.................. ........ 82 EUwood Safety Appliance Co .......... EncBcott-Johnson Corp. Erdle Perforating Co--.___ -.................. ...... ........ Eyesight Survey Corp --- ...... . 72 77 83 89 Finnell Systems, Inc.--,......... ........-.............. -...... 71 Fyr-Fyter Company --.............. IS Harrington St, King Perforating Co ......... 59 Helios Manufacturing Corp...... ........ --..... 98 Highway Service, Inc.,.--...___ ... , 81 Holcomb Safety Garment Co...... .................... SS Hygela Respirator Co__________ _____________ __ , ..88 Hynsoo, Westcott St Dunning .... 7$ Industrial Products Company,..-......... . ....--____88 International Shoe Co.-,.....----._______ ___ ___ 53 Invincible Vacuum Cleaner Mfg. Co..... ..................63 Johnson St Johnson._______ --____ --_____ , -- 54 Justrite Mfg. Co.----,, ------ ------ .............-- 82 Kester Solder Co.___--________________ 119 Keystone Lubricating Co.,,..--.......-- ................--S Kidde St Co,, Walter-,--,_____ __,,,,____ ,,______-__ 48 Klein St Sms, Mathias--,,_,_______ ,. --........- 58 Are You Next! Not if you use fuse pullers instead of taking chances of pulling fuses with bare hands. It's so easy to avoid shocks, burns, infection, blindness, or possible death, by using Fuse Pullers Genuine shock-proof horn fibre--4 sizes Ask your jobber or write TRICO FUSE MFG. CO. 1995 McKinley Ave. Milwaukee, Wi*. The O'Kelly Lima Cord Sole and Heel Co --,,....... ................... - if Lineman Protector Co.----____ --.............. ...........-- 98 MacLaury, J. D-- _____--,____ ____ ____ 88 Mine Safety Appliance Co.............. -.............. -33-41 Mhterallac Electric Co,----______-- 89 Multiple Selling Corp-,--- -......... --...____ ... 4 Murray Safety Sling Co..----..... -................... -- 82 McDonald Engineering Corp,--......... --78 . Safety ^ Hook Never Slip Safety Clamp Co .-- . 88 Oakite Products, Inc.---- --- ___ -- ___ M O'Kelly, Gregory ........................... ...... ................191 Pangborn Corp. -........ . -- ----. . ............. $4 Patent Scaffolding Co.__--------------------- --------- 61 Protectoseal Co. ,--.64-81 Pulmomn Safety Equip. Co.--,,...,-.__,,___________ -- 3 Pyrene Manufacturing Co,,--__--____ _______ 81 Pstsntsd Locks Automatically Forms a Link When Closed Cannot Straighten Out Quick to Operate Thousands In Use Recommended by Leading Casualty Companies THE LOAD CANT SUP Capacities and General Dimensions 2 sotcity Tolni ff 1&hft 2103e0 2I11S385% Width ISnt.t 54% k Hook Link Opening Opening i* ft 23% 4 Weight Pou2nd* 83 18 25 55 GREGORY O'KELLY 3S S. Dsarborn St., Chicago, IIL Reece Wooden Sole Shoe Co.___ -....... Rundle-Spence Mfg. Co.~.,--............. --109 ----199 Safety Appliance St Machine Co ---- SS Safety Clothing Co -------- --,--,.,81-199 Safety Equipment Service Coi--Back Cover Safety First Supply Co__ _Inside Back Cover Safety Fumigant St Chemical Co..,----83 Schiff St Co., Leco....--___--.,191 Sharp St Smith.,--__--..... 77 Standard Safety Equip. Co--Inside Front Cover-69 Stanley Works, The--...,-,------ ,,--------- ---- -------- 7S Stooehouse Signs, Inc-..,---- ----...... ... . 75 Sulpbo-Napthol Co. _______.____ ___ ______ 73 Taylor Chain Co., S. G.----- ...----- ------ --____________ IS Taylor, Halsey W., Co--............................ -- S4 Taylor-Schantx Co.__ ...___ _______ ,,_______ 97 Thompson Electric Co--...... ................ ......... 58 Trios Fuse Mfg. Co,..--------------- -- . --181 Union Carbide Sales ......... -- --. 51 Wall Mfg. Supply Co., P.................................,........ 58 West Disinfecting ....,,................. ........ ............ ...... 45 Wheeler Mfg. Co,, F. H .......... --...... ...37-97 Wiesman Mfg. Co ... ............................ ............. 87 Williams Jewelry St Mfg. Co 87 Williamsport Wire Rope Co,......----.................... -- 2 Willson Products, Inc ...... ................... .... 1 Winship, Chas. A. 4k Co________....____ ____ ____ 97 Woodhead, Daniel, Co__ --___ __ ______ ________ 98 Wright-Austin Co. w............. 79 AN INJURY IS MONEY LOST IT isn't just a matter oi getting some one to take your injured press oper ator's place . . . it's a loss in time, pro duction and dollars. With Armstrong's Safe`Lock Guard for foot presses, the ram's downward movement is stopped if an operator's hand or lingers are in its path. Safe-Lock is not a hindrance to work . . . it is an aid. Operators are not worrying about accidents when this protective guard is used. It is easily attached by any qualified mechanic. An inquiry is the first step toward pro tection. Manufactured and Sold by C. G. Armstrong Mfg. Co. Meriden Conn* When writing advertisers, please mention PIATIOb!A L SAFETY NEWS 102 NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS m Buyers' Service AC Accident Prevention Service Nationel Safety Council. Cable Locks. Surty 3/c.Co, Abrasives Pangborn Corporation, Air Conditioning Equipment Pangborn Corporation. Anemometers Ulna 8afety Appliance! Co. Aprons American Ailsafe Co. Holcomb Safety Garment Co. Industrial Product! Co. Ulna Safety Appliances Co. Puimosan Safety Equipment Co, Safety Clothing Co. Safety Equipment Serrice Co, Safety First Supply Co. Wheeler M/g. Co.. T. H. Arm Protectors Bullard-Daris, Inc. Holcomb Safety Garment Co. Mine Safety Appliances Co. Safety Clothing Co. Safety First Supply Co. Wheeler Mfc. Co., F. H, B Badges and Buttons Klne Safety Appliance* CoWUUams Jewelry St Ufa. Co. Wlnshlp Co.. Chas, A. Barrels* Shop Dtener Co.. Gao. W. I'es Mulnes Foundry & Machine Co. Barrel Drain Stand lies Moines Foundry & Machlue Co. Belt Shifters and Handlers Surty life. Co. Belts--Linemen's Bullard-Daris. Inc. Industrial Products Co. Mina Safety Appliances Co. Klein. Mathias St Son. Safety First Supply Co. Bfelts--Safety American Allsafe Co, Bullard-Daris, Iaa Industrial Products Co, MLno Safety Appliance* Co. Safety First Supply Co. Car Blockers Industrial Products Co Safety First Supply Co. Car Movers Industrial Products Co. Safety Wrench St Appliance Co. Car Step Treads--.Safety American Abrasive Metals Co. American Mason Safety Tread Oo. Carbon Monoxide Detectors Mine Safety Appliances Co, Chain--Factory Taylor Chain Co.. S. G. Chairs--Industrial Angle Steel Stool Co. Royal Metal Ufg. Co. Chairs--Safety Boatiwain Murray Safety Sling Co.. Inc, Chip and Spark Guards Chicago Eye Shield Co. Industrial Products Co. Surly Mfg. Co. Clamps and Sockets Never Slip Safety Clamp Co. Cleaners, Industrial Vacuum Invincible Vacuum Cleaner Mfg. Co. Cleaning Compounds Oakite Products, Inc. Clothing for Industrial Work ers--See Aprons, Caps, Gloves, Hand Leathers, Leggings, Overalls, Shoes Clothing, Weatherproof Industrial Products Co. Mine Safety Appliances Co. D Disinfectants and Deodorants Abbott Laboratories. Sulpbo-Napthol Co. West Disinfecting Co. Drinking Fountains Halsey W. Taylor Co. Rundla-Spanco Mfg: Co. Blankets--Fireproof Bullard-Darts, Inc. Holcomb Safety Garment Co, Industrial Products Co. Mine Safety Anpllancea Co. Safety Clothing Co. Safety Equipment Serrice Co. Safety First Supply Co. Wheeler Mfg. Co.. F. H. Blow Torches WaUMfr. Supply Co.. P. Blowers--Exhausters Pangborn Corp. Boiler Gauge Guard Wrtght-Austln Company. Box Strapping--Metal Stanley Works. The. Buckets* Hoisting Bullard-Daris, Inc. industrial Products Co. Bulletin Boards American Ailsafe Co. Bullard-Daris. Inc. Mine Safety Appliances Co. Industrial Products Co, Safety Equipment Serrice Co, Safety First Supply Co. Bulletin Service Cleanliness institute. Dust Collecting Systems Ptngbora Corp. E Elevator--Safety Devices Surty Mfg. Co. Emblems Mine Safety Appliances Co. Williams Jewelry Mfg. Co Wlnshlp Co., Chas- A, Exhaust Equipment Pansborn Corp. Eye Shades--Non-Breakable Chicago JSye Shield Oo. BuUard-Davls. Inc. Mine Safety Appliance# Co. Eyesight Surveys Eyesight Surrey Corp. Klndy Optical Co. Expanded Metal t&dle Perforating Co. Harrington St King Perforating Co. Explosive Containers Dlener Co., Geo. W, Industrial Products Co. Justrlte Mfg. Co. Protectoieat Co, Mine Safety Appliances Co. F Films or Slides For Rent and Sale National Safety Council. Finger Protectors Bullard-Daris. Inc. Chicago Bye Shield Co. Mine Safety Appliancee Co. Fire Alanizs Bullard-Dam, loe. lakeside Mfg. Co. Mine Safety Appliances Co. Fire Extinguishers American LaFnnce 4c reunite Corp. Dlener Co., Geo. W. Pyr-Fyter Company. Walter Etldde St Ce., Inc. Mine Safety Appliances Co, Pyrene Mfg. Co. Fireproofed Clothing Bullard-Daris, Inc. Holcomb Safety Garment Co. Mine Safety AppUanoee Co. Safetr Clothing Co. Safely First Supply Co. Wheeler Mfg Co.. 7. H. First Aid Equipment Abbott laboratories. Rob't A. Bernhard. Bullird Darls, lac. Burrough Wellcome St Co., (U.3.A.), Inc. Hrnion Westcott and Dunning. Industrial Products Co, Johnson St Johnson Mine Safety Appliances Co. Sharp St Smith. Safety First Supply Co. Mineralise Laboratories. FUgs^-Danger Industta! Products Oo. Flammable Vapor Indicators Bullard-Daris, Inc, Mine Safety Appliances Co. Flooring Material*--Safety Acme Steel Go. American Abrasive Metals Ce, American Mason Safety Tread Co. Cootra! Ires St Steel Ce. Durable Mat Co., Inc. Surly Mfg. Ce., Inc. Flywheel Guards Erdle Perforating Co. Harrington St Sing Perforating Co, iuriy Mfg. Co. Foot Guards Bullard-Davli, Inc. Sllweod Safety Appliances Co. Mine Safety Appliances Co, Standard Safety Equipment Co. Foot Press Guards Surly Mfg. Co. Fumigants Safety Fumigant 4 Chemical Co. Fuse Pullers industrial Products Ce. Min# Safety Appliance* Co. safety Equipment Serrice Co. Tries Fuse Mfg. Co. Q Gas Detsctors--Mine Bullard-Daris, loe. Mine Safety Appliances Co. Colon Carbide Co. Gauge Glasses Wright Austin Co. Gauge Glasses--Guards Wright Austin Co. Germicides Abbott laboratories. Germicide-Cutting Oil Abbott Laboratories. Sulphol-Naptbol Co. West Disinfecting Ce. Glass, Noo-Shatterable Chicago Eg# Shield Co. Surty Mfg. Co., Inc. Glass--Safety Safety First Supply Co. Glass* Wire Gloves and Mittens American Ailsafe Co. Bullard-Daris, Inc. Chlcaro Eye Shield Co. Holcomb Safety Garment Co. Industrial Products Co. Mina Safety Appliances Co. Safety Equipment Service Co. Safety Clothing Co, Safety First Supply Co. Whealer Mfg. Co., F. H. Goggles American AUsafe Co. American Optical Co. Bullard-Daris, Inc, Carter-Leckard Co. Chicago Eye Shield Co. Duff-Hall Goggle Serrice Du Paul-Central Optical Co. Industrial Products Co. Mine Safety Appliances Co. Safety Equipment Service Ce. Safety First Supply Co. Standard Safety Equipment Co. Willson Products. Inc. Googs* Sirens, Horns and other signaling devices Bullard-Daris, Inc. Mine Safety Appliances Co. Guards--Safety Efdle Perforating Co. Harrington St King Perforating Co. Industrial Products Ce. 8urty Mfg. Co. H Hand Cream Mine Safety Appliancee Co. Hand Loathera American Allsafe Co, Holoocab Safety Garment Co. Mina Safety Appliances Co. Safety Clothing Co. Safety Tint Supply Co. Wheeler Mfg. Co., F. EL Hats---Safety Bullard-Daris, Inc. Mina Safety Appliances Co. Helmets American Allsafe Co. American Optical Co, Bullard-Daris, Inc. Chicago Eye Shield Co. Holcomb Safety Garment Co. Induitrlal Products Co. Mine Safety Appliances Co.Puimosan Safety Equipment Co. Safety Clothing Co. Safety First Supply Co. Standard Safety Equipment Co. Wheeler Mfg. Co., F. H. Hooka--Chain Sling Taylor Chain Co., S. G. Hooks* Linemen's Belt Bullard-Daris, Inc. Hooks--Safety Hoisting Never Slip Safety Clamp Co. 0`Kelly Co., Gregory When writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS Hospital Equipment Bullard-Darts. Inc. Burroagh - Wellcome 4 UJ.S.A.). Inc. Mice Safety Appliances Co. Safety First Supply Co. Co Inhalators Bullard-Daris. Inc. McDonald EngineerlngEqulpoaent . Co. Mine Safety Appliances Co. J Jointer Guards Surty Mfg. Co. L Ladders and Accessories-- Safety Bullard-Darts, Inc. Dayton Safety Ladder Co. Patent Scaffolding Co. Safety First Supply Co. Lamp Guards American AUsafe Co. Daniel Woodheed Co. Lamp Hangers Thompson Electric Co. Lamp Locks Mine Safety Appliances Co. Multiple Selling Com Lamps--Safety Bullard-Daris, Inc. Mine Safety Appliances Co. Lanterns--Electric BuUard-Darls, Inc. Industrial Produots Co. Mine Safety Appliance* Oo. Lanterns -- Mine Electric Safety BuUard-Darls, Ino. Mine Safety Appliances Co. Safety First Supply Co. American Allsafe Co. Holcomb Safety Garment Co. Industrial Products Co. Mina Safety Appliances Co. Safety Clothing Co. Safety Equipment Service Co, Safety First Supply Co. Standard Safety Equipment Co. Wheeler Mfg. Co.. F. H. Linemen's Protectors Bullard-Darts. Inc. Industrial Products Co. Linemen Protector Co. Mine Safety AppUances Co. Safety First Supply Co. Linemen's Tool Bags BuUard-Darls. tnc. Industrial Products Co. Lockers and Hangers Clothing American AUsafe Co. Safety First Supply Co. for Lubricators--Safet y Keystone Lubricating Co. Lubricants Keystone Lubricating Ce. I't'hntary, 1930 Mail Distributor--Bag `lev<*laml T>ath* Good* Co. Masks Bullard-Daris, Inc. Chicago Eye Shield Co. Industrial Productt Co. Mine Safety Appliances Oo. Pulmosan Safety Equipment Co. Safety Equipment Berries Co, Safety First Supply Co. Standard Safety Equipment Co. Mats--Standing, Safety Acme Steel Co. Durable Mat Co. Printing Frets--Guards Surty Mfg. Co. Prize Awards Mine Safety Appliances Co. Williams Jewelry A Mfg. Co. Winhlp Co., Cha$. A. Projectors--Film Society of Visual Education Pyrotannlc Detector Mine Safety Appliances Co, R O Oil Cans Bullard-Daria, Inc. DlenerCo., Geo. W. Justrlte Mfg. Co. Mine Safety Appliances Co. Frotectoieal Co. Oxygen Breathing Apparatus Bullard-Daris, Inc, Mine Safety Appliances Co. P Pads--Knee Safety First Supply Co. Planers--Guards Surty Mfg. Co. Power Press Guards Armstrong Mfc. Co., C. C. Chicago Bye Shield Co. Safety Appliances A Machine Co. Surty Mfg. Co. Rail Clamps Industrial Products Co. Safety First Supply Co. Railroad Safety Devices Industrial Products Co. Respirators American Optical Co. Bullard-Daris, Inc. Chicago Eye Shield Co. Industrial Products Co. Hygels Respirator Co. Mine Safety Appliances Co. Pulmosan Safety Equipment Co. Safety First Supply Co. WUlsoo Products.Inc. Resuscitation Equipment Bullard-Daris,Inc. McDonald Engineering Equip* ment Co. Mine Safety Appliances Co. Safety First Supply Co. Rock Dusters Mine Safety Appliances Co. Taylor-Shants Co. Wleeman Mfg. Co. Rope--Wire Williamsport Wire Rope C*. UVA Sand Blast Equipment Pansborn Com. Sanders, Highway Highway Serrtce, loc. Saw, Safety Mine Safety Appliances Co, Saw Guards Hellos Minufacturing Corn. Safety Equipment Service Co. Surty Mfg. Co. Scaffolding Patent Scaffolding Co. Scrubbing Machines -- Elec tric FSnnell Systems, Inc. Separators, Screen Pwgbora Corn. Shaper Guards Surty Ufr. Co. Shoe Sole*--Non-Slip Dims Cord Solf A Seal Co. Shoe*--Factory and Foundry Bullard-Daris, Inc. Chippewa Shoe Mfg. Co. Endtcott-Johnsoa Corp. International Shoe Co. MaeLaury, J. D. Mine Safety Appliances Co. Reece Wooden Sole Shoe Co. Safety Clothing Co. Safety Equipment Service Co. Safety First Supply Co. Kcblff A Co.. Lece. .`Signs Collins * Co.. Thor B. Industrial Products Co. Mine Safety Appliance, Co. Safety Pint Supply Co. Mnneheuie aigm, inc. Slides--L a n t < r n--Also see Films or Slide* Slings--Chain Taylor Chain Co., S, a. Slings--Safety Wire Rope Murray Safety Sling Co. Solder, Self-Fluxing Enter Solder Co. Solders Blaster Solder Co. Strapping--Metal Stanley Works, The. Switchboard Mats and Floormg Aeras Steel Co. American Allsafe Co. Industrial Products Co. Safety First Supply Co. Surty Mfg. Co., Inc. T Tools--Linemen*! Klein, Mathias A Sou. Tools--Non-Sparking American Metal Products Co. Traffic Markers Challenge Machinery Co. Metal Traffic Marker Corp. NUsly Co., Walter S. Treads--Safety American Abrsike Metal* Co American Mason Safety Tread Co. Central Iran A Steel Co. Durable Mat. Co.. Inc. Surty Mfg. Co., Inc. Trestles--Safety Extensjon Patent Scaffolding Co. Trophies Williams Jewelry A Mfg. Co. Win.hip i'. , riuv A. * Trucks--Hand !'*< Mulnet i'.-uitdiy .v Ma*titno Co, V Ventilating Apparatus Fangborn Corp. W Washers--Safety for Grind ing Wheels Standard Safety Equipment Co. Waste Cans Bullard-Daris, Inc. niener Co., Geo, W, Justrlte Mfg. Co. Mine Safety Appliances Co. Water Coolers Bundle Spence Mfg. Co. Window Cleaner OaJclte Products. Inc. Window Cleaners' Safety De vices American Allsafe Co. Wrenches--Hopper Car Industrial Products Co. Safety First Supply Co. Safety Wrench A Appliance Co, Industrial Xatett Market AS a service to our readers, we endeavor to main tain a complete list of the source of supply of all types of safety and allied equipment. If you do not find what you want in the advertising pages, send in the coupon below, and we will have forwarded to you without charge, or obligation, detailed information and catalogs on material to meet your requirements. National Safety News, 108 East Ohio Street, Chicago Please have forwarded to me from various manufacturers, without charge, prices, catalogs, etc., on the following material: Specifications: (Be specific as to size, capacity, quantity, etc., when prices are wanted.) Company ... Address ..... Your Name When writing advertisers, please mention S'A TIONA /, SAFHTY S'RIFS 104 ~' NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS (r L E The lenses rest evenly on the wide flat edge of the eyecup, positively exclud ing dirt and permitting ready cleaning of the lens surface. GREATER COMFORT... light weight, proper Jit, wide Jield of clear vision Duralite means added safety to the worker's eyes. Light in weight, DURALITE, with its well-rounded edges, fine balance and neat fit, rests comfortably on the face; and will not irritate or annoy the wearer. Furthermore, DURALITE affords a wide field of vision, comfortable and clear, through the well-known Super-Armorplate lenses. The material from which DURALITE eyecups are made was selected because of its substantial character and its adaptability to mould ing to the contour of the face. It is moisture-proof and a non-conductor. With DURALITE on the job, eyes are fully protected, vision is sharp and clear, and both eyes and head are comfortable ! AMERICAN OPTICAL COMPANY Safety Division new york st. louis san francisco Chicago Kansas city Atlanta When writing advertisers, please mention NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS I QUALITIES tdmtmade it FIRST- QUALITY t/ummahts it LAST The removable mounting board, which makes post ing easy; the special ventilating feature, that prevents fogging; the scientific lighting, that makes the boards as effective by night as by day; the weather proof feature, that permits installation indoors or out;-TM all these qualities have made Diamond Boards first and foremost in the minds of discriminating buyers. Combined with these outstanding qualities is the inbuilt Diamond quality that makes these boards render maintenance-free uninterrupted service, year after year. Quality that makes first cost last cost. Quality that leads many plants to consider the boards as capital investment, not as expense. A Symbol ol Quality and a Pledge at Service The number 28 illustrated is 28 x 35 x 4; the 33. an other popular model, is similar in design, has a gable roof; special boards are made under the same rigid quality standards to your own specifications. Write for prices. SAFETY FIRST SUPPLY COMPANY MANUFACTURERS OF '"DIAMOND" SAFETY EQUIPMENT Brady Building, (Third Avenue and Ross Street) ^Pittsburgh, *?A Th HE Super-Drednaut Service Guar antee is no luke-warm, half-way Guaran tee. It does not come forward timidly, hesitatingly. In plain, unmistakable terms, it calls the whole goggle-buying public to witness a pledge--a pledge that undertakes to pro tect every single dollar invested by the buyer in Super-Drednaut Goggles. The Super-Drednaut Service Guaran tee is an expression of our supreme con fidence in the superior performance ability of the Super-Drednaut Goggle. And by the same token, it's your guarantee of the great est value it is possible to secure in a goggle. Manufactured and sold exclusively by Safety Equipment Service Company BUELL W NUTT. Prwident 1228 St. Clair Avenue Cleveland, Ohio Branches in Principal Cities BACKED BY A FFADl 1= A Fair Offer ---To Safety Engineers, Plant Super intendents and other responsible executives interested in eye protection we will be glad to send a sample pair of Super-Drednaut Goggles for examination and test under your specific plant conditions. We invite you to compare the Super-Drednaut with any other goggle on the market for strength, comfort, superior construction and protective quali ties. Let your judgment prove our claims. F D V I T F RII&RANTFF