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from overhead, foot injuries, eye injuries, cuts and abrasions, bums, mechanical and electrical hazards, and fire and explosion hazards These hazards could have an un favorable relationship to the disability of the handicapped person For example, a job that may involve foot injury hazards is un suitable for the diabetic because of his sus ceptibility to gangrene of the feet and slow healing of wounds or union of fractures Will it work? Many industries have per fected their own special plans for selective placement, based on an adaptation of the principles suggested here The United States Civil Service Commission has made great progress and had outstanding success in matching disabled workers to suitable jobs through the use of a similar method (See form reproduced in Fig 40-6 Also see the state employment service forms repro duced in Fig 40-7) Details of the technique for using the form shown m Fig 40-6 are contained in A Man ual of Job Analyses for Physical Fitness Re quirements, obtainable from the U S Civil Service Commission, Washington, DC It is recommended as well worth study by those who wish to develop improved methods of employee placement Other volumes sug gesting different methods which warrant review and study are shown in the references Particularly recommended is the work by Bert Hanman, Physical Abilities To Fit the Job, published by American Mutual Liability Insurance Company, Boston References American Association of Industnal Nurses, Inc , 170 East 61st St, New York, N Y 10021 Standards and Criteria for Evaluating an Occupational Nursing Service 1965 American College of Surgeons, Committee on Trauma Emergency Care ofthe Sick and Injured Available from W B Saunders Company, West Washington Square, Philadelphia, Pa 19105 Amencan Conference of Governmental Industnal Hygienists, 1014 Broadway, Cincinnab, Ohio Guide to Health Records for Health Services in Small Industries Amencan Medical Association, Dept of OccupaUonal Medicine, 535 North Dearborn St, Chicago, 111 60610 Guide to Developing an Industnal Disaster Medical Service Guide to the Development of an Industnal Medical Records System Guide for the Development of Medical Directives for Occupational Health Nurses Guide for Industnal Immunization Programs Guide to Small Plant Occupational Health Programs Guiding Pnnctples ofMedical Examinations in Industry Occupational Health Services for Women Employees Scope, Objectives, and Functions of Occupational Health Programs Standard Nomenclature of Diseases and Operations, 5th ed Survey of the Occupational Environment The Legal Scope of Industnal Nursing Practice Amencan Mutual Liability Insurance Company, Engineenng Department, Boston, Mass Physi cal Abilities to Fit the Job Amencan National Red Cross, 17th and E Sts NW, Washington, D C First Aid Textbook Latest revision American Nurses' Association, Inc , 10 Columbus Circle, New York, N Y 10019 Functions, Standards, and Qualifications for Occupational Health Nurses Guide for the Development of a Manual for an Employee Health Program Bndges, Clark D Organization and Operation of an Occupational Health Program Chicago, Industnal Medical Association Hess, Gaylord R Medical Service in Industry and Workmen's Compensation Laws Chicago, Amencan College of Surgeons 1241