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FILE NAME: National Safety Council (NSC) DATE: 1931 Oct DOC#: NSC054 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Transactions of the NSC - 20th Annual Safety Congress 6h^ T E l (*{ !wvt Mti!r,:r>ii> -v-s-' w - , 4 mV. / m",- : m w w ^ w ,' !>. <Wl' v u -y ^ iV ,M '^;i ^ gl . wm 19 31 TRANSACTIONS # l| i llilli ;i raSsI 1 t| 1 1 I N a t io n a l S a f e t y a1 -1 (3 n n c 1.1 Incorporated TWENTIETH ANNUAL SAFETY CONGRESS AjriI 1 I ;,v-'jwfJ II I :i l i i l1 f??/})* r. Chicago mvv - October 12 to October 16, 1931 The Hotel Steven* Wti $ : PAGE Council Officers and Directors .................... ................ ........... ................................ 3 Council Purposes and Policies .................................................. ................................ General Sessions-- Annual Meeting of M em b ers.................................................. ........................... 9 Annual Banquet ................................................................... .................................. 31 Advanced Safety Engineering ............................ . .............................................. 47 Foremen's Forum .................................................................. General Round T a b le -----..................................................................................... 87 Fire Prevention .................................................................................................. 123 Industrial Health S e c tio n .................................................................................... 151 Industrial Nursing Section ................................................................................... 215 Community S a f e t y ................................................................................ 237 Psychology and Safety ........................................................................... .. 253 Accident Prevention Equipment Manufacturers'. S ection .................. . 297 Aeronautical Section .............................................................................. A, S. S. E.--Engineering Section.................................................. ...................... 333 Automotive and Machine Shop Section.......................................... Cement Section ................................................................ Chemical Section ................................................................................ Construction Section ....................................................................... Delivery, Taxicab and Bus Section ...................... .............................................. .. .. 601 Electric Railway S e c t io n .......................................................................... Em ployees' Publication Section ............................ 701 :*:::::::::::::: t-**;::: # In<!ex ........................................................................................ ! 63 301 365 409 473 SS7 645 821 The Council iB not responsible for the views expressed in the Papers submitted at the Congress nor in the discussions thereon. These mani festly are the product of individual opinion. NOTE Volume III of these Transactions, containing the Street and Highway Traffic sessions, Traffic School, Child Education Section, Home Safety, and Statistics Section, is being mailed automatically to members who are believed to be interested. Any other member of the Council may receive a copy of Volume III by requesting it. National Safety Council I Incorporated 20 North Wacker Drive, Chicago HONORARY MEMBERS A ssociation of I ron and Steel E lectrical E ngineers 1 R obert W. C ampbell Officers (1931-193?) C. W. Bergquist, President, J. I. B ana sh, Vice-President fo r Finance. J. E. Culliney, Vice-President for Engineering. ^ E dward D ana, Vice-President for Public Safety. H oward B. F onda, Vice-President for Membership. G. T. H ellm uth, Vice-President for Business Administration. J ohn E. Long, Vice-President for Division of Safety Councils. A rthur M. T ode, Vice-President for Industrial Safety. A. W . W h itn ey , Vice-President for Education. ' ' D r. C.-E. A. W inslow, Vice-President for Health. W ill Cooper, T reasu rcr, W. H. C ameron, Managing Director and Secretary. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (1931-1932) M. S. Ackerman, J r., Lehigh Valley Safety Council. W m. F. A rdern, Safety Division, Milwaukee Association of Commerce. C. B. A uel. Past President. J. I, Ban a sh , Consulting Engineer. E rnest W. B eck, United States Rubber Company. C. W. Bergquist, Western Electric Company. W. H. Cameron, National Safety Council. R. W. Campbell, Past President. Robert I, Catlin, Aetna Life Insurance Company. C. L. Close, United States Steel Corporation. W ill Cooper, Stevens Hotel. i G. E. Cress, Mason City Safety Council. J, E. C ulliney, Bethlehem Steel Corporation. . E dward D ana, Boston Elevated Railway. Lewis A. D eBlois, Past President. G. A. Dueller, Public Utilities Section. Marcus A. Dow, Past President. H oward B. F onda, Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (U. S. A. ) Inc. H arry G uilbert, The Pullman Company. G. T. H ellm uth, Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee R. R. Co. W alter G. K ing, Past President. F rank J. L a n a h a n , Fort Pitt Malleable Iron Company. F rank A. L auerman, Metals Section. D r. M. G. Lloyd, ASSE-Enginecring Section. J. E. Long, The Delaware & Hudson Railroad Corp. H. W, Lormor, Cleveland Safety Council. A rthur T, M orey, Past President. 4 Tu'cnticSh Congrcss---Naiwtud Safety Council Lew R. P almer, Past President. C. E. P ettibone, Past President. H enry A. R eninger, Past President. J ohn R ussell, J r., Construction Section. G. E.i S anford, General Electric Company. 1Chares B. Scott, Past President. Zenos E. Scott, Superintendent of Public Schools, Springfield, Mass. Lester D. Seymour, United Air Lines. J ohn S. S haw, Chemical Section. ' Ernest L. S imonds, New Haven Safety Council. J ohn H. T aylor, Birmingham Safety Council. Arthur M, T ode, Consulting Marine Engineer, C. P. T olman, Past President. Merle E. T owner, Baltimore Safety Council. V incent W akefield, Refrigeration Section. George H. W arfel, Steam Railroad Section. Dr. C. H. W atson, American Telephone & Telegraph Company. A. W. W hitney, National Bureau of Casualty & Surety Underwriters. Dr. C.-E. A. W inslow, Yale Medical School. A rthur H. Young, Past President. . tt. ) DIRECTORS (1931-1932) M. S. Ackf.rman, J r., Lehigh Valley Safety Council. Robert C. A nderson, Safety Division, Dayton Chamber of Commerce. W m. F. A rdf.rn, Safety Division, Milwaukee Association of Commerce. E rnest A ugustus, Chillicothe Safety Council. J ames H. Baker, Hudson County Safety Council. J. I. Banash, Consulting Engineer. R. C. Barr, Woodworking & Lumber Manufacturing Section. E rnest W. Beck, United States Rubber Company. C, W. Bergquist, Western Electric Company. David S. Beyer, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. D r. R. C. Bitterman, Eastbay Safety Council. E. F. Blank, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. W. R. Boyd, J r., American Petroleum Institute. N orman Call, Richmond Safety Council. W. H. C ameron, National Safety Council, Robert I. C atliu, Aetna Life Insurance Company. T. P. C hapm an, St. Louis Safety Council. H arry J. Clark, Safety Division, Syracuse Chamber of Commerce, C. L. Close, United States Steel Corporation. W. H, Com in s, Mining Section. Dr. R andall Condon, Child Education Section. W ill Cooper, Stevens Hotel. - G. E. Cress, Mason City Safety. Council. j. E. Culliney, Bethlehem Steel Corporation. E dward Dana, Boston Elevated Railway. F. A. D avidson, General Scaffolding Engineers, Inc. Clifford Davis, Street & Highway Traffic Section. Charles D. D awson, .Grand Rapids Safety Council. A, K. D ean, Rochester Safety Council. Lewis A. DeRlois, Consulting Engineer. Lawrence E. D ickson, Accident Prcventwn Equipment Manufacturers' G. A. D oeller, Public Utilities Section. R. E. Donovan, Petroleum Section. Officers and Directors L, M. Dotterrkr, Automotive & Machine Shop Section. J ames B. Douglas, The Philadelphia Gas Works Company. M arcus A. Dow, Delivery, Taxicab & Bus Section. Dn, Louts I. Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. F. L. D uggan, Western Pennsylvania Safety Council. F rederic W. E aston, Blackstone Valley Safety Council. E dward R. Egger, Employees' Publication Section. H arvey Ellerd, Armour & Company. I. B. F inkelstein, Delaware Safety Council. H oward B. Fonda, Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (U. S. A.) Inc. R ichard R. Foster, New Orleans Safety Council. S am G anz, Kansas City Safety Council. J ames G ill, Hazelton Safety Council. P, H. G latfelter, York County Safety Council. E rnest P. Goodrich, Consulting Engineer. W. J. Graves, Power Press Section. J. F. G reen, Madison County Safety Council. H airy G uilbert, The Pullman Company. . I saiah H ale, The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company. D. T. H arrington, U. S. Bureau of Mines. f E. M. H einselman, Safety Bureau, Duluth Chamber of Commerce. G. T. H ellmuth, Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee R. R. Co. Chas. E. H ill, New York Central Lines. C. L. H uncereord, Rubber Section. J ohn S. H unter, Marine Section. H arry D. I mmel, Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry. J, Brook J ackson, General Motors Corporation, J ohn P rice J ackson, New York Edison Company. A. B. J ennings, Newark Safety Council. Dana E. J ones, Manufacturers Association of Erie. Ira V. Kepner, Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company. F rank J. L anahan, Fort Pitt Malleable Iron Company. F. A. L auerman, Metals Section. R. M. L ittle, New York Department of Education. Dr. M. G. L loyd, ASSE-Enginecring Section. J. EL Long, The Delaware & Hudson Railroad Corporation. H. W. Lormor, Cleveland Safety Council. EL T. M artin, Fisk Rubber Company. P axton M endelssohn, Detroit. R. B. Mqrley, Industrial Accident Prevention Associations. Dr. T. F. M urphy, Statistics Section.' C. E. McBride, Fort W ayne S afety Council. M iller McClintock, Harvard University. T. H. McKjenney, Illinois Steel Company. R oy McKenzie, Chattanooga Safety Council. A. D. McW horter, Safety Division, Memphis Chamber cf Commerce. J ohn A. Oartel, Carnegie Steel Company. E, J. O 'B rien, Louisville Safety Council. George C. A. O pp, The Detroit Edison Company. L ew R. P almer, Equitable Life Assurance Society. W. E. P atterson, Etowah County Safety Council. CL E, P ettibone, American Mutual Liability Insurance Company. EL E. P lace, Textile Section. J, J, P lzak, Paper and Pulp Section. J ohn P rince, Quarry Section. ' i () Twentieth Congress--National Safety Council Chas. E. Redfern, Providence Safety Council. S amuel H. R eid, Electric Railway Section. H enry A. Reninger, Lehigh Portland Cement Company. Chas. I..' R ice, Chicago Safety Council. Dr. A. D. R isteen, The Travelers Insurance Company. J ohn R ussell, J k., Construction Section. G. E. S a n fo r d , General Electric Company. C harles L. S awyer, Toledo Safety Council. H enry G. Schaffner, Erie Safety Council. Otto Sch en k , Wheeling Safety Council. C harles R. Scott, Bureau of Safety. Zenos E. Scott, Superintendent of Public Schools, Springfield, Mass: L ester. D. Seymour, United Air Lines. J ohn S. S haw , Chemical Section. Gen. J ohn H. S herburne, Massachusetts Safety Council. Dr. L. A. S houdy, Bethlehem Steel Corporation. J ohn D. S huart, Springfield Safety Council. E rnest L. S imonds, New Haven Safety Council. O liver T. S kellf.t, Safety Division, St. Paul Association. Matthew S. S loan, Brooklyn Safety Council. E. S. Spring, Lehigh Valley Transit Company. H. J. S poerer, Evanston Safety Council. George R. Stephens, The Safety Bureau, Buffalo- Chamber of Commerce. E thelbert S tewart, U. S.' Bureau of Labor Statistics. Lucius S. Storrs, United Railways & Electric Company. W. A. S ullivan, Food Section. Alfred H. S wayne, General Motors Corporation. J ohn H. T aylor, Birmingham Safety Council. * H enry D. T efft, Meat Packing, Tanning and Leather Industries Section. T. R, T ennant, Hammond Safety Council. A rthur M. T ode, Consulting Marine Engineer. < M erle E. T owner, Baltimore Safety Council. / W. D. T urbeville, San Antonio Safety Council. W illiam F. V eech, Rahway Safety Council. R ichard F. W agner, Lynchburg Safety Council. V incent W akefield, Refrigeration Section. Robert R. W allace, Worcester Safety Council.' George H. W arff.l, Steam Railroad Section. Dr. C. H. W atson, American Telephone & Telegraph Company. H arry M. W ebbfjr, Illinois Bell Telephone Company. W. L. W hite, J r., Cement Section. S, E. W hiting, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. A. W, W hitney, National Bureau of Casualty & Surety Underwriters. W, H. W in a n s, Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation. C. T. W inegar, Detroit Industrial Safety Council. D r. C.-E. A. W inslow, Yale Medical School. J. M. W oltz, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company. ''" ' "l /i^ /r, " V r, ' f S '-'V 1 ' ,i(>5 \~ " fP l TWENTIETH ANNUAL SAFETY CONGRESS NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL d : 1'y t i '<% Public Utilities Section Ji; Officers 1930-31 General Chairman--E. S. Beaumont, The Peoples Gas Light and Coke Co., Chi cago, III. Ficc-Chairman in Charge of Gas interests--Gordon W ilson, Management and En gineering Coite, Chicago, Illinois. Vice-Chairman in Charge of Electrical Interests--G, A. Doeller, Columbia En gineering & Management Corp., Dayton, Ohio. Ficc-Chairman in Charge of Telephone and Telegraph Interests--F. M. Peeper, Illinois-Bell Telephone Co., Chicago, 111. Secretary--J ohn J. B arada, The Laclede Gas Light Co., St. Louis, Mo. CAtrwuw, Poster Committee--A. A. pLpFucuj, Wisconsin Power and Light Co., Madison, Wis. Chairman, Membership Committee-- C. E. McBride, Northern Indiana Public Service Co., Fort Wayne, Ind. Chairman, Publicity Committee--A. R, Gray, The Peoples Natural Gas Co., Pitts burgh, Pa. Chairnum, Program Committee--C. B. Boulit,, Wisconsin Public Service Corp., Milwaukee, Wis. Chairman, Statistics Committee--E. J. K reh,' Duquesnc Light Go., Pittsburgh, Pa. Chairman, Engineering Committee--R. A. Bi.oomsburq, New York Power and Light Co., Albany, N. Y. Chairman, Committee on Slides and Safety Kinks--H oward M. S haw , North Amer ican Light and Power Co., Chicago, Illinois. Chairman, Fire Prevention Committee--H. B. Hammer, The Philadelphia Electric Co., Philadelphia, Pa. News-Letter Editor--Wtx. M. D ickson, The Bell Telephone Co., of Penna., Pitts burgh, Pa. Foreign Representative--C. B. P arker, Compania de Electricidad, Havana, Cuba. Councilors-- C. B. Scott; Bureau of Safety, Chicago, Illinois. H. M. W ebber, Illinois Bell Telephone Co., Chicago, Illinois. B, B. McCulloch, Bureau of Safety, Chicago, Illinois. C. H oward Stewart,- The Laclede Gas Light Co., S t Luit, Mo. H. F. W eb*, The West Penn Electric Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. George C A. O ff, The Detroit Edison Co., Detroit, Mich. H. L. Mead, The Ohio Bell Telephone Co., Cleveland, Ohio. J. L. VNDECRirr, The Chesapeake ffc Potomac Telephone Co., Washington, D. C. C harles C. Atwood, The Brooklyn Union Gas Co., Brooklyn, N, Y; W. A. B uchanan, Appalachian Electric Power Co,, Welch, W. Va. "vvSltl AHi v lf iftl L7,,# 1 'i'j % u>'ih> fi h.|! P'jl! - `'t$M 'W :i AM ,1 ij Twcnticth Congress--National Safety Council V- ; '............. . Tuesday Morning Sesaion October 13, 1931 E. S. BEA U M O N T, Chairman The People* Ga* Light and Coke Company, Chicago, 111. The first session of the Public Utilities Section convened with General Chairman E. S. Beaumont presiding. C hairman Beaumont: The first talk on our program is one that is decidedly interesting to safety men. We have discussed it before but there is much for all of us to learn in selling the safety program. Whether we sell it to the management, to the men, or to the public, those arc but different phases of the safety program, all of them being important. The gentleman who is to discuss this subject is highly qualified to do so. It gives me great pleasure to introduce Mr. Joseph W. Hicks, of the Byllesby Engineering and Management Coporation, Chiicago. . Selling The Safety Program By JOS. W. HICKS Publicity Director, Bylleaby Engineering gad Management Corporation A well known industrial executive said recently that there are four main ways and means of reducing accidents in this country: first, the enactment of laws; second, the enforcement of those laws; third, improved engineering practices; and fourth, education, w'hich he said is the most important because it has to do with the human element. Certain efforts have been made by power companies in recent years to educate the public concerning hazards which result from ignorance and carelessness, i Public utilities have done considerable newspaper advertising with the appeal that care should be manifested by those who may carelesssly or recklessly come in contact with power hazards. Among the most common types of advertised warnings with which you are familiar, probably, are those directed against kite flying with wire used ias string or tail. In discussing this type of advertising with a utility executive of long experi ence the other day, I was surprised when he remarked, "Why is money wasted in printing advertisements about kite flying? Nobody ever sold any power to a kite and this kind of advertising has never brought us any business." It occurred to me then that if this man was sincere in his statement there must be other executives whose attitude regarding safety education is similarly warped; and while we are working out ways to make our present and future citizenry safety con scious, we might profitably spend considerable time and money in an effort to educate some of our own associates as to tHeir duties and responsibilities, from a safety stand point, to their employees and their public. In other words, perhaps our chief safety educational program should start under our own roof. The public utilities safety program could be sold more quickly and more effectively, in my opinion, if we utilized more completely and more intelligently some of the facilities which we now have at our disposal. Having entered the utility business by the employee magazine route, after a number of years as a newspaper man, I believe an employee publication can be equally as valuable a factor in Safety educa tion as it is supposed to be in promoting esprit dc corps and building employee interest in the growth or development of an organization. The National Safety Council and other safety agencies have done such a thorough job of broadcasting safety information, however, that nine out of ten employee maga zine editors have been spoiled. They have become too lazy to originate and develop a safety news department based on the news and experiences which are obtainable from within their own organization; the safety end of their job has been made too easy. Employee magazines in industrial institutions have grown with tremendous impetus ' during the past five years. They have been a valuable factor not only in the promo tion of loyalty and service but in educating executives and employees in the scope of commercial development and institutional training.T hcy have utilised every available accessory in becoming editorially and mechanically perfect. :Scunc of them rival in appearance and'make-up some of our) leading! fiction?magazines. Yet, generally speaking, tlicir safety departments contain less'originality "and more boiler plate, syndicated or clipped sermons,' and more alleged essence of philosophy than will interest the average employee,; attract his attention, or; make any impression on'him as faras his safety consciousness is concerned. Proper utilization of the employee magazine is one of the foremost means of selling your safety program. But first of all, be sure that you have an editor who is safety conscious and one who is permitted sufficient time to study hazardous conditions that may exist in ,your system and work out means of bringing these problems to the attention of your employees in a forceful, interesting and; effective manner. He may give broad publicity to safety campaigns. < He may print and reprint safety rules of your company. He may outline how accidents happen, and he may, through the help of his safety supervisor, tell how those accidents might have beat avoided. He may publish the names and cite the instances of careless acts without regard for the personal feelings of those who arc responsible for carelessness; for it undoubtedly: is better to offend the sensitiveness-of an individual through constructive criticism than to permit a repetition of his carelessness, which may result in further injuries and casualties to himself and his fellow workers. If any section of a magazine permits frank speaking and constructive criticism, the employee magazine's safety department is the one place where such statements may lie broadcast in the loudest tones. I do not mean to be critical of the material I have styled sermons and boiler plate, emanating from :the." publicity departments of - organizations interested; in ;safety promotion. However, the wide awake employee magazine editor, instead <of using these general statements of fact and philosophy in their verbatim form, may obtain from them ideas about which he can develop local items of local interest resulting in local benefit, i , Contact between the utility company and the homes of employees offers considerable, value in safety education work. Most of our companies maintain such contacts'; in various ways, A safety section appears in practically all of the companies' employee magazines each month and in some companies special issues are produced devoted almost entirely to safety work. These publications in several of our companies are sent directly to the employees' homes. The safety teams and safety classes conducted by utilities have been valuable assets in training employees and the public. However, care must be taken to see that the use for which these first aid teams are intended is not overshadowed by the utili zation of their services as publicity'attractions rather than in the actual furtherance; of public first aid instruction. - ,r Newspapers will cooperate with any industrial organization in the dissemination; of safety information, so long as the information or cooperation given them is based cm news and does not smack of publicity tomfooleric. One of the most reliable news sources that I ever had as a newspaper man was a public utility company which maintained an inhalator squad available for public benefit as well as for use in'life saving attempts among its employees. An emergency line crew carried if with other equipment in answer to every fire alarm, and it was used also in covering a radius of 25 miles whenever drownings were reported to the police department. This company's publicity department reported to the city desk of each newspaper iri that town immediately upon receipt of information concerning a fire or accident, thus enabling the city editor to dispatch reporters to the scene many times when the regular