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8 Twenty-third .Innnal Safety Cnni/rens--National Safely Cuuneil Da. F. M. Sulzmax. Troy Safety Council. Alfred H. Swayxe. General Motors Corporation. Clarence P. Taylor. Massachusetts Safety Council. Arthur M. Tone. Consulting Marine Engineer. W. \V. Trench. Schenectady .Safety Council. \\\ 1). Turdeville. San Antonio Safety Council. J. A. Voss, Metals Section. H. A. Walker. Rubber Section. George H. Warfeu Union Pacific Railroad Company. On. Cass4vs H. Watson. American Tcleplwnie & Telegraph Company. Harry M. Wember. Illinois licit Telephone Company. Aluekt C. White. Jr.. Springfield Safety Council. S. HL Wiimxc. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. A. W. Whitney. National Bureau of Casualty & Surety Underwriters. W. H. Winans. Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. 1)r. C.-E. A. Winslow. Yale Medical School. Harry Wise, Sr.. Chattanooga Safety Council. J. M. Woltz. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company. W. E. Worth. International Harvester Comiany. K. J. Zauft. Safety Bureau. Duluth Chamber of Commerce. Earl \V. Zimmerman. Safety Div,, Syracuse Chaml*er of Commerce. J. B. Zook. Cement Section. Council Purposes and Policies The fundamental purpose of the National Safety Council is to conserve human life. It seeks this goal through a continuous campaign of accident prevention that is nationwide in scope, applies to all lines of hazardous activity, and directly or indi rectly reaches our entire citizenry. It is a non-profit organization non-sectarian, and free from political affiliations. Since its organization in 1913, it has won respect as an essential national institution. Inseparable from accident prevention is the Councirs work in improving health conditions and jiteventing vocational diseases in American industry. Today there are 4,000 incmliers, representing every state in the Union, and many of the Canadian Provinces. There arc 400 foreign members. The membership includes industrial cur|H>rations. firms, individuals, public officials, schools, chambers of commerce, clubs and civic organizations. About 70 per cent are industrial con cerns. including the hig steel companies, the oil ctrmpamcs, most of the railmads in tlte United States, the automotive industry, and others of outstanding unjiortancc in unr national industrial field. Origin and Growth The history of the Council is an absorbing story. Unfortunately it cannot be detailed here. Suffice to say llut the First Co-Of)erativc Safety Congress ivas held under auspices of the Association of Iron and Steel Electrical Engineers in Mil waukee. in 1912. and. as a result, the National Safety Council was organized in New York the following year with fourteen members. During the first year the member ship increased to 971. Tlie pioneers of American safety went to work on the sound premise that acci dents were an unnecessary part of our scia1 order and that through application of proper remedial measures they could be avoided. They set about to nationalize this theory, and to develop tlte detailed methods and materials through which accidents could lie jircventcd. The mcmliers of tin: organization now arc more than ever cint-mccd that accidents arc unnecessary and tint they can be and arc being pre vented. Striking examples of reductions in many different fields prove this conten tion. Results of Organized Safety Since the National Safety Council was organized in 1913, tlte national accident death rate in all fields excepting motor vehicle has ftccn reduced 42 per cent The motor vehicle accident problem continues to lie a serious one. While there was a slight decline in fatalities m 1932--the first drop that ever'occurred--1933 witnessed a slight increase, and the rise lias (teen so accentuated during the first three-quarters of 1934 that the year will probably represent a new. all-time higlu Bettcr-thanaverape results in motor vehicle safety have been achieved among school children, in commercial vehicle fleets, in states with projicrly administered drivers license laws and in cities wtfh an effective community safety organization. These bright spots indicate that tlte national problem can lie solved by a careful study and afiplicatum of the methods which (tare already produced results. Tlte National Safety Council was started as an industrial safety organization and the best results arc to he expected in this field. Here spectacular achieve ments have been made. Tlte steam railroads, for instance, have reduced the accident rate among employees 75 per cent during the past ten years. A group of our largest steel industries have cut their accidents 90 jh.t cent since 1913. Every year, scores of industrial establishments go through the entire year without a single'dis abling injury among their employees. Along with these reductions the whole psychology of accidents has changed. Employer and employee both look at the projiosition from a different viewpoint than they did some two decades ago. Accidents now arc really out of date. Tn many 9