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good technicians who keep that business coming in. We ore dealing with other men's money in an organization of that tort, and dealing with other men's money in a way which i means we have to continually pro! gress in order to keep that money j at work and in order to continue to have an operating institution I and continue to have jobs both | for ourselves and for all of those J who ore associated with us. * < Thus, a safety program in an ] industrial institution is one of the I marginal factors thot contribute , to the production. I soy the objective of a manu facturing plant is to Produce. I like to put it thot it means put; ting into a freight car and freight I truck materials thot customers ! will buy, of a quality thot is satis- I factory, at a cost that is reasOn- j able. And to do all those things I best, we must do them safely. I i don't have to go into a lot of detail to remind you thot every; one of those requirements of a plant's operation are affected by j safety or lack of it. The cost most certainly is. Little things like compensation payments rep resent spending somebody's money. The maintenance of the faciii-. ties, the safety equipment, the protective medical facilities and all of the people who hove to do with it--those things represent money. The biggest loss though, I think, of money in safety work in a plant comes with the loss of time. Because, Time represents Money. Every minute of time in a plant is paid for and if that time is lost, it represents an economic waste and a lots of money that can't be replaced, It goes into the final cost of the product ond it becomes o very Important ele ment in that cost. The supervisor and the plant monoger and the plant executive who is interested in costs can't Ignore the safety factor. Quality, I think, is affected very materially by whether or not we have a safe place to work. If I'm standing alongside of a pouring track in a foundry, I always find myself wondering how soon some of that metal is going to splatter on to me. If I'm standing by a machine in a shop or walking down the aisle. I'm wondering always which one of those chips is going to land in my eye and I find myself doing that all the time ond when I'm thinking about that. I'm not think ing about my job. That must be true of others--perhaps every one. Because, in ignoring o port of the job that they ora supposed to be doing at the time because they are worrying about personal safety, they con't be putting their best into the work, getting the utmost in quality. They must be wasting some time ond, therefore, some money. So that to the extent that we con make a plant safe, we make it more economically sound as an operating institution. We can never hope to make a plant en tirely safe. We are dealing with people too, os I said before, and no one can predict what oae per son will do or another person will do, but we con do our best to make the plant as safe os we can. In order to do that, we must, of course, have a safety department. II .