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_ vpApg^ DIVISION" TlfAlit^S_TO YOU, WE WON COMPfTING WITH S7 NATIONAL SAFETY 61 DAYS SINCE OUR LAST LOST TIME ACCIDENT Messrs. John W. Hanes (left) and L. F. Dixon are shown reading the safety board message which announced to employees of the Paper Division that they placed first in the National Safety Coun cil Group A (Pulp and Paper Mills Division) Safety Contest for the year 1932. PAPER DIVISION "TOPS" IN SAFETY CONTEST CONDUCTED BY NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL IN 1952 We have come a long way together! For the past several years, or since the Paper Division has been competing in the yearly safety contest conducted by the National Safety Council, it has been the dream and desire of everyone to fin ish in that cherished position of FIRST place. In 1951, competing with 56 mills in the United States and Canada who av eraged working 170,000 or more man- hours monthly, the Paper Division fin ished in SECOND place in the Pulp and Paper Section safety contest. We were all pleased with this accomplishment, but not satisfied by any means. Why? . . . Because we had set our sights on reaching the TOP position. In 1952, thanks to every individual employed by the Paper Division, from Top Management on through every hourly worker in the mill, we DID fin ish in FIRST place in said contest. By doing this, we not only eliminated an untold amount of suffering and loss of wages to our personnel as a whole, but brought deserved recognition to our Management who has meant so much to us in our program for the prevention of personal injuries. When one stops to realize that we were competing with 57 mills in the United States and Canada who had one thousand or more employees; that these mills have organized accident preven tion programs, and still had an average frequency rate of 9.03 in 1952; then our own frequency rate of .42 for last 14
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