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Vol. 3, No. 3
E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company, Inc., Brevard, N. C.
August, 1970
TEAM EFFORT NEEDED TO IMPROVE
ON-JOB SAFETY
As a follow up on the recent
Safety Meetings held with all Plant
employees, I would again like to ex
press my grave concern over the cur
rent status of our safety effort. Three
Major Injuries in a period of three
months is unacceptable performance
when we consider that 3 plant em
ployees have suffered.
The final responsibility is mine
and I accept this completely, however,
I am firmly convinced that safety per
formance is good only when there is
team effort and all employees are
involved.
All of us are willing and we have
a clean, modern facility in which to
work. This makes everything in our
favor to demonstrate the Du Pont
Safety Philosophy, “All Injuries Can
Be Prevented”. Let’s all accept the
challenge and make the Brevard Plant
No. 1.
— Jack C. Dense
A TIME FOR STRAIGHT THINKING
With a union representation election scheduled to be held next
month, everyone will certainly agree that this is a time'for straight
thinking. Our production and maintenance employees will be called
upon to make an important decision —a decision that could affect all
of the people at the Brevard Plant and their families. It is important
because the outcome will determine whether employees will continue
to speak for themselves or will turn this right over to a third party
whose interests may not be the same as those of the individual employee.
There may be a lot of promises and rumors flying around during
the next few weeks. This is a good time to seek out the facts and
this can be done in a number of ways. One way is to examine your own
experiences and compare them with others who have worked under
union contracts.
Another way to get information is to ask questions of the or
ganizers and your supervision. Your supervisor is prepared to give you
factual answers to your questions, or get facts if he does not already
have them.
Perhaps a simple way to get at the basic answer is to ask your
self two simple questions: “What is really in it for me? Do I need this
union or does it need me?”
Yes, you ovve it to yourself and your family to GET THE FACTS
IN THIS ISSUE
Foto People 2,3
Doug Birch Views 3
One Million Trees 4
Customer Visits 5
Outside Safety 6
New Health Benefit 7
Biggest Picnic 8
Office Safety Team.
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CASTING MADE IT!
At 12:01 A.M. on Monday July
14th, the Casting Area reached a sig
nificant goal. Their 149 employees
went 500,000 exposure hours over
a 310 day period without an off the
job lost time injury.
How did they do it? The day
shift, following this achievement,
registered these reactions . . .
David Franklin . . . “We had a lot of
safety meetings, at least one per week.
We always emphasized on and off the
plant safety and kept up on how we
were getting along toward the goal.
Here at work, we always work together
as a team. We tell each other about
such things as wearing gloves. This
seems to carry over off the job too.
When we come in to work, we talk
about off the job safety to see how to
avoid accidents.”
Larry Gordon . . . “In safety meetings,
we stress dos and don’ts. On the unit,
we're told what we should and what
we shouldn’t do. This makes us more
safety conscious at home as well as
on the job. When you hear it every day,
it rubs off.”
Shorty Galloway . . . “We reminded
people safety off the job is just as im
portant as on the job. When we passed
250,000 exposure hours, we gave con
stant reminders. We let employees
know approximately when the award
would be won. This made everybody
conscious of the goal. Our safety phil
osophy is, “If a man doesn’t know how
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