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Vol. 4, No. 1
E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company, Inc., Brevard, N. C.
February, 1971
ZERO IN ON SAFETY
Bob Coleman-
Subcommittee.
Safety Program
A year ago, the Brevard Plant
accepted a challenge set forth by
Company President, C. B. McCoy,
to build on Du Pont’s history of safety
leadership and its deep interest in im
proving safety performance. To have
met his stated goal, we would have
had only four major injuries over the
next ten years. We all know what
happened: five major injuries in 1970,
the first year of the decade. It’s clear
we have our work cut out for us in
1971 and beyond if we are to avoid
further disabling accidents.
For the past six months. Bob
Coleman and members of his Program
and Special Activities Subcommittee
have been developing a safety program
for 1971, designed to focus attention
on key safety problems and to moti
vate all employees to do something
about them. The ZERO IN ON SAFETY
program will fill the bill by “zeroing in”
on recognized safety problems with
publicity, group meetings, safety con
tacts, and most importantly, personal
acceptance of your safety responsi
bility.
Promotional materials will be
distributed for total saturation of the
ZERO IN approach. In coming weeks,
you will see buttons, banners, book
lets, and billboards highlighting and
dramatizing this program. The purpose
is to make us think about and become
aware of hazards before starting a
job . . . and while doing the job.
“The first application of the
ZERO IN approach will be directed
at hand injuries,” stated Bob Cole
man. “About two out of every three
injuries occur to the hands or fingers.
Before an employee exposes his hands
to a hazard, hopefully the ZERO IN
campaign will come to mind and thus
prevent an injury,” he added.
If what Bob has just said takes
place, each of us might envision the
following symbol every time we reach
out to touch, tug, turn, twist, tilt, or
otherwise expose our hands and
fingers to possible injury.
ON SAFETY
We Require
Customers . . .
Customers Require
Quality
“Quality Korner”
by Homer Boyer —Engineer, Process
Control
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Homer Boyer of
the Process Control Product Group
is assigned to quality control en
gineering for the entire giant. He will
guest edit a quality column “Quality
Korner’’ for FOTOFAX to keep us
aware of quality needs.)
“Quality is becoming more
important each day. Customers are
increasingly demanding better quality
and . . . they’re going to get it . . .
from somebody!
Each of us is a customer when
we buy a home appliance or car and
we expect it to perform as designed
when we get it. If it doesn’t, we’ll
perhaps go to someone else who can
satisfy our expectations.
It’s the same way with Du Pont
x-ray film customers. If we don’t make
top quality film all the time, it will
affect our sales and ultimately our
job security. The customer is the only
one who can provide job security.
As remote as some groups may
seem, all plant areas influence product
quality in some way. It is up to each
of us to provide the best workmanship
. . . and to continually strive to do
even better.”
IN THIS ISSUE
Foto People 2,3
Area of the Month 4
Handling Film in Light 5
New Supervisors 6
DERA Party Photos 7
Foto Safety 9
Foto Events 10
DURING
1971
The finger is on quality.