^CH, 1944
THE ECHO
PAGE THREE
Ecusta Receives An Award For Safety Record
CERTIFICATE OF
merit PRESENTQ)
BY INSURANCE CO.
^Vrard Based On Record
Million Man-Hours
Without Lost-Time
We have recently received and
have on display in the lobby
* the Main Office a handsome
P 3que that was awarded by Lib-
g y Mutual Insurance company to
custa Paper corporation and its
®«^Ployees.
j plaque is for conspicuous
yflieyement in Accident Preven-
Q?*^ *^epresented by the operation
, the plant for one million man
without a lost time accident,
j hotostatic copies of the above
along with a letter of ap-
3t®^^^tion from Mr. Harry H.
j have been placed in bul-
i? boards throughout the plant.
^ he wholehearted cooperation
of by the entire personnel
sjj^he plant was responsible for
^®^gn't’^ extremely proud of such
I w- every one of you,
ish to say, well done.
•ute same cooperation and
in the prevention of per-
injuries as has been mani-
'louhf
for the next award will be
much greater number of
- ^ hours.
an award, and every employee
Safety
I^irector.
H. E. Newbury,
•^*•6 You Guilty?
unsafe practices have
^Uj.. ^oted throughout the mill
tiece the past few weeks and, if
the names of the em-
can be cited.
ttiy intention to try and
to j"^i“ass anyone, but if we are
a safe mill in which to
fUfjjj’ then the safety equipment
Safe ^ you must be used and
Practices must be observed.
of the unsafe acts listed
Sojjjg have resulted in injury and
Hate employees are fortu-
0{ ^ that their injuries were not
serious nature. .
you read these over and
the e]^ ^0 your part towards
aji(j J^ination of unsafe practices
® resulting injuries?
slipp falling from ladder that
H sk„ because it was not tied as
have been.
"ailing from scaffold while
t;o a board that was not
3,'> floTO.
^ Yetting wire on bales of flax
4) p bearing safety goggles.
caustic line on
belt, sphere without using safety
on top of digester
' ®) jj^^thout using safety belt.
.Running up and down steps
Office.
living electric truck around
‘iQfjj corners without blowing
'^'itsi^^^olling box with hands on
t pv^®tead of inside of box
to l^nabing ladder on box car
\t, Set “ ■■■ —
t“e jp ^ platform when steps
lO) j ® than twenty feet away.
w working tools,
^ lumber on floor
thn»f®^Ployees might stumble
U)
water hose on elec-
12) ^‘luipment.
craping paint from over-
Handsome Maqu^e Is On Display Now In Main Office
' jfer
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V 'X'-'
Here it is and every employee has a right to be extremely proud of the^ outstanding record in
Accident Prevention that made this award possible. Safety Director Newbury is urging e,veryone
to beat the former record.
Ever Look At It This Way?
It Might Pay You To Do So!
Anyone driving a car in such a
manner that he or she endangers
the lives of others may be arrested,
and fined or jailed, or both. Any
one who, through criminal negli
gence, causes injury to another
person is severely dealt with by
the law.
We recognize these things as
just and proper. It is one way in
which the law protects us. There
are many such laws. Such laws are
safety measures. These laws are
designed to prevent us from caus
ing danger or harm to other peo
ple. Are other people more valu
able than you or I? If you or I
are hurt or killed, our families
suffer, and the loss to industry and
the nation is just as real as if
anybody else had been the victim
of an accident.
We have Yules and regulations
that cause us to be punished if we
cause danger or harm to others,
but we have no laws to punish us
if we take needless chances that
may result in injury or death to
head pipes without having on safe
ty goggles.
13) Leaving stock hooks on plat
forms and floors with points of
hooks turned upward.
14) Driving company truck
around corner of Machine Shop at
too great a speed.
15) Running to and from the
Cafeteria at lunch time.
16) Undue haste throughout the
mill and especially at time of pay
off on Friday afternoons.
17) Failing to report minor in
juries because you do not feel that
they need medical attention.
Just remember that Safety is for
your sake and that injuries can be
prevented with your cooperation.
H. E. NEWBURY,
Safety Director.
ourselves. This is a somewhat
strange state of affairs.
It is a crime to cause danger to
others, but we can operate a joint
er or other machine without hav
ing the guard in place and it is
no crime because it is ourselves
who may be hurt. It is no crime,
at present, to chip concrete or
operate an emory wheel without
goggles, because it is only our own
eyes that are endangered.
The same thing applies if we
neglect to use a danger tag when
working on equipment that may be
started.
It is a crime to endanger some
body else—it is no crime to en
danger yourself. That may be so
in law, but you and I know that
morally it is a crime to ‘ take a
needless chance. If you are hurt
or killed, your dependents will suf
fer regardless of who caused the
accident.
I would ask you all to think this
over as you sit at home with your
family. Think of it too while at
work. Think of it always. You may
take a chance many times and
nothing will happen. But if you
continue doing so, you will some
day be injured, may be killed. You
will have committed a crime many
times—once too often in fact—and
the law of chance will have caught
up with you.
There are moral criminals in any
large group of people. There are
few of us who do not take needless
risks. You and I need to be con
vinced of the foolishness of chance
taking and the great wrong we do
our family and dependents each
time we do so.
Think it over. The responsibility
is yours. The price of neglect of
tJiis responsibility is often paid by
innocent wives and children.
5AFE
OFF-TWE-JOB, TOO
DEAR ME
-I LOOK
AWFUL ,
IN BLACK.'
NATIONAL MnU COUNCK
Look at that cat scat! Sure, he
has nine lives, but he knows what
the “Old Man’s” up to, so he’s
heading for the wide-open spaces,
in a hurry.
You can’t blame him. He’s got
respect for every one of his lives.
But you can blame the “Old
Man.”
Nothing may happen, you say?
Perhaps so. But the National Safe
ty Council says that more than
6,000 persons were killed and
thousands more injured by burns,
scalds and explosions in their
homes last year.
Plenty of these fearful accidents
can be traced directly to plain
foolishness in the use of gasoline
and kerosene.
Pouring kerosene on a fire is a
very good example of a very bad
practice. A fire that seems dead
can strip you clean as a whistle—
clothes, hair and eyebrows. That
is, if you’re lucky!
Most people get along without
having kerosene or gasoline in or
around their homes. That’s the
best practice, but if you must have
them, there are certain safety
measures you should take.