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PAGE SIX the echo September, o h th ver sue ^^Tay. f ill hot eni nt) Se - ,)d t at SAFETY PAGE By H. E. NEWBURY, Safety Director /Invasion ACTICS ON THE HOME. // FRONT TOO^ Hope I GET TO 7WE FIRST 1945 ACCIDENT FACTS ARE ALARMING-FOOD FOR THOUGHT Reminder In the January issue of the Echo this year, the two following suggestions were made with ref erence to the hazards we. have here, in connection with the new construction. 1. Use only the regular walk ways provided by the Com pany, in going to and from your work, and to the Cafe teria. (Please do not takei short cuts or go near any ditcher or other excavations). 2. Unless your job requires it, do not go near any new con struction work. You will not only endanger yourself, but will possibly inteirferei with the work of others. These suggestions were made only for your protection, and it is very disappointing to see that they are not being followed. On several occasions recently, numerous employees have gone through the new construction areaa at various times. They have even jumped ditches, climbed over and under barricades, arid have resort ed to running in areas that were too rough to even walk in. Such tactics are truly dangerous, and for your own welfare and protec tion, should be stopped immedi ately. It has been said that “at the root of all carelessness is selfishness, or at least indiffeirence. None of us can afford to be careless about anything—our safd|ty, our work, our body, our friend, or our atti tude toward life, if we would be succcissful and enjoy a reasonable amount of happiness.” Let’s all think it over. BEW/U! Op HEAT RAyS . DID YOU KNOW? That during the past ten years 322,200 Americans were killed in motor vehicle traffic accidents? That it already appears certain that, with fewer motor vehicles on the road, the 1946 death toll from automobile accidents will be close to the all-time high of 1941 In the booklet of safety rules that all employees have received during the past five years, the fol lowing personal message appears on page one, over the signature of the President of our three com panies: “The Management is sincerely interested in doing all it can to prevent injuries to its employees Therefore, you are being given this booklet of rules and instructions to keep and study. Know and strictly follow these rules and in structions, and you will protect yourself and others from injury. Accidents, as a rule, are caused by someone not thinking, or by someone not using the proper care in his or her work or actions. It is the duty of those experi enced in safety to teach the inex perienced, and the duty of the in experienced to leam. Each of the rules and instructions in this booklet has been suggested by some supervisor or worker in this company. Most of the rules and in structions have been included to eliminate practices which have en dangered workers in the past. In the interest of your own, and your fellow workers’ safety, the Management urges that these rules and instructions be considered as a part of your job, and strictly fol lowed.” When management takes the above stand to try to protect us and eliminate personal injuries, surely, the least we can do is to heed and obey safe practice rules and instructions that ha>ve been outlined for us. Remember, when we all make up our minds to stop accidents, they will stop—and not before then. Remember This- Most accidents can be avoided, but it is right at the moment when our attention is distracted for a few seconds—when we take things for granted, that the “impossible” thing does happen. In ten seconds a man may be maimed; wrecking his life; bringing hardships and poverty; leaving all his past in ruins. A worker will never forget for even a moment, if Safety, Safety, Safety is drilled into him every day. He will never take a chance if foremost in his mind there is the thought that one chance may result in a serious injury. This means that our job of “4^* cident Prevention” requires the constant attention of every one of us, and that we are the ones who can and must “keep everlastingly at it” on Safety. —39,969? That accidental deaths of chil dren 5 to 14 years old numbered 6,700 in 1945? That the 1945 total of property loss in fires was approximately $484,000,000? The National Safety Council has just released a booklet on Acci dent Facts for last year, and you will find some unbelievable fig ures listed below. To begin with, there were 96,000 deaths throughout the United States during 1945, due to acci dents alone. These fatalities were listed by classes as follows: Occupational (civilian) 16,000 Motor Vehicle 26,200 Home (civilian) 33,400 Public (civilian) (non motor vehicle) 15,500 Military Personnel (non motor vehicle) 4,900 Based on the figures compiled by the Army and Navy Departments up to V-J Day (August 14, 1945) war casualties totalled as shown be low: Killed 261,608 Missing 32,811 Wounded 651,911 The accident toll on the home front from Pearl Harbor to V-J Day was as follows: Class Of Accident Deaths Injuries Motor Vehicle — 94,000 3,300,000 Home 118,000 17,500,000 Occupational (In dustrial work ers) — 66,000 6,600,000 Off-the-job (Indus trial workers) 94,000 8,400,000 It is truly alarming to see that a hundred thousand more deaths occurred on the home front due to accidents during the above pe riod than those purposely killed in World War II. The sad part about it, is that a great majority of the home front fatalities could have been prevented. A disaster, bringing death to 25, or even 10 persons, would crowd into the front .^pages of newspa pers throughout the country, in spiring many editorials. Yet the annual accident toll — 96,000 in 1945 — receives only passing no tice. Disasters have always been front page news to American citizens be cause of the number of lives lost. But the lives lost are relatively few when compared to the day-by- day life losses from ordinary, and for the most part, unspectacular accidents. This does not mean les sening precautions against disas ters, but it does suggest the tre mendously greater importance of guarding against every accident hazard, whether it threatens only one life, or a thousand. With fatalities hovering around the hundred thousand mark every year, and other personal injuries reaching the enormous figure of thirty-five million, it has really reached the stage where something must be done. Let’s all accept our part of the responsibility in accident preven tion work, and resolve now to ex tend our utmost efforts in helping stamp out personal injuries. Employee was using pc to sharpen end of s knife slipped and he deep laceration on his ^ SUGGESTION: Be careful when using edged tools. Always cut your body, never toward »»• I 'Ay/y>y/yy/-yyy/'')Vy'/ Employee was working j fined area when he f i struck his head on a P*P ’^p ceived a laceration on head. SUGGESTION: When confined areas, esp^ci*^ as, U there are overhead t braces, be raising up. very That the 96,000 accidental deaths last year, would have wiped out the entire population of eight counties the size of Transylvania? ■A in ^ Much has been about the very unsai ^ shown above. This Ijij, .je not only on hand tru^J- tK electric trucks as ^ trucks are not made sengers, and it is ^ , ity of operators and n® inate this hazard.
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