PAGE SIX
THE ECHO
October, 1946
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Si
i^FETY PAG
By H. E. NEWBURY, Safety Director
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AVOID
RA6EDV
DRIVE
CAREFULLY%
Children May Dart
Before Moving Cars
How many times have you read
of the life being snuffed out of
some innocent child, due to a traf
fie accident? Haven’t you made the
remark that “this will never hap
pen to me?” Isn’t it true that you
often drive through school dis
tricts or communities, where chil
dren are walking or playing on
the sidewalk or in the road?
Remember this. It can happen to
you, even when you’re driving at
a low rate of speed and as care
ful as possible.
To begin with, you can never tell
just what children will do when a
car approaches. A ball they’re
playing with may bounce into the
street . . . they may dart into the
path of your oar while playing tag.
Someone may yell RUN, and chil
dren will do just that without
thought of oncoming cars.
There were nearly 600 traffic
fatalities in North Carolina dur
ing the first seven months of this
year, and a number of these cases
were children of school age. The
majority of these deaths could
have b^n prevented through safe
driving tactics.
It is true that we all feel rea
sonably safe if we have good
brakes on our car and the roadway
we are driving on is dry. But, do
you know the average distance
your car will travel, when you
have to stop due to an emergency?
At 20 miles per hour, your car
will travel 43 feet. At 30 miles, 80
feet. At 40 miles, 128 feet. At 50
miles, 186 feet. If your brakes are
only passable, the distance will be
greater at each of the above
speeds.
In the interest of safety for you
and yours, we urge that you drive
carefully at all times.
CONSERVATION OF SIGHT
IS VERY IMPORTANT!
TAKE THAT CHIP
OfF YuUK ariOULDEk
If you are one of the many to
whom drivmg is no longer a pleas
ure, here is a hint tnac may oe
neiptul.
Next time you start out on a trip,
take that chip oif your snouiaer,
and take your sense of numor
along. Promise yourselt that you
won t let little things disturb you,
and see what happens. If someone
attempts to steal your right or
way, let him have it. Don’t yell at
him, but smile instead. Be indul
gent, as you would be with a small
Doy who reaches for the larger
piece of cake on the plate. A sale
journey, and a surprisingly pleas
ant journey, will be your reward.
Lecture Heard
At Cafeteria
One Out Of Twenty
Will Be Auto Victim
The next time your club meets,
or you have a family reunion, list
the names of twenty of those pres
ent. Let them be members of
your family, relatives or close
friends.
Look well upon their happy
faces, for at the present rate, one
out of that twenty will be killed
or injured in an automobile ac
cident within the next five years.
It may be you, or your daughter,
or your mother, or perhaps your
closest friend. It may be a minor
injury; it may be a crippling, dis
figuring casualty; it may be death.
These figures are based on the
law of averages. Fortunately, you
and your relatives and friends
can evade that law, with no pen
alty attached to the evasion.
You can beat the law of aver
ages by being above the average
in your walking and driving hab
its. If you and your group of
twenty will walk and drive safe
ly, the average injury will not
strike in the next five years; it
may not strike in the next twen
ty years; it may, in fact, never
strike.
Report all accident hazards im
mediately.
It's better to be sold on safety
than shortchanged by an accident.
for healths sake
GET Q HOURS SLEEP OUT
OF 24
Guards Placed To
Provide Protection
To begin with, we wish to state
that guards throughout the plant
are for your protection, and not
for the protection of the machin
ery.
Numerous guards and guard
rails have been removed for some
purpose during the past few weeks,
and have not been replaced. This
definitely creates dangerous haz
ards, and could easily result in
serious injury to one or more per
sons.
In the interest of your own
safety and that of your fellow
workers, won’t you please co
operate in seeing that all guards
are kept in place.
We are credited by our Insur
ance Carrier and our State Depart-
At the regular 'iUursaay nigni
pii;i,uie snow ac our caieicria on
uciooer luui, we were very lui-
lunate to nave Mr. ueorge (.^auip-
oeii lecture on s*gut coiu»ci'v«moi*.
Mr. Campoeil uvea in Oanuiess
for lb years, having oeen uorn
olind. He iirst saw light in Jan
uary, iy37, following two opera-
uons on each eye tor the removal
of cataracts, ana has spent the last
nine years lecturing on me great
importance of the conservation ot
sight.
The topic of his talk was “Out
of shadows”, and was thorougniy
enjoyed by the a50 persons in at-
tenoance. He was very empnauc
about the necessity of protecting
the eyes at all times, and especial
ly when doing any type worK tnat
could impair one’s vision. He stat
ed that after having talked in UoU
plants to over 750,000 production
employees in industry, he had not
found one person who could do
their job right imtil they did it
safely.
Having lived in two worlds, so
to speak, Mr. Campbell is in a po
sition to really appreciate the
value of being able to see, and
cited some very interesting ana
educational cases that he has come
m contact with.
Some of the important points
brought out by Mr. Campbell' in
his talk were as follows:
That new workers are in kinder
garten, as far as industry goes.
They know neither the hazards
nor the rules. That is why every
man of supervision, management,
or who professes to think safely,
should constantly watch, guide,
help and direct the new workers.
That two things must be true
before a job can be done right.
1. The individual worker must
possess the privilege to leave his
job, return to his home, live with
his family on the same high, de
cent plane, that he was when he
started that job, or it wasn’t done
right.
2. He has to be able to come
back tomorrow, or in ten years
from tomorrow, and repeat that
job with equal or better efficiency.
This is the only way we can
measure a job and say it has been
done right. Neither of them can
be true after a serious major ac
cident.
And in a word, serious major
accidents have been, and always
will be, the repeating of unneces
sary minor ones.
Mr. Campbell also stated that
since he had paid a price of 18
years in darkness before finding
out what sight was worth, he sin
cerely felt that it was his bus
iness to caution those who were
ment of Labor, with having one of
the best guarded plants in the
South. Let’s not lose that reputa
tion.
_ 'PicTuReDiBV
n
Employee) was holding nozd*
on end of fire hose, in pr®P®’’
ing to wash out pit. When wa**'
was turned on, it caused end o
hose to whip around and
the employed into the pit
SUGGESTION: Always have
sufficient help when handling
fire; hose. Turn the water °
slowly and brace yourself weU-
Employete had been drill
hole in steel plate and
leaned over to blow steel “
out of the hole, small
of the dust got into lW>th
wear
type
eyes.
SUGGESTION: Always
goggles when doing any ^
work that might injure the ey
A
Fires are easy to start ana
to stop.
careless in any way about
tecting their sight. He stresse^^^jj
fact that whether it was
use of safety goggles or ^
training, people should
what they are really
They should be impressed j,t
the thought of keeping their
to read a newspaper, drive a ^
see a motion picture, or 'vat
child playi
His closing remarks were
be seeing. Will you?” jt
The safety department jn
the plant is vitally intereste
helping you protect your visi
every way possible. We urge
you wear your goggles when
any type work that might i jjs
your eyes, and report all eye
immediately to First Aid.