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BREVARD PLANT
PHOTO PRODUCTS DEPARTMENT
Off-Job Safety Bingo Ends
Saf-T-Bingo will end when the current
game is completed. It has been a part
of our workday for almost two years.
"What's the number for today?"
became a familiar question, and when
there wasn't one, we asked what hap
pened; that made it all worthwhile.
The program got off to a shaky start.
Some people followed the game avidly
from the first, but others threw their
first card into the trash. After a few
weeks, almost everyone played.
There were some surprises. Several
players had to wait until all shifts had
a chance to check their cards, then
watched as someone else walked away
with the money. C.B. Branson missed
a $100 prize after waiting eight days
as he thought of ways to spend it. At
the end of the next game, he missed
the $10 lemon award the same way.
$ome of us enjoyed the game more
than others. Jim Farley and Millard
Murdock probably liked it most. Each
of them collected $100 for "Picture
Frame" covers, then won the "Black
out" prize for an additional $125.
When it's over, more than 60 employees
will have divided over $4,000 in cash.
Most of us will still be wishing we could
have at least had the worst card just
once. Ten dollars for being worst is
lots better than nothing for being
mediocre.
The people who run the game have
had some surprises, too. Although they
had worked hard to develop a good set
of rules, they had to go back from time
to time to close loopholes and open
opportunities. The decision to pay
everyone in a tie was firm from the
first; it didn't seem like ties would
happen very often. When the very first
award was won by Jim Cassell, James
The annual DERA Picnic will require many weeks of planning. Some of the
members who have already started are (left to right); Carl Garren, Orville Mull,
Dana Mason, Harold Rahn, A! Haney, Joe Light, Fred Sorrells.
Hall, Tammy Barnett and David Bhelton,
a few eyebrows went up. Their 4-way
tie for $25 prizes was never repeated,
but a few extra antacid tablets were
used when Franklin McCrary, Orville
Mull and Rebecca Wynn all turned in
winning cards in the $125 game last
November.
Most of the work is complete for the
new off-job safety program which will
be started in June. The Off-Job Safety
Committee reminds everyone that the
big winners are those who weren't hurt
in the past two years. If you still have
the eyes, fingers and toes you had when
Bingo began, you've won a priceless
prize by working and playing safely.
Many people will miss playing Bingo,
but Becky McDaris is not one of them.
She is the ERD secretary who has done
the routine work of playing the game
from day to day.
"My children have really given me
a hard time about that," she says. "They
like to talk people into asking what
their mother does at Du Pont, so they
can say 'She runs the Bingo game!'"
EEO Objectives
Stated
It is the policy of the Brevard Plant
not to discriminate against any employee
or applicant for employment because of
age within statutory limits, race, religion,
color, sex, handicap, national origin or
ancestry with respect to hiring, promo
tion, demotion, transfer, recruitment,
termination, rates of pay or other forms
of compensation and selection for train
ing including the Apprenticeship
Program.
DERA Calls For Picnic Help
A DERA committee met on April 11
to begin planning the plant picnic which
they have tentatively scheduled for
August 18.
A general outline for a picnic might
go this way; arrive, say hello, eat, play,
relax. Those categories are very close
to the areas in which DERA needs help
from the members. The list of jobs is:
decoration, parking, reception, food,
games, announcing,music, fishing, amuse
ments and Bingo.
"Putting on a successful party for
some 3,000 people of all ages is a big
job which calls for as many thinkers and
do-ers as we can find," says Joe Light,
DERA President.
"Al Haney badly needs to hear from
people who will help him plan and
direct parking; Fred Borrells needs help
to plan and coordinate the games. The
announcer's booth is a clearing house
for all kinds of information about games
and winners, children lost and things
found. Jim Jacobs needs to find people
to spend some time behind the micro
phone there."
Joe Light is presently working on
amusements, Kathy Barnett has offered
to work on decorations, and Harold
Rahn is going to do Bingo again. Orville
Mull will be working on fishing and
music. No one is heading up Reception
as yet.
The committee asks that every mem
ber consider where their particular
abilities could be used for a little while
in planning or working at the picnic.
Members who will help are asked to
contact either Joe or the person working
on the job you're willing to do. If it
isn't convenient to contact someone
personally, drop a note to Joe Light in
the plant mail, call the DERA office
(5868) or the DERA Becretary (5257).
Vol. 12, No. 4
APRIL, 1979
Jim Wert thanks Joe Ashley for
addressing the Western North Carolina
Safety Council.
Plant Receives
Creel Award
This is the second consecutive year
in which our plant has received the
W. C. Creel 5afety Award. Jim Wert,
$afety Bupervisor, accepted the award
for the plant at the annual dinner
meeting of the Western North Carolina
$afety Council.
The Creel Award is the highest
award given by the council. Only
industries who have had no lost time
on-job injuries are eligible to receive it.
Our plant was one of only four industrial
employers receiving the award; we were
the only one to receive it for the second
consecutive year.
The Council meets quarterly, with
the dinner and awards meeting as an
annual highlight. The main event of this
meeting is a series of safety talks given
by first line foremen and supervisors
from the various member companies.
Joe Ashley of Casting Area spoke
as one of the nine speakers featured
this year. He pointed out to the atten
dees that positive results can come only
from thinking positively, and that an
effective safety program must begin
with genuine concern for the well-being
of people.
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