subject: Cement Industry's Safety Practices And Committees [print this page] Henry A. Reninger, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Vol. 123
The sum total accomplishment before failure of accident prevention exert yourself, the functioning of safety committees and the position of the foremen, depend entirely in the lead the executives of a company. The organization, from the president down, so as to realizes the respect of safety and backs up the safety region and place in the ground superintendents, can expect results. However, anywhere lack of sympathy is manifested by individuals in the field of authority, nix results can live projected before obtained.
In the field of making a study of the results obtained by individuals companies which contain been unbeaten in the field of their safety exert yourself, we attain so as to they contain been unbeaten as of the money of the management and the precise and thorough exert yourself of the safety committees. As a rule of the unbeaten plants contain been well guarded, which perhaps relieves us of 20 for each cent of the exert yourself in the field of accident prevention; the balance is due entirely to the exert yourself of the safety committees.
We attain a profound many of these committees are collected of foremen, in support of the dissimilar companies realize so as to they are the key-men and the ones who necessity live absolutely educated to believe in the field of accident prevention exert yourself, in support of if they prepare not, results spirit not live obtained either in the field of their own region before in the field of the place in the ground at the same time as a sum total, in support of their position is reflected in the field of the exert yourself of the men. The safety board and the foremen necessity believe in the field of accident prevention exert yourself truthful at the same time as they believe in the field of whatever thing as well so as to prevents dissipate and increases efficiency in the field of all region.
The duties of the safety board were outlined at the same time as first at the same time as 1917 and a profound many of the unbeaten plants are following additional before with a reduction of along this organization.
The wide-ranging Safety board has been at odds and covers a tubby subject of activities-the Inspection board, collected of two before additional members, making a semi-monthly protection inspection of the plant as well as a thorough hazard analysis; the Fire board, making a semi-monthly inspection of fire hazards and all fire equipment; the initially Aid and clean board, having charge of initially aid, hospitals and all remedial materials and making a thorough protection inspection of the clean conditions of the place in the ground and all company dwellings; the Publicity and didactic board, keeping the Bulletin Boards clean and beautiful, instructing the men with reference to the place in the ground and working given away a protection program in support of the gathering; the Accident Investigation board, making an investigation of all serious accidents, treatment the cause of same and method of preventing parallel accidents.
Nix vigorously and fast reign can live laid down at the same time as to the figure of men on a board, at the same time as we attain all organization has its own ideas on this branch of learning, but the wide-ranging outline at the same time as known higher than has been followed.
All accidents are being reported to the companies, and the companies themselves commentary each lost-time accident to the bolster involvement.
The yearly study of accidents at the same time as in print in the field of the Accident Prevention Bulletin of the Portland bolster involvement is, devoid of question, probably the as a rule accurate of in the least industry in the field of the people and it has proven as a rule beneficial to the bolster companies interested III accident prevention exert yourself.
