New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1911-12-23
SAFETY FIRST,


| dustrlal concern, safety is still far
from assured.
No railroad, factory, or indus
trial organization Of any kind. is
safer than its most careless and
Negligent employe. Injuries and
losses will continue to be sus-
tanned until carelessness and meg
/ llgence are eliminated.
To establish safety on the rail,
you must convince the careless or
| negligent workman that you are
| watching his work and that you
are anxious that he shall do his
work right.
That there shall be the highest
degrees of safety on the railroad
which traverses your community.
Is another case of everybody's g
business. And remember that
everybody's business means You.
personal business.
Everybody includes both mas
ters of the road and their men.
Everybody includes the trav-
cling public.
Everybody includes the far
aers along the right of way.
Everybody includes every man
or woman who pays taxes.
Everybody includes the shipper
of freight.
1t should be a matter of per-
sonal anxiety with all those
enumerated above that safety to
life, body, and property should
be assured On the railroad.
When any of these people see
any carelessness or negligence
among the operating hands of a
railroad, it is their duty to them
selves and their community 10
call attention to the matter, so
that the weak links in the chain
may be strengthened and that ali
shall be made to feel that safety
is a thing that depends upon
them.
The employees of the Frisco
Lines have inaugurated notable
movement under the direction of
the Central Safety Committee.
This movement has already ex-
tended its rammifications into
every department of the roads
operation. It is there to stick.
To the workmen it means some
thing big and vital. It means to
them that all who are on the
roads payroll want to stay there
and not be knocked off by dis
abling injury.
To the officers of the road it
means that their men have taken
long step in advance, a step
which will mean greater safety
and greater happiness to them,
and which means to the company
fuller force of trained and ex-
perienced workmen. And this is
gratifying to the officers Of the
road, for they know that there is
nothing so demoralMing to the
prosperity of any business as the
impairment Of it's working force,
whatever it's cause may be.
"Safety First" is the slogan Of
the men i'm this movement on the
Frisco. They should have every
body's help, and that increase
you.
The most determined effort on
the part of industrial manage
ments to insure safety has in
variably proved futile. In the
last analysis, it is up to the men
who do the work. The Safety
Movement on the Frisco was
inaugurated by the men them
selves to reduce the dangers of
their calling. t. stands totally
and exclusively for elimination of
personal injury and property loss,
and is in no sense contrived for
the purpose of finding cause for
discipline.
The brains are never all at the
top of the ladder. Suggestions
and right initiative on the part
of those on the lower rungs are
inestimably valuable and service
able.
A great industrial plant once
called for suggestions and rec
concentrations from it's 200,0O0I
employees. Within two years,
5000 suggestions and recommen-
dations were received, and nine
ty eight per cent of these were ac-
cepted and acted upon.