Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-24
SAFETY TO BEGIN
IN STATE CAPITOL
Plans Made For the Organiza-
ton of the People in the
Departments

The State of Pennsylvania is be-
ginning safety first" organization at
home by forming committees devoted
to pushing the safety idea, doing away
with dangerous conditions and calling
attention to ways in which attaches
of the State government can be of
assistance. The State Safety First
organization will have it's headquarters
at the State Capitol and it is planned
to extend it to all State offices and
institutions. This movement is the
outgrowth of the conference on in
dustrial accidents held last month
The Capitol committee will be di-
rected by this committee: Governor
Brumbaugh; DR.. Samuel G.. Dixon.
Commissioner of Health; Samuel b.
Rambo, Superintendent of Public
Grounds and Buildings; DR.. John
Price Jackson, Commissioner of Labor
and Industry; DIR. Nathan c. Schaeffer,
superintendent of Public instruction;
Charles ID. Wolfe, acting State Fire
Marshal; Bromley Wharton. Secretary
of the State Board of Public Charities
and Robert j. Cunningham, State
Highway Commissioner.
Governor Brumbaugh has sent the
following letter to each of those de-
partment officials as the first step in
forming the States Safety Organiza-
tion
LAS you are probably aware the.
number of accidents resulting in in
juries to workers in Pennsylvania is
appalling. 1t unquestionably behooves
every governmental official to use
every effort and influence to aid in
reducing this tremendous loss.
The consensus of opinion, express
ed by leaders of industry, heads of
great labor organizations and govern
ment officials, attending the Industrial
Accident Prevention c II f e + e n C e
which l called in Harrisburg March
%, was that every employer should
develop in his works an efficient safety
organization headed by the chief ad-
ministrating officer and including rep
resentatives from the employees. The.
thought was formally expressed in
resolutions adopted by the members
cf the conference.
Since this safety plan was so un-
animously endorsed by these practical
men OF large affairs ] feel that It is
my duty, as the chief official of ad-
ministration of our State organization,
to follow the thought of that meeting
and have the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania set an example for the
industrial world by organizing a safety
organization within the departments.
The first step in this activity as /
conceive 1t, is to name the heads of
the various departments who can be
OF particular service in this work and
aid me as an advisory safety COM
mittee / therefore, now appoint you
a member of such committee. Asso-
ciated with you will be the State Off
cials named on the list accompany
ing this letter.
The steps to follow this preliminary
one can be taken up at the meeting
of the advisory committee, but II
merely suggest tentatively that you
will probably desire as your second
step to name a thoroughly equipped
working committee OF experts at
tached to the department of the State
to handle the details of the safety
work throughout the State institutions
and organizations.
"A third step may be the creation
of suitable local safety organizations
for each individual institution or or
ganization working in conjunction
with central organization in Harris
burg.
II hope that you will accept this ap-
pointment and give the work as much
of your time as you can possibly de-
vote to it by reason of its serious i'm
Dortance."