The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-11-23

nance plants. A field force of specialists
in industrial hygiene, sanitation, safety
and production engineering, technically
trained and of broad practical experience.
has been organized which will be under
the supervision of Bernard j. Newman
This inspection force will necessarily de-
velop data which will be exceedingly val
liable to the working conditions service
and to the bureau of standards in the
formulation of codes, and will not only
give manufacturers expert service in
ways that will help to increase prodnc-
ton, but will safeguard the workers from
dangerous health hazards and ovcupa-
tional injuries.
The division of labor administration
will deal with the attitude and policies
of the management toward the employed
and the personal relations between en-
ployers and employed. II is now gen
orally conceded that the management in
production has greater duty than sup
plying buildings, materials, tools and
hiring and discharging workers. Once
the principles are established that there
| is money value to the management IN
| long time service, in maintaining such
relations with employees that they are
willing 10 continue in service OF a com
pany, and that placing each worker
where he can do his best work, the man
agement becomes interested in industrial
safety and sanitation and in the prin-
ciples of labor administration, or what IS
commonly known as employment man
agement There have been approaches to
the study Of labor administration, known
- ef,tHfac ifir N
agement, fatigue studies, motion studies,
industrial auditing, etc. II has been
demonstrated that proper methods OF ia.
Dor administration result in increased
production and decreased cost. Reducing
the labor turnoer decreases cost of pro-
duction. The chief of this section will
be DIR. William NJ Leiserson of Toledo,
10. There are already other federal agen-
cies operating in this field 1t is the pur-
pose of the working conditions service to
cooperate with these ser agencies and
to supplement their work by seeking to
organize this developing science and to
secure for all elements concerned repre-
sentation in the determination of pol
| ieies and principles Labor administra-
| ton as furthered by this service is an en-
gineering production problem, modified
| by the fact that it deals also with hui
man labor power, which is inseparable
| from human life. 1t is evident that in
addition to the production phases, it
must take into consideration all of those
human impulses and motives which make
up the individual and his desire for pro-
gressive acknowledgment. While labor
administration will profit by the valuable
in scientific management and efficiency
methods, it will seek to avoid overem-
lphasizing RECOMMENDATION and will endeav-
or to make its primary objective, so far
as the workers are concerned, the devel-
opment Of individual initiative.
The division OF safety engineering com
pletes the structure of the working con-
ditions service. Standards for mechan-
cal safety have been more adequately
worked out than standards for sanitation
and industrial hygiene Accidents star
tie and quicken sympathy. They are OBJ
viously traceable to working conditions.
As a result, compensation legislation has
put economic pressure behind efforts to
prevent industrial accidents by making
! it more economical for employers TO pre-
vent industrial accidents than to pay
compensation. As accident losses were
made legitimate burdens upon industry,
arrangements became interested in estab-
Fishing safe processes There are now in
nearly all of the states of the union safe