The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-29
WORKING CONDITIONS BUREAU.


The Division of Labor Administration will
deal with the attitude and policies of the man
agement toward the employed and the personal
relations between employers and employed. 1t
is now generally conceded that tn management
in production has greater duty than supplying
buildings, materials, tools, and hiring and dis
charging workers. Once the principles are es-
tablished that there is money value to the man
agement>in longtime service in maintaining
such relations with employees that they are will
ing to continue in service of company, and that
placing each worker where he do his best
work the management becomes interested in in
dustrial safety and sanitation and in the prin-
Piles of labor administration, or what is COM
lonly known employment management.
here have been approaches to the study of la
or administration, known variously as time
udies, scientific management, fatigue studies,
otion studies, industrial auditing, etc. 1t has
zen demonstrated that proper methods of labor
ADMINISTRATION result in increased production and
creased cost. Reducing the labor turnover
decreases cost of production. 1t is the purpose
Of the Working CondiEons Service to cooperate
with these other agencies and to supplement
their work by seeking to organize this develop
ing science and to secure for all elements con-
cerned representation in the determination of
policies and principles. Later administration as
duction problem, modified by the fact that it
deals also with human labor power, which is in
separable from human life. It is evident that
in addition to the production phases, it must
take into consideration all of those human i'm
pulses and motives which make up the indi-
vidual and his desire for progressive self-devel-
opment. While labor administration will profit
by the valuable in scientific management and
efficiency methods, twill seek to avoid over-em-
phaszing RECOMMENDATION and will endeavor to
make it's primary objective, so far the work
ers are concerned, the development of Individual
initiative
The Division of Safety Engineering completes
the structure of the Working Conditions Service.
Standards for mechanical safety have been more
adequately worked out than standards for sani-
tation and industrial hygiene. Accidents startle
and quicken sympathy They obviously
traceable to working conditions AS result,
compensation legislation has put economic pres
sure behind efforts to prevent industrial acct |
dents than to pay compensation AS accident |
losses were made legitimate burdens upon indus
try arrangements became interested in estab- |
fishing safe processes. There are now in nearly |
all of the States of the Union safety codes and
agencies charged with the establishment and
maintenance of industrial safety. Supplement-
ing Government agencies, the great energizing /
forces in this field have been the National Safety
Council and various technical societies. The
policy of the Working Conditions Service is to
avoid duplication of work and activity and, by +
acting as a coordinating agency, to cooperate
with the forces already in the field to bring Fed
eral directing impetus in the national campaign
for uniformity of safety standards, practices,
and equipment, standardization of safety organ
TONS and for the collection of data necessary
for the continuous modification of standards to
meet new conditions. The Bureau of Standards
has offered its cooperation in the formulation of
codes. The assistance of the National Safety
Council will be invaluable in securing the prac-
tical application of safety standards and prac-
tees. The Council has agreed to cooperate with
the Working Conditions Service and appointed a !
committee of five for consultation and advice.
The codes which are to be worked out under the
Division of Safety Engineering will be the result
of experience and experimentation, consultation
with technical organizations, and conferences IL