The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-03-19

ence. The State Safety Board has
published a sufficient number Of
these safety codes to furnish each
establishment and each workman
employed therein with a copy of
these standards which are now in
the process of distribution.
The Safety Act is based upon the
principles of merit reward or a
penalty assessment applicable to
each and every establishment con-
tributing to and classified under
the Industrial Insurance Act that
continuously complies or does not
continuously comply with the stan
dards Of safety as adopted and
promulgated by the State Safety
Board, as follows:
CD A safe place to work, to be
termed Safe Place Standards"
CD To make machinery, APP
paratus and appliances safe to work
with, to be termed Safety Device
Standards
CD To educate and train en-
ployer and workmen to avoid
danger and appreciate the advant-
ages of compliance with the prin-
ciple of the Safe Place CD and
Safety Device (2) provision of the
Safety Act, to be termed THE Edu-
cational Standards"
It is also predicated on the prin-
ciple of holding the employer of an
establishment responsible for the
inauguration and maintenance in
his plant, of Saft Place, Safety De-
vices and Educational Standards.
BY continuous compliance with
the above three provisions of the
act, the owner of an establishment
may obtain merit reward of 20
per cent as credit against his as
sessment to his class accident fund
on the books of the Industrial In
surance Commission for the cal
endar year of continuous certifica-
ton, and the failure to comply
with the above three provisions will
cause an establishment to have a
penalty assessed against it Of
| 20 per cent of the amount con-
tributed to its class accident fund
for the year certified added to the
assessment for the year following
for non noncompliance with the above
provisions.
Inspectors representing the COM
bined Safety and Labor Bureau De-
partments of the State will en-
deavor to visit the different estab-
| lishments, and so far as possible
assist in the inauguration of the
safety work in accord with the pro-
visions of Safety Code Nos. / and
2, and the State Board most cordi-
| ally invites and expects your hearty
cooperation with it and this de-
partment in this work. However,
the field force of the State De-
partment is limited to such an ex-
tent that it will make it physically
impossible for them to visit every
establishment in the State within
reasonable period of time. That
being the case, it is recommended
that each establishment immedi-
ately proceed with the safeguard
ing of its plant and with the for
nation of its safety organizations
in accordance with the provisions
Of Codes Nos. / and 2 without any
further delay or instructions from
the field force
These standards of safety were
adopted to take effect on January
/, 1920, and the certification there
on under the law will be for the
calendar year Of 1920.
The State Safety Board has es-
tablished three district local aid
boards at Seattle, Tacoma and Spo-
kane, under whom is employed and
conveniently situated at branch
offices in the most centrally To-
Gated places, a number OF field as
sistants who will be ready at all
times to serve and assist the in
dustries in their safety work. sub
ject to the supervision of the State
Safety Board.
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