The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-03-26

Totals
Total number of injured men 11,S07
Total number of work days
lost AS, $50
AT an average rate of
$500 per day. .....$ 50, 16S, 1870. 90
| Total amount awarded
to injured workmen
for time loss .... 59O,54o.SO
Average amount award
ed per man .... 57452
Amount lost in wages 2,16S51S0.O0
Amount awarded for
| loss of time ...... $50, 549.30
Recoverable loss in
wages to workmenS1,577 $50. 90
Total amount awarded to
worImen for perma-
nent partial impair
ment of earning power SS6.T50. 90
No estimate is given on total wage
loss from noncompensatable cases.
The above table alone, should be
a very convincing argument to win
over every employer and workman
as a good booster for accident pre-
vention work.
In order for a safety movement to
succeed, the management of an es-
Establishment must give it a dignified
place in their shop organization.
This is taken to mean that the en-
ployer must show by visible signs
such as adequate safeguarding and
by other evidences of conscientious
lendeavor, that he is doing all that
lilies within his power to conserve
the life and limb of his workmen
The above suggestion is not only
extensively elaborated on, but
brought very forcibly to the atten-
ton of the owner of an establish
ment in the educational safety
standards under the caption Of
appeal to the Management" in the
following language:
"An efficient safety organization
must have its inception at the top
or with the management"
The management must do its
part, and the part of the manage
ment is to Put Safety on the Map"
give it a dignified place in plant
rganization-get back of 1t and
keep back of it so actively that ev-
cry foreman and every workman
will know what the company pro-
poses to do to help make the work
ing conditions of its employees
safe.
10 is especially important that
the manager educate his superin-
tendents and foremen to believe in
safety just as he educates them to
believe in production, and to give it
their whole-hearted and intelligent
cooperation.
When the management has de-
clared Accident Prevention to be
the order of the day in any estab-
lishment, the foreman becomes the
prime factor in the success of the
movement. Everything depends
upon the spirit with which he en-
tiers upon his work; the care he
takes to instruct and encourage in
spectors and committeeman; the
courtesy with which he treats sug-
gestions made to him. If the fore
man is honest and careful in the
consideration of the problems pre-
sented to him, if he takes pains to
explain his position and that of the
whenever he meets
with a suggestion that is not prac-
teal. he will inspire the confidence
of his workmen and encourage
them to increase their activities in
the work of Accident Prevention.
The Safety Act places upon the
employer the responsibility of or
ganizing, maintaining and enforc-
ing educational standards in such a
manner as to make obvious that the
following requirements will be
mart of the employers responsible
ity:
(a) To have charge and gem
eraI supervision of safety work
within the establishment.
(b) Assemble available infor-
nation concerning accident proven
ton. outline and assist in the edu-
cational work and suggest subjects
for safety bulletins, and in every
practicable way to keep the SAFETY
idea before the employees.
fcl TO pass on all recommended !