The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-09-30
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manent safety work, If this section
will lead the way.
Suppose that this section was
able to rally In each state to work
Of Industrial and public safety ali
OF the great womens organized as
sociations, to persuade them to take
,up this work as permanent inter
behind the National safety council.
Properly put to them, they would
rise to It like fish to ny. 1t Is
their kind of thing.
IF this council Is going into pub
lie safety work, as l most certainly
believe 1t is its duty to do, passing
on to the public its splendid expert
ence and achievement, it Is going
to need the women. And 1t ought
to be the business Of this section
to help capture them for this enter
prise" -
Fatigue and Safety.
The problem of fatigue and Of
safety bear q peculiar relation to
cidents and fear of accidents causes
fatigue, Mrs. Lillian M. Gilbreth,
of Montclair, N. Y. told the Women
in Industry section of the National
Safety Council congress here.
"The first step in fatigue study L.
the survey of present existing con-
lions" Mrs. Gilbreth said "The
fatigue survey makes a most con-
venient form and outline for analyz-
ing, reviewing and improving the
accident causing conditions as well
as the motion study conditions. 1t
can be started in any organization
I'M fn, a
method of attack, and it offers a
basis for inter changeable data in
organizations doing entirely differ
ent kinds of work. 49,.
1.-THE Suggestion System, that ex-
lists today in SO many plants may
we'll lay emphasis on Safety and Fa-
tigue Elimination. The systematic
Incorporation OF shop kinks into
operation methods will not only bet
ter these, but will arouse a definite
concrete interest in both subjects,
and Investigation. into the theories
and first hand, intimate, contact
Of the Suggestion System as We
hicle for stimulating thought has sell
dom been realized, even by many
of its enthusiastic users.
Home Reading Box.
1.-THE Home Reading Box may be
used as medium for circulating
literature on safety as well as ia
tigue. We are continually surprised
to find ready readers not only for
the news and fiction magazines, but
also fora other literature that has to
do with plant organization, operation
and betterment. Through the Home
Reading Box, the homes are reached.
"The Museum idea has already been
CT - al Nd &C. sno a.
in both safety and fatigue work
This covers not only a national mu-
scum, but a museum in every plant
and organization II 1t is no more
than book of photographs, to arouse
and focalize interest. The Informal
ton Bureau may be used as such a
museum, until space and interest for
a real museum can be provided.
'It should be noted that all these
vehicles, the SURVEY. Suggestion
System. Home Reading Box, Mu-
scum and Information Bureau-are
activities that appeal to and, are
gani7aticn. They are nom contro-
versial activities in which all can
cooperate Both fatigue and safety
are non controversial subjects. Worl,
along both these lines is useful not
only in itself but as furnishing a
field where all NAV practice COON
GRAFTON, to be later carried into
other, perhaps controversial, activi-
ties. 4
"Rest periods, chairs for work and
rest. including chairs with springs
on legs and foot rests to remove the
effects of vibration,-these have an
accident prevention as well as fa-
tigue prevention aspect. Unnecessary
noise is an evil to be combatted. The
Importance of proper lighting Is Of
ten under estimated.
|. White = paint and white walls
everywhere should be not only a
slogan, but law. Paint the color
Of PURGE Of pea soup, so popular in
several large and pertinent factories
in America, would be covered with
white paint Immediately. if the man
ayers had actual tests made of the
fatigue caused to indoor workers by
lack of maximum indirect sunlight.
The belief in neutral tones" of in
terror paint is founded on a fatigue
amateurs guess, not on the results
of research. The relation of white
paint to possibilities of the One
Best Way to do Work is not realized
in our country.
Habit, so long considered a cruel
master, is now realized to be the
most useful of helpers; automati-
city-firnly established habit, may
become dexterity and finally skill.
AS far as possible, useless, ineffi-
cient and ill-directed motions should
be discarded, and the sequence of
necessary motions is determined.
so that the body can perform these
with least effort, least fatigue and
largest resulting wages. When
these motions are performed with
such dexterity that automaticity re-
suits. we have really efficient pro-
cess"