Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-29
FATIGUE AND
ACCIDENTS IN
CLOSE RELATION

Boston, sept. ZS.-Ine problem Oh
fatigue and of safety bear a peculiar
relation to one another, for fatigue
causes accidents and fear of acct
dents causes fatigue, Mrs. Lillian NJ.
Gilbreth, of Montclair, n. Y, told
the Women in Industry section of
the National Safety Council congress
here.
1.-The first step in fatigue study is
the survey of present existing con-
ditions," Mrs. Gilbreth said. THE ia
tigue survey makes a most conven-
lent form and outline for Analysing,
reviewing and improving the acct
dent causing conditions as well as
the motion study conditions. 1t can
be started in any organization in
stantly. 1t forms an outline for a
method of attack, and it offers ba-
sis for inter changeable data in or
CARNATIONS doing entirely different
kinds of work
The Suggestion System, that
exists today in so many plants may
well 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 q definite
concrete interest in both subjects.
and investigation into the theories
and a first hand, intimate, contact
with the practice. The Importance
of the Suggestion System as a vehi-
Gle for stimulating thought has sell
dom been realized, even by many of
its enthusiastic users.
THE Home Reading Box may be
used as a medium for circulating lit
erature on safety as we'll as fatigue
We are continually surprised to find
ready readers not only for the news
and fiction magazines, but also for
other literature that has to do with
plant organization, operation and
betterment. Through the Home
Reading Box, the homes are reach
ed.
THE Museum idea has already
been started, and is progressing rap
idly, in both safety and fatigue
work. This covers not only a ma
tional museum, but a museum in
every plant and organization if it is
no more than book of photographs,
to arouse and focalize interest.
The Information Bureau may be
used as such a museum, until space
and interest for real museum can
be provided
1T 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
available to all members of an or
ganization. They are non-controver-
slal activities in which ull can COOP
crate. Both fatigue and safety are
non-controversial subjects. Work
along both these lines is useful not
only in itself but as furnishing n field
where all may practice cooperation,
to be later carried into other, per-
maps controversial, activities.
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 we'll as a
fatigue prevention aspect
Unnecessary noise is an evil to be
combatted. The importance of
proper lighting is often under esti-
mated
White paint and white walls
everywhere should be not only slo-
gan but law. Paint the color of
PURGE of pea soup, so popular in sew
eral large and prominent factories, in
America, would be covered with
white paint Immediately, if the
managers had actual tests made of
the fatigue caused to indoor workers
by lack of maximum indirect sun
light. The belief in neutral tones
of interior paint is founded on a ia
tigue amateurs guess, not on the re-
suits 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; automaticity
firmly established habit, may be-
come deXterity and finally skill AS
far as possible, useless, inefficient and
i'll directed motions should be dis
carded, and the sequence of necessary
motions is determined, so that the
body can perform these with least
effort, least fatigue and largest re-
sulting wages. When these motions
are performed with such dexterity