Accident Prevention Campaign Getting Results

Extracts hom address by Derby Bendorf, president of the California Lumbermen's Accid ent Prevention Association at the recent Redwood Region Logging Congress.

"Your Accident Prevention Association has only one purpose and that is to provide its member companies with accurate information regarding the causes of accidents in this industry in order that we, ourselves, can do something about removing the causes. We approach the problem in what we believe is the only practical way. We do not believe it is a job for anyone but ourselves to put our house in order' We do not believe that accident causes cin be effectively legislated or policed out of existence, nor do we believe that the shopworn practice of giving lip and eye service to accident problems through the medium of safety first slogans and the plastering of safety posters and danger signs all over our operations is going to play any great part in the removal of the causes of accidents within the logging and lumber industrv.

"\Me do believe that before we can take our place as one of the least hazardous of all industries, we are going to have to get down to fundamentals. We are going to have to bring the responsibility for accident prevention down to the direct supervisory and workers'level, accept it as an every day job level responsibility, with top management giving the matter the same close attention and scrutiny given any other production problem.

"In any accident prevention campaign it is of utmost importance to have the facts constantly before us. Our Association is prepared to supplement the facts you have,regarding your

New Redwood Mill

American-Pacific Lumber Co. started operation of their nerv redwood mill at Point Arena, Calif., June 10.

The mill has a capacity of 40,m0 feet in eight hours, and the cut is 90 per cent redwood, and 10 per cent fir. The company is the owner of some good timber.

M. F. Swearingen is president of the company. C. W. Wuest is general manager, in charge of production and sales.

own accident causes with those covering the entire industry. We have been analyzing causes of accidents in the industry ever since 1923.

"The California Lumbermen's Accident Prevention Association is very proud to report to you that in 1948 the accident frequency of its member companies totaling approximately 100, was l4/o lower than that of the balance of the industry outside its membership.

"It should also be interesting for your group to know that in 1948 in the logging and lumber industry a little less than 1O per cent of all accidents were from causes which might have been prevented by mechanical safeguarding. Over 90 per cent of the total involved unsafe practices and other human failures. We find that in 1948 the logging and transportation section of our industry (this includes only members of our Association) had 128.38 accidents causing injuries involving lost time per one million hours of exposure.

"Again and finally, accident prevention is a job level, every day production problem. If top management, supervisors and workers alike are made to understand this, and if each gives his whole-hearted co-operation, the logging and lumber industry can and I firmly believe will, within a few years take its proper place among the least hazardous industries in California."

J. Harold Cyr, who for the past seven years has been Puget Sound representative for Pope & Talbot, fnc., has joined the sales staff in the company's San Francisco offices.

Mr. Cyr, with an extensive background in the lumber industry, has a host of friends all along the Pacific Coast. He started with Pope & Talbot in 1934 at their Port Gamble mill and in 1936 was connected with the sales division at San Francisco, going to Seattle in 1942.

"Wonder.Kole" is o newly perfecled process to give c perfect color coql to mochine-grooved sidewoll shingles. lf cdds greoter beouty and lusler lo q home.

The increcrsing populcrity of "Wonder. Kote" CEDARWALLS meqns exlrq profit if you qre o Cedcrwcll Dealer. Write us for further detqils.

STEPHEN G. TREEMAN & GO.

WHOI.ESAIE IUMBER

t 532 Mirqmcrr Drive

Balboo, Gqlifornio Hqrbor 2024-2025

Douglcs Fir - Ponderosq qnd Sugcr Pine - Redwood

AI.I. PURPOSD DNAME SIRVICD

BUIIT.UP OR KNOCKED-DOWN

FRAMES AND INSIDE JATIBS

SAVE-A.SPACE

SLIDT]IG DOOR FRAIUTES

Wirh or Without Finish Hqrdwcrre

A Source of Supply fhe Building frade

Hos lleeded

Oak Thresholds, Interior and Exterior

Oak Stair Treads

Vertical Grain Douglas Fir Stair Treads

Write or Coll for Complele Frome Cotologue

MacD()UGAtt D00R AND FRAME C0.

IOIOO S. Alqmeda Street tOS ANGEIES 2. CALIF. LOroin 6-3166

Stair Parts ToYour Details and Specifications

l.

4i

e,"ilfiao

& Son

WOOD PRODUCTS STAIR BUILDERS

350 Treat Ave., San Francisco 10 HEmlock 1-8111

A. K. TI/ILSON LUMBER CO.

Producen, Manufacturers and Wholesale Distdbutorc o[

REDWOOD-DOUGLAS FIR

Wholesole Yord tlills qr

Portlqnd, Oregon

Sqmoq, Gcrlif.

S. V\f. Corner Del Amo snd Alomedq Blvds. Dominguez Junclion - Compton, Colif.

Phones NEwmqrk l-8651

NEvodq 6-2953