"SAFETY FIRST."

Auckland Star, Volume LVXIII, Issue 53, 4 March 1937, Page 21

"SAFETY FIRST."

JOHANNESBURG MOXTAUTT. JOHNNESBURG, January 30." The "Safety First" movement on the Witwatersrand was started many years ago and its activities have resulted in a remarkable reduction in the accident and niortality rates on the gold mines. Latest statistics published show that the death-rate from accidents for the first ten months of 1936 amounts to 2.10 per 1000, the average number* of employees Delnjr -921,94). With nearly 69,000 fewer employees in 198$ the fatal accident' rate was 2.35 per 1000; in 1934 the rate was 2.11, while in 1935 the low record of 2.02 per 1000 for nearly 300.W0 employees was , achieved.