ACCIDENTS IN INDUSTRY
“Insidious Form Of Sabotage” (Wew Zealand Press Association)' AUCKLAND, February 17. Industrial Accidents, which in 1957 injured 45,490 persons, were an insidious form of sabotage to industry, the Director of the National Safety Association (Mr R. W. K. Stevens) said at the opening of the association's industrial safety course at Ardmore. To 50 North Island business representatives attending the course, Mr Stevens said: “You are the pioneers. Eventually we hope that every undertaking of any size and. consequence in New Zealand will have on its staff a person trained in accident prevention and an enthusiast for the cause.” There was ’ need in the Dominion for more .intensified and specialised instruction in the fundamentals of accident prer vention. , ' . ... In 1956, 43,600 persons weft injured at work and the time lost in that year amounted to 598,000 hours—equal to the working time of 2500 men for a whole year, Mr Stevens said. These figures showed the gravity of the problem and the effect it has upon the productive capacity of the country.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28823, 18 February 1959, Page 10
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