INDUSTRIAL SAFETY

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30066, 26 February 1963, Page 15

INDUSTRIAL SAFETY

Exhibition To Tout' City •

A mobile industrial safety exhibition weuld open in Christchurch on JJarch S and wopld be fhown at Various places in the city and at Rangiora and Riccarton, said the district superintendent of the Labour Department (Mr C. P. Collins). The Mayor of Christchurch (Mr G. Manning) will officially open the exhibition in the Caledonian HaU at 2.30 p.m. on March 5. The president of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation (Mr R. H. Stewart) will also speak at the opening. The exhibition consists of 40 panels illustrating materials handling, good housekeeping methods in factories and workshops, safety factors in the use of ladders and hand tools, protection of the eyes, protection of the skin and means of avoiding industrial dermatitis, electrical safety measures and the industrial accidents problem in New Zealand. During the week the exhibition is at the Caledonian Hall, a model wood-work-ing factory, of 1500 square feet, will contain the safety devices and provisions requited by the Factories Act and the Machinery-Act. The mobile exhibition will be at the Caledonian Hall from March 5 to f2; at the Y.M.C.AI Hall on the corner of Greers and Wairakei roads, on March 14 and 15; the Woolston R.S.A. Hall, March 21 and 22; the Riccarton Borough Council Hall. March, 28-29, and the Christchurch Technical College assembly hall. April 1 to 5. The exhibition will be free to all visitors. Safety films will be shown in the evenings. Approximately 30 commercial firms will be displaying various types of safety equipment. Essay Competition

The exhibition was designed to appeal to all sections of the community. Mr Collins said, but it was chiefly aimed at teaching young persons the importance of industrial safety. About 4000 schoolchildren, mainly secondary school pupils, would see the exhibition in conducted parties. Officers from the Labour Department would man the exhibition. An essay competition “Satety at Work, What it will mean to Me,” would be sponsored by the National Safety Association and run in conjunction • with the exhibition. It would be open to all secondary school pupils who visited the exhibition, and would be in two sections —up to 1000 words for entrants under 15, and 1500 words for entrants 'l5 and over, Mr Collins said. .