Draft Code On Dust Held Incredible

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31049, 3 May 1966, Page 1

Draft Code On Dust Held Incredible

(From Our Own Reporter) HANMER SPRINGS, May 2. “I have never been so frightened in my life than this morning when I read a draft code of practice for minimising the combustible dust hazard in the plastics industry,” said the president of the New Zealand Plastics Industrial Union of Employers (Mr J. D. Bull) here today. He was addressing the employers’ union’s meeting. .

Mr Bull said it seemed to him that the code was “just incredible.” He thought thai this was not just a matter foi the plastics industry but fOi a lot of other industries as well. The feeling of the employ ers’ union’s national execu tive, he said, was that this issue must be thought through on the plastics industry’s be half, and other industries’ as well, by the Manufacturers' Federation. k . The employers’ union’s executive officer (Mr B. R. Burton) told the meeting that the draft code had been

o drawn up by the Labour Deit partment in consulation with l the D.S.I.R. as an implemen--1 tation of one of the recom>r mendations of the Commisir sion of Inquiry into the tiagic is explosion and fire in a Masterton plastics factory in y- April, 1965, when several ife workers were killed. is Mr K. E. Fletcher said h that if one more life was lost s- in this industry some of those is present would not have any s’ rest. “We must treat this very c- carefully,” he said. r- The subject was left in the it hands of the national execun tive.