“SAFETY FIRST" IN INDUSTRY

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 46, 18 November 1929, Page 10

“SAFETY FIRST" IN INDUSTRY

BRITISH CAMPAIGN i Dominion Special Service. London, October 3. The National Safety First Association is planning for the coming year an intensive campaign. The association is interested in industrial as well as road accidents, and for the first time its industrial safety congress will take place next month outside London —at Sheffield. Mr. Alfred Short, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Home Office, will open the congress, and the discussions will turn on the attitude of trade unions towards accident prevention, safety work in factories, and the organisation and work of local area committees. The association’s road safety congress this year will take the form of a special session at the Public Works, Roads, and Transport Congress and Exhibition at the Royal Agricultural Hall, in November, when consideration will be given to the relations of local authorities with the Safety First movement. Within the next few months it is the intention of the association to concentrate upon a number of outstanding industrial hazards, and to produce a series of leaflets that.it is hoped will be closely read in hundreds of thousands of homes. It is intended also to issue for 1930 two booklets for motor drivers, one designed for the experienced driver and the other for the man taking out a driving license for the first time. For three years past booklets prepared by the association and receiving the approval of the Ministry of Transport have been Issued to motorists with their driving licenses, and for the current year the number of these booklets sent out has numbered nearly 2,750,000. It will be a new departure to issue volumes of admirably compiled advice and warnings for drivers in two distinct categories. It is hoped that another development will be in the direction of securing the compilation of complete analyses of the causes of fatal motor accildents. For three years the association has compiled such an analysis based on the months of June and July only. This summer the analysis is being prepared upon a six months’ basis, but the Royal Commission on Transport has recommended that the work should be taken over on a comprehensive scale by the Ministry of Transport.