SAFETY IN MINES
BRITISH PRECAUTIONS " HARD HATS EFFECTIVE HEAD INJURIES REDUCED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received August 31, 6.5 p.m.) British "Wireless RUGBY, Angnst 30 The value of protective clothing in the prevention of accidents in coal mines is again a feature of the annual report of the Safety in Mines Research Board. Hard hats are being introduced . into the mines at a rate of-12 s UOO a month, and the totel brought into use in the last two years is nearly 300,000. The report states that at three collieries whero the miners aro equipped with hard hats a reduction of 78 per cent in the aggregate of head injuries, involving more than three days' loss of work has been obtained. f At one of them head injuries have been reducedby as much as 93 per cent since 1933. The board advocates the use of gloves specially designed for miners' wear, goggles and safety boots, as means of securing a similar saving of lost time through injuries to hands, eyes and feet.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22822, 1 September 1937, Page 13
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