TRAINING IN SAFETY

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30469, 17 June 1964, Page 16

TRAINING IN SAFETY

Programme Accelerated

The National Safety Association had trained nearly 400 executives and supervisors this year in an accelerated programme, said the association’s president (Mr I. Matheson) at the quarterly council meeting in Christchurch yesterday. The council had not met before in Christchurch. Mr Matheson said that one course held this year was for women executives and industrial nurses. ■

The course, lasting three days, he said, was the first wholly women's course in the Commonwealth. The results had created interest overseas., Mr Matheson said the council would meet in Dunedin on September 17 for its next quarterly meeting. This meeting would be timed to coincide with National Safety Week. It would be run in a similar way to last year and would be opened by a national radio broadcast.

New posters had been produced and other media would be used to bring about an awareness to employers and workers of the necessity to work safely. Mr Matheson said that apart from the hardship involved, the total cost of accidents in industry in New Zealand was now nearly £l5 million a year.

“Our country cannot afford this waste,” said Mr Mathesbn. “This is why we have accelerated training programmes.”

Ten members of the safety council yesterday visited the University of Canterbury Industrial Development Department to see both a demonstration of safety helmets and research work on them. The association's secretary. Mr G. Wearing, said it was aimed to produce a New Zealand standard safety helmet which would give protection from side-swipes, such a? those that sometimes occurred to men working in bush.