SAFETY IN FACTORIES
(From "The Post's" Representative.) . SYDNEY, June 23. For not having accidents at work, men in a Newcastle factory get presents of cigars, soap, pencils, exercise books, or rear reflectors for <their bicycles. The most popular present is soap; the least, cigars. The system was explained at. a meeting of the Safety First Council by the safety officer of Rylands Bros.' wire factory, Newcastle. The employees were in'five groups of '200 each, he said. When a group could show 26 consecutive days without an accident, each member received his present. Continual propaganda, and bonuses, had brought down the accident rate from 194 per 1000 men in 1928, to 34 in 1938. About- half of the accidents occurred on Mondays and Tuesdays, but no satisfactory explanation had been found for this. Australian workmen were more prone to take risks than others, and safety appliances, unnecessary in England, were necessary here. "If more employers would realise that good production follows naturally when men work under safe conditions, there would be fewer accidents in Australian factbi-ies," said the chairman of the council (Major-General H. Gordon Bennett). "Many employers.' do .not treat suggestions for saifety', organisation in their factories cordially." I
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 3, 4 July 1939, Page 10
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199SAFETY IN FACTORIES Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 3, 4 July 1939, Page 10
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