. Bell telephone magazine . lity for his ownsafety, and (2) impress on super-visors at every level their responsi-bility for the safety of their means that to the extent towhich each member of the staff isresponsible for operations, to thesame extent is he or she responsiblefor the safety of such a department head is given ajob, the safety of every employeegoes with it. Every chief operator,commercial manager, engineer, fore-man, or group leader is responsiblefor the employees he or she super-vises. And every person has the re-sponsibility of doing his work safelyan
. Bell telephone magazine . lity for his ownsafety, and (2) impress on super-visors at every level their responsi-bility for the safety of their means that to the extent towhich each member of the staff isresponsible for operations, to thesame extent is he or she responsiblefor the safety of such a department head is given ajob, the safety of every employeegoes with it. Every chief operator,commercial manager, engineer, fore-man, or group leader is responsiblefor the employees he or she super-vises. And every person has the re-sponsibility of doing his work safelyand of doing what he can do to pro-tect himself, his fellow employees,and the public. This acceptance ofresponsibility by everyone has beenfound to be the key to improvedsafety. It is Xumber One in impor-tance. Proper Thinking—Six Murder-ous Beliefs and Others While they had not been dubbedpublic enemies or murderous be-liefs, certain concepts had beenrecognized as making the prevention 1951-52 Bell System Safety Record 111. The operation and maintenance of nezv types of plant and tools, exemplified by thhisolated radio relay tower and equipment, introduces new safety problems of accidents extremely and unneces-sarily difficult. And this was prob-ably just as true in the telephonebusiness as in most other six wrong or misleading be-liefs * are: 1. The Other Fellow Concept This is the assumption that an ac- * Taken from an address entitled Six Mur-derous Beliefs by Ned H. Dearborn, PresidentNational Safety Council, Chicago, on October6, 1947. cident may happen to the otherfellow but never to us; that we aresmarter, or luckier, than the otherfellow, and that accident victimsmust be The Your Numbers Up Con-ceptSome have the philosophy that anaccident either happens or itdoesnt: that your number is up—or it isnt. 212 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER 1950 injury rates, reporters to National Safety Council FREQUENCY RATE MA81/NG INJURIES IPER ,000 MAN-H
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