Canadian foundryman (1917) . ) to have the work done safely. Pastexperience and common sense requirethis. However, the percentage of acci-dent-; from asphyxiation, break-outs, ex-plosions, or slips is very small compared with the percentage of accidents thathappen in regular daily work. Dozensof accidents are repetitions of the samecircumstances, the cause, nature, and re-sult being essentially identical. Accident prevention should be hand-led in the same way as operating diffi-culties. If il is going to cost more topay for accidents than to prevent, them,if the prospect is that every fourth,s
Canadian foundryman (1917) . ) to have the work done safely. Pastexperience and common sense requirethis. However, the percentage of acci-dent-; from asphyxiation, break-outs, ex-plosions, or slips is very small compared with the percentage of accidents thathappen in regular daily work. Dozensof accidents are repetitions of the samecircumstances, the cause, nature, and re-sult being essentially identical. Accident prevention should be hand-led in the same way as operating diffi-culties. If il is going to cost more topay for accidents than to prevent, them,if the prospect is that every fourth,sixth, or tenth man in the plant will lose20 to .!.> days work every year by ac-cident and during that time be replacedby a less skilled employee who will haveto be trained and will possibly causevexatious delays and mistakes, and ifbetter and safer working conditions at-tract better men, operating methods andinstructions should be applied to the. FIG. 2—SCRAP FILED AT FOOT OFLADDER safety problem. The same methods thathave been developed for efficiency maybe used to increase safety. Responsibility of Safety InspectorsSafety inspectors are invaluable forlooking after recommendations, investi-gating accidents, pointing out possible improvements in equipment and meth-ods, and organizing safety work, but ifthere is an inspector ;it the plant do notput the responsibility for betterment onhim. His suggestions can no more eli-minate accidents than suggestions caneliminate off-grade iron unless his re-commendations, as well as the foremens,are followed by improvements, detailed Hi CANADIAN F 0 U N D R Y M A N instructions, co-operation, and personalsupervision. Moreover, if the safely in-spector is not familiar with operatingmethods in detail, there are scores ofhazardous places and practices that hewill become familiar with only as acci-dents happen. Accident prevention i-too big a job for the safety inspectorunless he has the cord
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