Page from a manual detailing works safety organisation and procedures.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 176\2\ img263 | |
| Date | 1st November 1940 guessed | |
| (b) Focusing the safety work in one man. Safety work should be centred in one individual, either whole or part-time, working in close conjunction with a committee. He should occupy a responsible position in the works, because his principal duty is to provide the driving force behind the campaign. Upon his initiative and tact its success will largely depend. His appointment does not, however, absolve members of the management or foremen from their personal responsibility for carrying out the law and for the safety of those in their charge. The safety organiser's duty is not to accept all the responsibility for preventing accidents so much as to see that others accept the responsibility that is theirs. It is hoped shortly to provide a lecture training course for whole and part-time safety organisers. Arrangements for the course will be announced in the "Industrial Safety Bulletin." (c) Safety Committees. Very few works' safety campaigns have been successful, in any but the smallest works, without the help of a safety committee to perform the vital function of letting the workers know that they have a share in the works safety movement, and of thus gaining their co-operation. Even the small works can form a useful committee of three: manager, foreman and worker. (d) Inspections and Investigations. Accidents tend to repeat themselves. Experience of what has happened before shows what may happen again. While, therefore, dangerous conditions should be sought and remedied before they cause accidents, it is particularly necessary that all accidents and "near-accidents" should be most carefully investigated and the necessary steps taken to prevent a recurrence. (e) Propaganda. Under war conditions propaganda is doubly important. The poster is an invaluable means of mass education. When properly displayed, posters can reach everyone in the works, and display is not a difficult matter to arrange. Posters, however, are not the whole of works safety propaganda. In addition, the distribution of leaflets such as those provided as part of this service, the influence of the works safety committee members, Trades Union representatives and departmental managers and foremen, the calling of shop meetings, the showing of films, the arrangement of special exhibitions, are all part of propaganda. (f) Accident Records. Records and statistics have necessarily to be kept to a minimum in war-time. Without certain records, however, it is quite impossible in any but the smallest works to judge the accident situation with a view to improving it. There are approved methods of keeping such records. In particular it is suggested that records and investigations should be based on all accidents causing loss of time beyond the day or shift on which they happen, and not merely on "reportable" accidents. The National Safety First Association can supply a form (Form E) suitable for use as a basis in tabulating accident figures. Page Six | ||
From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).