THE
FOREST AROUND US |
“What we need is damn good |
voice, and he would say, “There is only one
time around in this old world, you can’t count on the next one,
so work in a safe manner, be smart, stay alive in this world.” |
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....The
forest industry of British Columbia has lost a man who contributed a great
part of his life, dedicated to a truly safer industry. He was Andy Smith,
Regional Director of Safety for the International Wood-workers of America.
Andy died shortly before Christmas, and his loss is going to be felt by
too many people who needed his homespun logic and understanding. |
trees and that garden is envied all over the world. |
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Lumberman, February, 1973 |
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others to see it was accomplished. The employers as well as the employees
in this province can be thankful for the job he has done and can feel
sorry for themselves that they are losing a real friend of industrial
safety. |
lack of training,
there must be a lack of administration, there must be some-thing we can
do to alleviate or reduce this number. ....Over one thousand men have died in logging accidents in the past twenty years in B.C. The record has not improved enough over those twenty years to allow anyone, any company or any association connected with this in-dustry to sit back and feel he or they have contributed a fair share of work toward safety. There has got to be a new and revitalized effort. There is only one way to begin that effort, from the top, the leaders. ....We are talking of human beings, log-gers, wherever they come from or whomever they work for. The man that works in one camp will quite probably work in someone else’s camp. This is |
a mutual, every
company, every indi-vidual problem. Damn good common sense is what is
needed and that can only be shown from the top when an example is set
by leaders of mana-gement and labor, to put aside their old sores from
the bargaining table, and sincerely work together for a safer forest industry. Keep out of the bight, |
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