| Show Utah Nevada Safety 2 Unit Inc Incorporates Idaho at s. s SL L. L Meeting I Group Votes to Support Campaigns S Of State Traffic Council To Reduce Accidents on Highways t S The Utah-Nevada Utah Safety society added the state of Idaho to 4 its scope of service Friday at its fourte fourteenth nth annual conference at the Newhouse hotel in Salt Lake City making the organizations organization's organizations organization's organizations organization's tion's new name the Utah-Nevada-Idaho Utah Safety society Although unanimous the motion came as ast asta a surprise move by J. J F. F 1 Jack Coombs Coombs society secretary just before the conference delegates delegates dele dele- j gates completed their morning session session ses sea J sion slon and adjourned for an informal J lun luncheon heon The Th society also voted to support t as a group the Utah Traffic Safety councils council's efforts to reduce traffic Ii j accidents on the states state's streets and highways j. j Secretary Asks Help This action was taken after a a. talk by Herbert B. B Simpson secretary sec see of the state state traffic safety 1 council in which he asked the t industrial safety leaders attending attending attend attend- ing the conference to to- enlist yourselves yourselves yourselves your your- selves and the men associated with 1 you In traffic safety Mr J Simpson said that the off job accidents cost Industry as 1 much as the on-the-Job accidents because because be be- cause of the time lost in recuperating recuperating aUng from Injuries or In training replacements He said one of the tho greatest the off-the-job accident factors factors factors fac fac- I tors was traffic mishaps S Mr Simpson said industrial leaders leaders leaders lead lead- ers had proved safety can be made to work because they have cut t the industrial accident death toll Ii 40 per cent in the last 25 years Ii Traffic safety efforts he added were being patterned after Industrial Industrial Indus- Indus trial safety plans Drunken driving he told the j delegates was one of the worst elements traffic safety officials were up against In 1940 he said 1 60 per cent of the drivers Involved involved involved in- in in fatal Utah traffic accidents accidents accidents acci- acci dents in the first half of the year 1 I were found to have been drinking f 1 Another speaker was H H. W. W Oddie Oddie Od- Od j die supervisor of construction and installation results for the Mountain Moun- Moun j. j tam ain tain States Telephone and Tele Tel Telegraph graph company who discussed discussed in iri n dustral safety and illustrated d his i T talk 1 with an accident demo 7 stra stra rl tion board to show how accidents accident occurred 1 Suggests Slogan 5 A good slogan for tor Industrial safety engineers to adopt he said i i is one now in use by the Bell 1 tern No tern No job is so Important and no message so urgent that we cannot take time to do our work safely He suggested education of to recognize hazardous hazard- hazard ous conditions as a prime means of avoiding industrial accidents Captain Mickey Collins drillmaster drillmaster drill- drill j master of the Salt Lake City fire department R. R R. R Knill Rock RockSprings RockSprings Springs Wyo safety engineer for forthe forthe the Union Pacific Coal company and H. H B. B Humphries San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran- Fran cisco Cal CaI safety engineer for the U. U S. S bureau of mines were other Friday speakers Concluding event Friday will be a stag party in inthe the hotel at 8 p. p m. m Saturdays Saturday's events Include a first first aid competition among 15 picked teams at the Gemmell club in Bingham luncheon at the clubhouse clubhouse clubhouse club club- house and a dinner at 8 S p. p m. m in inthe inthe the Newhouse hotel said George French society president I Prizes for winning aid teams j jwill will be awarded at the dinner dinnet Among the speakers will be Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- I tenant Colonel Elmer G. G Thomas Utah army construction quartermaster quarter- quarter quartermaster c master and I. I G. G Denver Denver Denver Den- Den ver Colo Cob master mechanic for forthe M the Denver Rio Grande Western West- West fj em ern Railroad company Hamilton G. G Park the Senator from Sandpit Sandpit Sandpit Sand- Sand J pit will be master of ceremonies s. s |
