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Show CHEAPER TO PREVENT ACCIDENTS. W. H. Cameron, managing director of the National Safety Council, recently re-cently pointed out that the strength of the organized safety movement in the United States lies in the fact that "it is cheaper to prevent an accident than to pay for it." Ah a rule, we look on accident prevention pre-vention activity as being a humanitarian humani-tarian work as a saver of lives. And that, of course, is the first need. But it likewise pays for itself, time and again, in plain dollars and cents. The .safe establishment, as the records rec-ords of hundreds of great industries of all kinds can show, is the efficient and profitable one. It is the one where morale' of the workers is highest, and where they are most contented. It is the one where unit costs of production produc-tion are lowest. Every accident, no matter how small, extracts a diten-tion, diten-tion, insurance compensation. Added to this are the "hidden costs" of accidents ac-cidents which are shown to be even far greater than these apparent costs. Accident prevention, in short, is the best kind of business. It is time every industry, whether it has two employees or thousands, realized this, and realized, as well, that a large percentage of accidents are easily preventable. Industry has made a fine record in recent years in reducing reduc-ing both the frequency and severity of accidents each year should see this record bettered. |