Show engineer corps has half the accidents of private industry the ardys corps of engineers has achieved a reduction of 45 per cent in accident frequency and 31 per cent in accident severity below that of private construction As compared with the accident rates tor for the five year period 1936 to 1840 1940 it is estimated that the engineers gi safety program during the past two fiscal years has saved more than 1000 lives averted lost time injuries and prevented the loss of man days with the saving in wages of workers amounting to regulations of the corps rigidly adhered to require that all lost time accidents on construction projects over ove r which the corps has jurisdiction be reported the statistics so gathered comprising the greatest mass of construction accident statistics and case histories ever assembled have shown what practices cause the accidents thereby enabling the engineers to take preventive measures strict code enforced when the ardys construction program was expanded in 1941 to the greatest the world has ever known specific uniform safety requirements were established by the engineers and compliance enforced in all construction st contracts outstanding among the requirements were those providing tor for mobile first aid stations central in fir maries staffed with trained nurses under the supervision of one or more fun full time physicians on all projects where a thou thousand sandor or more workers were employed the employment of a full time safety engineer on all similar projects arid and the maintenance of a first aid log at all field stations and infirmaries infirm aries the current program Is placing the most stress on the proper use of heavy construction equipment which although responsible for but 25 per cent of the total injuries causes cause sup up to 52 per cent of the time lost to in all accidents on construction projects |