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Show THE SAFETY IDEA "The law has contributed to a certain cer-tain extent to make industry safe," said Alfred E, Smith recently, " but all regulatory statutes have a line where they stop. It is at this point that human and personal endeavor must take up the undertaking." "Human and personal endeavor, has made remarkable progress in advancing ad-vancing , safety, particularly in large Industries such as the railroad and the electric, fiut it still has a long way to go. In small manufacturing busines-i busines-i sess in many lines accident rates are i far beyond what the "normal" should, be. Industrial accidents constitute a gigantie "waste" item in our business records. This is not altogether the fault of the businesses themselves. Great steps have been taken In guarding machinery machin-ery and in making plants more safe mechanically. But the maximum safety safe-ty result from the absorption of the "accident prevention idea," by the individual indi-vidual worker. He must develop an innate in-nate conschmsness that finally becomes becom-es ii rt of his instinct, as to what is safe and what is not. The best illustration of this Is (Continued on last page) THE SAFETY IDEA (Continued From Page 1.) found in the splendid work done, In lowering the record of accidents to school children, at a time when hazards haz-ards of all kindsand accidents to adults have been steadily Increasing. The lessons taught vividly In the class room make an Indelible Impression on the child's mind, nad the safe thing to do becomes the natural thing to do. Executives and workers must cooperate coop-erate to promote Industrial safety, exactly ex-actly as authorities and motorists must cooperate if our horrible toll of highway accidents is to be held down. Safety cannot be learned In a day or month or a year It must result, over a long period of time, from continued Instruction and thought |