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Show Ashley Forest Elas Established Fine Safety Record January 7, 1953 marked the end of five and one-third consecutive con-secutive years of work on the Ashley National Forest without a lost time accident, according i to Forest Supervisor Wm. D. Hurst. During this period forest ' rangers and their assistants, road I crews, fire crews, insect control crews, and workers of many types logged a total of 284,000 man hours of work without suffering suf-fering a lost time injury In the organization of the United States Forest Service this record i? exceeded only by the Alleghemy National Forest in Pennsylvania which has gone five and two-thirds two-thirds years without a lost time accident. District Forest Ranger Glen A. Lambert, of Vernal, Utah has spearheaded the accident prevention pre-vention program of the Ashley National Forest since it was initiated in-itiated in 1940. He has prepared safety plans and has followed i through to make certain the plan was being used by all workers. It has also been his duty to investigate all accidents and to make recommendations for safe working conditions on all hazardous undertakings. Under Un-der his leadership, the accident prevention program has been enthusiastically accepted and supported by all district units and by all work project leaders. The value of a well planned accident ac-cident prevention policy is instilled in-stilled by unit leaders into all forest employees regardless of their position and their acceptance accep-tance of the safety ideas largely1 determine the success of the program. Work performed on the Ashley Ash-ley National Forest durin the past five years would be classed as above average in the degree of hazards involved. During this period forest employees have suppressed 79 forest fires ranging rang-ing in size from small lightning strikes to fires covering from two to four hundred acres of forested land. They have constructed con-structed better than 30 bridges, maintained 250 miles of road annually, built several miles of new road and -maintained and bettered 1053 miles of forest trails annually. Range fence and water development construction and maintenance, telephone line maintenance, reseeding projects and working with horses accounts ac-counts for a large portion of the man hours exerted and on several sev-eral occasions during the past five years forest officers have participated in rescue missions' to help those lost or afflicted. The work of the Forest Ran- i ger, the backbone of the National Nation-al Forest organization, is . highly diversified. Upon hit; shoulders rests the responsibility for maintaining safe working conditions condi-tions for men who work under his supervision. Since most of his work is far removed from a doctor's office, he must be prepared pre-pared himself to administer first aid to injured employees and provide for their immediate and safe transportation to medical medi-cal care. Because of this need, all regular forest employees are given a first aid training course every three years. First aid kits too are kept up to date and designed de-signed to be conveniently carried car-ried by working men in the field. On the Ashley National Forest For-est accident prevention is an important consideration on every ev-ery job. The old adage, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," has paid big dividends on this unit. |