Health of the War Worker
1942-04 1942 1940s 44 pages workers, especially women and boys, in the jobs they are to do and the way to avoid danger. Some factories have a special department fitted up as a training school for their new workers, in others it is found more effective for the skilled men to train new recruits in the...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : Labour Research Department
April 1942
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/5DF9862D-78E0-476D-A478-B870E4E181C3 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/9CA63395-7437-4913-B0F9-7FD0F6839310 |
| Summary: | 1942-04
1942
1940s
44 pages
workers, especially women and boys, in the jobs they are to do and the way to avoid danger. Some factories have a special department fitted up as a training school for their new workers, in others it is found more effective for the skilled men to train new recruits in the workshop itself, with proper payment to compensate them for the earnings they lose in so doing. But in far too many factories there is no systematic training at all, either for efficient production or for safety. Any firm which is scheduled under the Essential Works Order can be required by the Ministry of Labour to introduce an adequate scheme of training for employees. So if your factory is one of those where new workers are left to learn by their mistakes (and perhaps lose a finger or two in the process) the trade union organization should insist with the management, and if necessary with the National Service Officer, that a training scheme be introduced. Safety Committees A real campaign for safety in the factories needs the co-operation of every part of the works — shop committee, management, health department as well as the factory inspector. Many works now have a safety committee, run by the trade union organization on the job, one of whose duties is to investigate any accident that takes place in the establishment, in order to get information that may be used to prevent a similar accident in the future. An even more important side of their work is the constant supervision and improvement of safety devices on all machines and the maintenance of safety precautions generally. Where they are not in existence such committees should be formed, and it will be found useful to draw the nurse or the factory doctor (when there is one) into consultation when accidents are investigated and safety inspections made. Safety committees can form the basis of a workers' own factory inspectorate — a very necessary development, whose value has been shown by experience in the Soviet Union. Factory inspecting can never be done adequately by the very occasional visits an inspector can pay to any one establishment to-day. Even the best factory inspector cannot always be "on the doorstep," for each one has to cover, on an average, about a thousand establishments a year. Judging by an article that recently appeared in "Industrial 15
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