Health of the War Worker
1942-04 1942 1940s 44 pages food and thus hasten their cure and return to work). At the same time, arrangements should be made in the factories to employ workers on their return after T.B. treatment on part-time or light work (a system which is everywhere practised in the U.S.S.R.).* Similar change...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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London : Labour Research Department
April 1942
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food and thus hasten their cure and return to work). At the same time, arrangements should be made in the factories to employ workers on their return after T.B. treatment on part-time or light work (a system which is everywhere practised in the U.S.S.R.).* Similar changes need to be made in connection with the scales of Workmen's compensation. As long as the seriously sick or injured worker is treated as a pauper, workers generally will tend to fight shy of medical examination, and no doctor's advice will prevent them from staying at work while sick or coming back to work before they are well. Health Records One of the most necessary jobs of a health department is the keeping of proper records of time lost through sickness and the kind of sickness concerned. Such records are not compulsory by law, but they are very valuable in helping doctors, workers, and factory inspectors to spot unhealthy and dangerous processes, including those which are not at present officially classed as dangerous, and to take steps to deal with the causes. Proper records, made available to the shop stewards' committee as well as the health department, are second in importance only to proper records of output when we are planning for maximum production. If record-keeping were made compulsory on a national scale, it would greatly assist the drive to root out absenteeism and ill-health in the factories. You cannot plan health without recording ill-health. 7. HOW WORKERS CAN TACKLE HEALTH PROBLEMS The improvement of health and safety conditions in industry can only be secured through the initiative and persistence of the trade union movement as a whole. Shop Stewards and trade union representatives on the job itself have a key part to play. Organize for Health on the Job In the factory or on the job, it is the responsibility of the shop stewards' committee, the trade union representatives on a produc- *For details of a practicable scheme, see "The War, Tuberculosis, and the Workers" (Socialist Medical Association, 1940, price 6d.). 35
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