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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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oolsand equipment peculiar to our in-dustry. An effective safety leadership inall levels of supervision. One of the first steps in our safetyprogram is to try to anticipate anyjob dangers that exist. This is ac-complished through the written de-tailing of almost every mechanicaljob we do, so that hazards of the jobare exposed and avoided. When wegive men and women employment,we feel they have a right to expect 240 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER US to point out any hazard theyrelikely to face in any operation theyreasked to perform. We also feelthey have a right to expect us totrain them to avoid hazard when itexists. We regard it as manage-ments responsibility, up and downthe line, to create in the minds ofemployees a genuine desire to worksafely. Then we try to engineer safetyinto our tools, our plant, and ourwork methods. The safety engineer-ing concept is folded into all of ouroperations and training procedures. It seems to me that theres been atendency to think of accident preven-
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Service in the River Grove^III.^centraloffice was completely restored in eleven days after it had been gutted by fire— and without one personal injury tion almost solely from a humani-tarian standpoint, with too little re-gard for its engineering aspects. Ibelieve this accounts for the slowprogress, until recent years, in acci-dent prevention in industry. Everycomplex mechanical contrivance inuse today—whether it be an auto-mobile, a telephone system, or almostanything you can name—had its be-ginning in a simple machine. Anddevelopment to its present state hasbeen possible only through the ap-plication of scientific knowledge andengineering principles as they becomeavailable through research and de-velopment. I can think of no reasonwhy scientific knowl-edge and engineeringprinciples should not besimilarly applied to ac-cident prevention. En-gineering, after all, isessentially the construc-tive use of accumulatedexperience. And so itis with accident preven-tion. The objective of

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