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Title: Official proceedings
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Railway Club of Pittsburgh
Subjects: Railway Club of Pittsburgh Railroads
Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : The Club
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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rtificates and theperson who trained the class is given an instructors cer-tificate. If an instructor teaches a class, of which 10 or moremen pass the examination given by a Bureau man, once a 1 Address Kiven before The Railway Club of PittsburKh. Pa., February 24, 1938. Pub- lished by permission of the Director, Bureau of Mines. U. S. Department of the In-terior. (Not subject to copyright.) 2 Supervising Engineer, Bureau of Mines, Safety Division, Pittsburgh, Pa. 58 year for five years, his certificate becomes permanent. Thisplan provides a number of competent first-aid instructorswho are capable of re-training employees at the mine orplant and who, by having a thorough knowledge of first aidwill be valuable in rendering first aid to injured employees,thereby reducing the severity of many accidents. It is nowfairly well accepted that first-aid training, as a part of anorganized plan, is very likely to reduce accidents; first-aid-trained employees are thought by many well-informed ex-
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Safety Car No. 3, picture taken at Pittsburgh, Pa., January 18, 1936. ecutives to be four to eight times safer than men who are notso trained. The total number trained in first-aid and mine rescuemethods by the Bureau of Mines to January .31, 1938, is1.091,617. More than three-quarters of a million differentpersons have been trained in first aid alone. Before 1931,when the appropriations of the Safety Division were dras-tically reduced, nearly 100,000 persons were trained annually. The American Petroleum Institute has taken charge offirst-aid training in at least part of the petroleum industry.In preparing to take over the training and preparatory toissuing its own first-aid certificates for instructors, the Amer- 59 ican Petroleum Institute asks applicants for certificates: (1)the amount of first-aid training received from the Bureau ofMines and when this instruction was received; (2) the num-ber of first-aid classes conducted by the applicant and thenumber of men trained by the Bure

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