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MCA Honors 4 3 0 Chemical Plants

Du Pont Allied Chemical Air Reduction Stauffer Chemical American Cyanamid Monsanto Union Carbide Canadian Industries Koppers Co. W. R. Grace Hercules Powder Olin Mathieson Procter & Gamble Food Machinery and

Chemical Pennsalt Chemicals Celanese Corp. Diamond Alkali Metal & Thermit Atlas Powder Dow National Distillers Phillips Petroleum U. S. Steel

No. Plants 79 44 35 31 24 23 19 17 14 13 12 12 12

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Harshaw Chemical Pittsburgli Coke and

Chemical Continental Oil B. F . Goodrich Chemical Merck National Lead National Starch Products Toms River-Cincinnati

Chemical Victor Chemical Cowlès Chemical Detrex ChemicQ! In^ 's t r ies Detroit Chemical Works Escambia Chemical Hcudry Process International Minerals &

Chemical Lever Brothers Patents Chemicals Royce Chemical Shell Chemical Wyandotte Chemicals

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The Manufacturing Chemists' Association has awarded Certificates of Achievement to 430 chemical plants that operated without a disabling injury during 1958. Only 397 plants won certificates for similar records in 1957. I n honoring the plants, MCA said the chemical industry is one of the safest in the country. I t averaged 2.98 injuries per million man-hours worked last year, well below the average for all-industry. To qualify for an MCA certificate, a plant or laboratory must work at least 20,000 man-hours without injury during a year. Among this year's win­ners, 32 plants worked more than a million man-hours without a disablinc" injury, and 38 worked over 500,000 injury-free man-hours.

Is He Accident-Prone? Wise guys and bumblers cause accidents, says an NYU psychologist

A K E SOME WORKERS ACCIDENT-PRONE?

Safety experts do not know for sure, mainly because there is no reliable way to spot these people before they are hired. But the designers of a new test say they can do just that—identify in advance the kind of worker most likely to cause repeated injury to himself and others. Their test is proposed as a

guide to management in hiring and in prescribing the amount of safety train­ing needed by each worker. Some 17 years of research lie behind the pro­cedure.

Thomas N. Jenkins, New York Uni­versity psychologist, devised the "pio­neer test to reduce job accidents." His researchers gave the test to 465 pairs of "safe" and "nonsafe" workers to prove its validity as an "accident-prone" indicator. Each pair of workers tested was doing the same job. But one had an accident-free history, while thejpther had suffered more than the usual num­ber of injuries on the job. Medical and

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safety directors of the 68 U. S. and Canadian companies in the survey chose the workers for the experiment.

Included in the test research were workers in chemicals, steel, textiles, pa­per, transportation, machinery, aircraft, utilities, meat processing, dairies, baker­ies, foundries, post offices, and nuclear operations. About 10% of tbe compa­nies in the survey operate in chemicals and related fields, according to Jenkins.

The final test, now offered to indus­try, consists of 150 questions. It takes 20 minutes to complete and fits easily into routine job screening procedures, says the author. Questions are set up with multichoice answers. For ex­ample, in replying to the question "Do you like to be alone?" workers could mark, "Always," "Sometimes," "Hardly ever," or "Never."

Resiilts of the Jenkins test are ex­pressed as a safety index. This de­scribes a "good risk' as one who will al­most never have an accident. A "poor risk," on the other hand, should be kept away from all hazards. Those whose safety indexes lie between the good and poor risks may be trained in safe work­ing habits to keep accidents at a mini­mum.

Poor risks, according to Jenkins, are either "bumblers" or "wise guys." They are less prudent, easily distracted, dis­inclined to accept rules, less affected by the feelings or actions of others, self-as­sured and aggressive, and self-assertive toward others*

Executive Assets, Inc., of New York City, which handles the test for Jen­kins, says spotting workers who can best accept training in safety will help indus­try save on operating costs. The bill to industry for losses from accident-caused personal injury and property damage, the firm estimates, runs about $8 billion a year.

• National Safety Council has voted Public Interest Citations to a number of chemical industry magazines for 1958— CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING N E W S ,

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• The International Atomic Energy Agency has appointed* two panels of experts to work out problems related to moving radioactive materials safely by air, water, and land. One group is studying radioisotopes and ores and residues of low activity and tlie other, highly radioactive materials such as fuel elements and concentrated wastes. Their objectives: To recommend safety regulations that can be applied uni­formly by the agency's member states and international shippers and carriers.

• National Bureau of Standards ex­pects to release its NBS Handbook 69, "Maximum Permissible Amounts of Ra­dioisotopes in the Human Body and Maximum Permissible Concentrations in Air and Water," in about two months. This is the work of K. Z. Morgan's Sub­committee 2 of the National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measure­ments. Its previous full report, NBS Handbook 52, was published in 1953.

Literature . . . • National Safety Congress Transac­tions—Chemical Industries. Vol. 5, 1958. National Safety Council, Chi­cago 11, 111., 65 cents.

• Bull. SD-73 , Tolylene Diiso>cyanafe. Describes hazards related to the use of this chemical and gives precautionary measures needed to protect workers. Manufacturing Chemists' Association, 1825 Connecticut Ave., N .W. , Wash­ington 9, D. C , 30 cents.

• Standardizat ion—What's i n It for Me? Papers from the chemical and pe­troleum industries on safety-labeling standards for hazardous siibstances. American Standards Association, 70 East 45th St., New York 17, Ν. Υ., $4.50.

• Good Plant Practice for Workers Us­ing Petroleum Products. Emphasizes ways to prevent adverse skin effects in industrial plants. A wall card on the same subject lists the "do's and don'ts" of personal hygiene. American Petro­leum Institute, 50 West 50th St., New York 20, Ν. Υ. Booklet, 18 cents; wall card, 15 cents. Discounts on bulk or­ders.

• Fire Control Film List. More than 200 films on fire safety, industrial fire protection, aviation fire control, forest, brush, and grass fire fighting, fire de-

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partment operations, and civil defense. National Fire Protection Association, Boston 10, Mass., 50 cents.

• Nitroparaffins and their hazards. Research Report No . 12, National Board of Fi re Underwriters, New York, N . Y. S I

• Guide to Fire Extinguishers. Com­pares various types. Ansul Chemical Co., Marinette, Wis. S 2

N e w Products · . . • Research safe ty cab ine t . Protects against infectious microorganisms, toxic chemicals, contaminated animals, and radioactive materials. S. Blickman, Inc., Weehawken, N. J. S 3

• Glove b o x . Especially designed for plutonium work, has new visibility and safety features. S. Blickman, Inc., Weehawken , N. J. S 4

• Gas detector . Gives accurate, on-the-spot determinations of gas and vapor concentrations. Union Industrial Equipment , Port Chester, N. Y. S 5

• Emergency suit. Protects against acid and vapor, can b e used with any type of self-contained breathing ap­paratus . Union Industrial Equipment Corp. , Port Chester, N . Y. S 6

ρ· JVîôiïîrï-îô-ÎïïMSîv reSwSciiXstor. Exten­sion of the approved mouth-to-mouth technique of artificial respiration. Globe Industries, Dayton, Ohio. S 7

• Radiat ion monitoring service. Gives exposures for one week and cumulative totals for the past 13 weeks and calen­dar year to date. R. S. Landauer, Jr., & Co., Matteson, 111. S 8

• Heat- res is tant garments . Made of new aluminized material to protect wearer against high radiant heat. Frommelt Industries, Dubuque, Iowa.

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• Eye-bath bottles. Easily accessible for treating chemical burns. Advance Glove Mfg. Co., Detroit, Mich. S 10

• Folding stretcher. Made of alu­minum tubing and nylon, supports over 400 pounds. Medical Supply Co., Rockford, 111. S 11

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