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blacksmith's tools are inspected to see that the edges are not allowed 

 to " mushroom " until some one is struck with a flying chip ; storage 

 yards are inspected to see that material is not piled too close to the 

 tracks; planer beds are covered in the machine shops; and safety 

 cylinders provided for all jointers in carpenter shops. 



Accidents which occur are studied with a view of determining 

 means for preventing similar accidents, and a constant effort is made 

 to anticipate danger in any form before it results in an accident. 



General specifications, rules, drawings, and photographs of stand- 

 ard appliances are being compiled in a handbook, which it is in- 

 tended shall be to the safety inspector what the standard reference 

 books are to the engineer; these handbooks will be furnished to those 

 who are responsible for the design, installation, and maintenance of 

 equipment in our mills. 



NEW PLANTS. 



In erecting a new plant or in making extensions to an old one, 

 much of the machinery is bought in practically completed form from 

 outside manufacturers. When gear covers, etc., have to be adapted to 

 old machines the results are always more or less unsatisfactory; the 

 arrangement may be such as to afford no adequate means for attach- 

 ing a guard, or a cover which protects one part of the machine may 

 interfere with some of the other working parts. These difficulties 

 can all be avoided if sufficient thought and attention are given to 

 safety considerations when new machinery is being designed, as the 

 different parts can then be arranged most advantageously. In plan- 

 ning a new plant, the drawings are all checked over to see that the 

 latest safety provisions have been included; the following note was 

 inserted in a contract prepared recently for a mill to be erected by the 

 American Steel & Wire Co. : 



Safeguarding of gears, spindles, couplings, collars, set screws, keys, etc., will 

 be covered as fully as possible in the drawings which we furnish, but it is 

 understood that these features shall be subject to the approval of our inspectors, 

 who shall have free access at all times to the machinery while it is in process 

 of construction and erection. 



In addition to the detailed specifications for various classes of 

 equipment, each of our purchasing agents has been supplied with the 

 following stamp, with the object of further stimulating interest in 

 safeguards on the part of machinery builders : 



Provisions for safeguarding workmen should be brought to our attention, as 

 we will consider them in selecting new machinery and equipment. 



This notice is stamped on correspondence, and the results which 

 are already in evidence show that it is having a beneficial effect, from 

 which other companies will profit as well as our own. 



