Report Unsafe Conditions.

In any workshop, engine-shed or yard, unsafe conditions, which might imperil the safety of employees, develop sometimes very suddenly. They can be remedied only in so far as their existence is made known by the employees concerned. Protection from accident in these circumstances, therefore, is a matter which concerns the individual. That employee is acting in his own best interest, in the interests of his family, his fellow employees, and of the Department, who, observing unsafe conditions or practices, takes immediate steps to advise a responsible officer of the hazard with a view to having safe conditions speedily restored.

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Avoid Celluloid Eye Shades.

The number of persons who, for the protection of their eyes, wear eye shades when reading or writing in their homes, and when engaged in their various occupations in office and workshop, renders it necessary to sound a note of warning against the use of celluloid eye shades for this purpose.

Composed mostly of soluble guncotton and camphor, celluloid is a highly inflammable substance and numerous eye injuries of a serious nature have been caused through shades made of this material becoming ignited. Sparks from fires, cigarettes, cigars and pipes, are the principal causes of such accidents, but recent tests have shown that celluloid can be set on fire by hot chips flying from machine tools.

Shades are excellent devices for lessening eye strain and protecting the eyes from the glare of fierce fires and lights and from fragments thrown by machine tools (though goggles are more suitable for the latter purpose) but the use of celluloid eye shades is fraught with too many dangers to justify their use in any circumstances.

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Can You Answer These Safety Questions in the Affirmative?

(1)	As an employee, are your working methods safe?
(2)	Are the tools with which you work the correct tools and in first class safety order?
(3)	When in the course of your daily work you observe unsafe conditions or practices which, if passed over, might involve fellow employees in accidents, do you report the matter to the responsible officers concerned in order to have such unsafe conditions and practices remedied?
(4)	In your anxiety to get home quickly after your day's work do you refuse to take short cuts through railway yards and in other ways disregard the rules of safety first?
(5)	Are you as careful in the carrying out of safety principles in your own home as in the course of your daily work?
(6)	Are you a firm believer in the efficacy of First Aid in all cases of injury great or small?