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Identifier: belltelephonemag00vol2930amerrich (find matches)
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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ed by all the Bell Com-panies, illustrating the cooperativeendeavor throughout the System tohelp all employees avoid injuries. First-aid training was introducedin the Bell System almost 40 yearsago with the assistance and coopera-tion of the American Red Cross.During World War II, civilian de-fense organizations and Red Crosschapters had thousands of telephonepeople in their ranks as first-aid in-structors. In the present nationalemergency, first-aid training pro-grams have been accelerated andtelephone employees once again areforming an important part of suchorganizations. The Bell System, through mem- Jf hen we give a man employment inthis business, he has a right to expectthat we will point out to him anyhazard that he is likely to face in anyoperation he is asked to perform. Healso has a right to expect that we willshow him how to avoid that hazard.He believes we are competent to teachhim, to train him, and to supervise hiswork, so he may perform his assignedtasks safely. The Bell
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Telephone Company engineers have incorporated safety in the design and maintenance of trucks and other motor vehicle equipment bership in various organizations—such as National and local SafetyCouncils, and the American Stand-ards Association—keeps in touchwith the progress of safety programsthroughout the country. The Tele-phone Companies also work closelywith gas, electric, and power com-panies and other utilities so that bestuse may be made of pooled experi-ences. Svstem operates some55,000 trucks and mo-tor vehicles. Thesevehicles, along withwinches, derricks, pole-hole diggers, trailers,cable plows, tractors,and other heavy powerequipment, present asubstantial exposure toaccidents. With thegrowth in traffic on thecountrvs streets andhighways, the opera-tion of all this equip-ment has become in-creasingly difficult. Inthe final analysis, thesuccess of the motorvehicle safety programrests in the hands ofthe 75,000 regular andoccasional operators of 1951-52 Bell System Safety Re

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