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Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich (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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s topreventing accidentsrather than to makingreports of them afterthey occur. It doesntdo much good to tellpeople that they musthave a safe attitude. Acorrect attitude towardsafety must be built intothem by a series of sat-isfying, helpful, every- day observations and suggestions,persuasively passed along by super-visors at all levels. On the other hand, a person maybe taught how to do a job safelyand wind up doing it unsafely to-morrow. Years of job experienceor a careless familiarity with sur-roundings have a tendency to causesome people to develop contempt fora practice that has come to appeartedious to them. To minimize thistendency, our training aim is notonly on ho%v to do a job, but why itmust be done that way. And then,by repetition, fix details of a pro-cedure so firmly in peoples mindsthat it becomes habit-forming—sohabit-forming that they will rebelagainst doing it any other way. Safety Observation Plan A VERY important step in our safetyprogram is a sort of check-up. For
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Testing the holding power of a strand puller^ an essential tool for terisioning cable supporti)ig strands, at Bell Telephone Laboratories 244 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER

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