International 710 - Page 47

Accidents
can
be
prevented
with
your
help
No
accident-prevention
program
can be
suc-
cessful
without the
wholehearted
co-operation
of the
person who
is
directly
responsible
for
the
operation
of
equipment.
To
read
accident
reports
from
all
over the
country
is to
be
convinced
that
a large
number
of
accidents
can
be
prevented
only
by
the
operator
anticipating
the
result
before
the
accident
is
caused
and
doing
something
about
it. No
power-driven
equipment,
whether
it
be
transportation
or processing,
whether it
be on
the
highwav,
in the
harvest
field
or
in the
industrial
plant,
can
be safer than
the
man who
is at the
controls. If
accidents
are to
be
pre-
vented
—and they
can
be prevented
—it will
be
done by the
operators
who
accept a full
measure
of their
responsibility.
It
is
true
that the
designer,
the
manufacturer,
the safety
engineer
can help;
and they
will help,
but
their
combined efforts
can
be wiped
out
by
a single careless
act of the
operator.
It
is said that
'
'the best
kind
of a safety
device
is
a
careful
operator.
"
We
ask
you
to
be that kind of
an operator.