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Section Twvo Urban and Rural Students Meet Through Exchange Trips The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, May 23, 1979 9- More than' Lip Service Puts Zip in Goodyear' s Safety Activities Education can be fun when games like Spili and Speli make it an enjoyable challenge. Playing firefighter is exciting for these boys as Bowmanville Fireman Graydon Brown explains the equipment in thecab of one of the big tankers. Fireman Bill Lyle decks one of the Grade three students out in fire department smoke gear to demonstrate what happens when a real fire occurs. Urban and rural students mix to play let's pretend farming. Courtesy of The Wingfoot Clan That Goodyear Canada is more than paying lip service to employee safety was apparent at. this year's Industrial Accident Preven- tion Association conference held recently in Toronto and attended by more than 8,000 delegates. The company's director of community relations, Clarke Moon, chaired a panel discus- sion on Bill 70, Ontario's new occupational health and safety regulations; AI Molto, the manager of safety and securi- ty at the Toronto plant, gave a talk on the saf e operation of fork-lift trucks, and Bowman- ville plant manager, Jack Taylor, served on a panel which discussed management-labor attitudes toward employees' health and safety. Apart from this, 21 employees from the Toronto plant, six from Bowmanville and one from Quebec attend- ed. Molto serves as a director of an IAPA sub-organîzation representing the rubber industry, and another repre- senting all industry ini the area of the Toronto plant, Toronto Humber; Bill Fraser, the company's manager of safety, security and industrial hygiene, is an associate director of one of these organizations; Moon is a member of the IAPA advisory board; Taylor is co-chairman of the IAPA-Ontario Federa- tion of Laborliaison commit- tee for the Bowmanville area, and Gord Schissler, the Bowmanville plant's safety coordinator, serves on the executive of the samne commit- tee. Eric Nickerson, millroom foreman at Bowmanville, said the conference made hlm aware that information and advice are almost at one's :fingertips. "The contacts that can be made and the amount of information available on any subject are far more than I thoughit they'd be, " he said. "The conference opened my eyes. It made me realize that help is there for the asking."ý Nickerson found Molto's talk the most interest- ing of the day. Joe Shushetski, a supervisor in the cure at thc Toronto plant, was pleac'ed with the emphasis the conference put on absenteeism. "gAb- senteeismi isn't looked at today by young people like it was 10 or 15 years ago," hie said. "Now, the younger employees want their work to be interesting. If it isn't they get bored and this sometimes leads to absenteeism, like taking a day off now and then or extending the weekend by a day." He was impressed with the awareness of the problem shown by IAPA people and their attempts to solve it. Ray Moffatt, a tuber operator at the Toronto plant and representative of Local 232 of the United Rubber Workerson the factory safety council, had one complaint: hie didn't see enough. "With sO many presentations and exhi- bits around, it was difficuit to decide what to do with the time we had," hie commented. The event lie found most interesting was the discussion on the changing relationship between management and labor on the health and safety of employees, in which Bow- manville plant manager Jack Taylor took part. "Both sides brought out some good points," Moffatt said, "which,ý could lead to improvements. " Doug Hatherly, foreman in the conveyor beit department at )Bowmanville, said the presentation with the most impact for him was one which stressed that any plant safety program had to have the support of top management to be successful. "The session was called 'Strive for excel- lence', and it showed that the more positive management is about safety, the better chance any program has of succeeding," Hatherly com- mented. What struck Mike Nolan, a, supervisor in stock prepara- tion at the Toronto plant, was the commitment to safety by Goodyear and other major companies. "It seems the aim of the conference was to encourage companies to work with their employees to pro- vide safe working conditions and promote safe work habits, which would benefit every- body," he said, "and I believe everyone at the conference was impressed with this." Molto, whose presentation also interested ail Goodyear employees attending, said the high calibre of people involved in organizing the conference guaranteed its success. "It deait with ail aspects of safety, "Molto commented. "I can see how even the most experienced safety expert would get something out of it. " Graduate; -Scott William VanDriel, son of Mr. and Mrs. L.W. VanDriel has received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Geography from Wilfrid Laurier Univer- sity. Scott will be attending the Faculty of Education at Queen's University corne this fail. r RENT_7 A RABBIT! $9 a Day 7' per kilometre SPECIAL Weekly & montnJy RATES AVAILABLE Also *78&2 Passenger* BUE VIAL This young lady is quite obviously turned on and Not clearly visible but nevertheless under close scrutiny is the life of the classroom's resident crayfish. SALE CONTINUES 3uY ONE. .GETONE STOP-BOTH DIRECTIONS FOR A SCHOOL BUS Sale driving is a family affair. THOUSANDS 0F ROLIS IN STOCK ..........ROM 9 a roll THE WA&LLPARPER CENTRE 140 SIMOQE ST. S.,CORNER 0F JOHN ST,. OS-IAWA OPEN DAILY 9:30 -5.30 - FRIDAY 9:30 -9:00 579-1655 tuned in to the Xylophone. 1by Donna Fairey How are you gonna keep Hampton Public School Grade three students down on the farm after they've seen Bowmanville? The reverse may be said for Ontario Street School Grade three students who recently had the opportunity to observe the peaceful life of the country. The exehange trips between the two classes were the highlight of a program to acquaint students with the contrasting aspects of urban and rural life. The two trips were preceded by a month of classroom community, study. The combined classes visited a farm and toured the hamlet of Hampton to exemplify life in a rural community. On a reciprocal visit, the students visited Bowmanville's Fire Hall, Police Department and Museum to provide insight into an urban establishment. The program is sanctioned by the Northumberland -New- castle board of education and is a curriculum necessity for Grade three students. The two teachers involved in the exchange were Mrs. Jan Sousa, Hampton and Mrs. Ruth Gray, Ontario Street Sehool. R.R. 1 HAMPTON LLOYD'S GREENHOUSES AND COUNTRY FIORISI 728-3636 Celebra ting ou': lOth Anniversary! SPECIAL THIS WEEK... SPRINTER RED GERANIUMS 4"yYpot-.75* VALI DFROM MAY 24th taMAY 3Oth 1979 or while supplies last. 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