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Marine Section Of NSC Repeats

Winning Top Safety Award

The 60th Annual National Safety

Congress and Exposition held in

Chicago brought together in the common cause of safety deep-sea, inland waterways and Great Lakes vessel operators, shipbuilders, ship repairs, stevedores, labor, Coast

Guard and other government lead- ers to exchange experiences, ac- quired know-how and to renew a commitment to the cause of marine accident prevention.

Capt. Robert E. Hart, executive vice president of the Marine Index

Bureau, Inc., and public relations chairman for the Marine Section, in summing up the meetings stated, "This past year was certainly re- warding as the Marine Section which for the second consecutive year was the recipient of the 'Ex- cellence in Safety' award from the

National Safety Council." The Ma- rine Section won this coveted award over 27 other industrial sec- tions.

According to the National Safety

Council officials, it is most unusual for an industrial section to win the

NSC's Cameron Award twice in a row. The award is given to the sec- tion which makes the largest con- tribution to promoting and advanc- ing safety during the. preceding 12-month period.

Presentation of the award was made by Safety Council President

Howard Pyle. Receiving the award was the Section's general chairman for the past year, Capt. Richard N.

LePage of the Farrell Lines. Cap- tain LePage, on receiving the award said: "In the past two years, the U-S. maritime industry has con- ducted what amounts to a national campaign to promote safety at sea, on the docks and in the shipyards.

Safety indeed, has become the watchword of the American mer- chant marine and the cargo fleets of all nations engaged in domestic and international trade."

Capt. Hewlett R. Bishop, newly elected

General Chairman of the Marine Section of the National Safety Council for 1972-1973.

He further stated: "We in the marine industry must meet daily the new safety challenges as we put into effect new safety proce- dures, so essential to the operation and handling of cargo on technical- ly advanced U.S.-flag ships now in service or being built under the 1970 Merchant Marine Act. Our in- dustry's safety directors and their companies, representing both labor and management, will be working closely with the government to meet these challenges to insure that the 'flag-of-safety' that flies over our merchant fleet today, will also wave proudly over our revolu- tionary new fleet of tomorrow."

The Marine Section's program for 1972 was arranged by Robert

E. Kratzert of the Columbia Steam- ship Division of Oglebay Norton.

Captain LePage served as the chief executive officer of the 85- member Executive Committee dur- ing 1971-72. Capt. Hewlett R. Bish- op, president of the National Car- go Bureau, Inc-, was elected gen- eral chairman for the 1972-73 pe- riod. Fred R. Smith, chairman, Se- attle Stevedoring Company; H.H.

Howard, assistant to vice president for shipbuilding, Bethlehem Steel

Corporation; John D. Geary, vice president, The Ohio River Com- pany, and Robert E. Kratzert were elected vice general chairman for next year.

Best Paper Awards were present- ed to some of last year's conven- tion speakers. Nine of the 15 guest speakers were recipients of the

General Chairman's, Honorable

Mention and Citation Awards. The most-honored award, the General

Chairman's Award, went to Hugh

M. Douglas, safety coordinator,

Imperial Oil Company, Ltd. for his paper entitled "Total Environ- ment Control." Bruno J- Augenti, president of the Marine Index Bu- reau, Inc., and Rear Adm. W.A.

Jenkins, USCG, as Best Paper committee chairman, handled the presentations.

Marine Safety Poster Contest winners were Cities Service Tank- ers Corporation and the U.S. Coast

Guard. J.T. Gerrity, radio officer aboard Cities Service's Cantigny, was the recipient of the Golden

Safety Poster award and Coast- guardsman Ian L. MacCartney was awarded the Silver Safety Poster award.

The first session of the conven- tion dealt with the inland water- ways. John Kern of A.L. Simms

Brothers Towing Company, and

McVey F- Ward, southern regional representative of The American

Waterways Operators, Inc., served as session chairman. Speakers and subjects included : John Kern—"A

Fresh Look at the AWO Safety

Program"; Capt. Pierre R. Becker, superintendent, National River

Academy,—"The Two-Year Na- tional River Academy Program", and W.M. Aldridge, Dixie Carri- ers, Inc., and R.L. Fox, Ingram

Corporation,—"Safety Considera- tions in the Towing and Handling of LASH Barges."

The shipbuilding and ship re- pairing session chairman were

James R. O'Donnell, maritime safe- ty consultant, and H.H. Howard,

Bethlehem Steel Corporation.

Speakers and subjects included:

Richard L. Swift, Mine Safety Ap- pliances Company,—"Portable In- struments and Their Use Under

Current Safety Legislation"; Otis

T. Logue, Land & Marine Applica- tors, Inc-,—"Safety and Silicosis" ;

Horace A. Thompson III of Jones,

Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Car- rere & Denegre,—"An Analysis of the Occupational Safety and Health

Act from the Point of View of La- bor Relations Counsel."

Rear Adm. W.A. Jenkins, USCG, and Capt. D.H. Clifton, USCG, served as chairmen for the Coast

Guard session. The speakers and subjects included: Capt. C.T. New- man, USCG,—"Marine Casualties and Some of the Practical Aspects of Marine Boards of Investiga- tion" ; Comdr. D.F. Smith, USCG, —"The Regulatory Administrator,

A Partner in Safety", and Comdr.

C S. Loosmore, USCG,— "Ship

Safety Through Damage Analysis ; the Ship Structure Committee Ap- proach."

The ship operations session was chaired by T.R. Alff, Nacirema Op- erating Company, and S.A. Clauss,

Steamship Trade Association. The speakers and subjects included:

Elizabeth Whitaker Tezza, Palmet- to Stevedoring Company,—"Start- ing from Scratch in Longshore

Safety"; O.W. Uhrhan, Pacific

Maritime Association, — "Safety

Training versus Skill Training", and W.J. Brown, International

Terminal Operating Corporation,— "Matching Stevedore Equipment with Safety Requirements."

The 15th Annual Great Lakes

Day Luncheon was presided over by E.T. Gilmore of Oglebay Nor- ton Company. The guest of honor was John L. Horton, assistant man- ager, Cleveland Cliffs Iron Com- pany, and the guest speaker was

John D. Lawlor, executive vice president of the National Safety

Council-

The joint marine luncheon with the Propeller Club of the Port of

Chicago was presided over by

Charles P. Rayman, president, Chi- cago Propeller Club. The guest speaker was Rear Adm. Albert A.

Heckman, USCG.

Best Papers presentation, left to right: Bruno J. Augenti and Rear Adm. W.A. Jenkins,

Best Paper Award Committee, Capt. D.H. Clifton, accepting awards for Comdr. M.E.

Welsh and DJ. Kerlin, USCG, and Capt. R.N. LePage, past general chairman.

Official judges of the Marine Safety Poster Contest, left to right: Capt. Robert E. Hart, executive vice-president, Marine Index Bureau, and Elizabeth V. Stephens, vice-president,

Ships' Operational Safety, Inc. The winning posters are on bottom row.

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