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National Safety Congress

Marine Section To Hear

Coast Guard Commandant

Adm. O.W. Siler, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, will be the featured speaker at the Ma- rine Section Propeller Club lunch- eon during the 62nd annual Na- tional Safety Congress to be held in Chicago September 30 through

October 3.

Marine Section activities open at 9:30 a.m. Monday, September 30, in the Chicago Room of the

La Salle Hotel, with a session de- voted to stevedoring. Principal speakers and their topics for this morning include Joseph Leonard, safety director, International

Longshoremen's Association, speaking on "The Importance of

Labor - Management Cooperation to Stevedore Safety"; W.J.

Burns, director, Office of Hazard- ous Material, U.S. Department of

Transportation, providing a "Haz- ardous Material Update"; and Pat

B. Keller, director, T. Smith &

Son, talking on the "Mississippi

River System and Its Contribu- tion to Stevedore Safety."

The Monday afternoon session on shipbuilding and ship repair will be held at 2 p.m. in the same location. The agenda includes

Raymond Ewart, director, adver- tising and public relations, Avon- dale Shipyards, Inc., speaking on "Public Relations and Safety";

Allen F. Normand, assistant chief engineer, support technology, Bell

Aerospace Co., on "Design, Con- struction, and Operational Safety of Surface Effects Ships"; and

Walter T. McLean, consultant,

McLean Associates, with a pres- entation on "Tool or Weapon?

Are the Tools You Are Using at

Marine Yards Safe?" An evening reception and awards presenta- tion is scheduled for 6 p.m. on

Monday.

Tuesday activities begin with a breakfast and annual business meeting scheduled for 7:30 a.m. in the Century Room of the La

Salle Hotel. This will be followed by a barge and towing session beginning at 10:15 a.m. in the

Chicago Room of the La Salle featuring "Safety in River Ter- minal and Barge Fleet Moorings," presented by Sheldon G. Held, chief marine surveyor, Hartford

Insurance Group; and "Casualty

Insurance — Its Part in Safety," discussed by Byron E. Crawford, safety coordinator, Exxon Co.

USA.

The ship operations session begins at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday after- noon in the Chicago Room and will include such topics as "Safety

Training Aboard Great Lakes

Vessels," by William Satterness, superintendent of safety training,

Great Lakes Fleet, U.S. Steel

Corp.; "Improving Tanker Safety

Through Review of Casualties," by Art McKenzie, director, Tanker

Advisory Center; "How the 1972

Amendments to the Longshore- men's and Harbor Workers' Com- pensation Act Affects Safety," by

E.D. Vickery of Royston, Rayzor,

Cook, & Vickery; and "Maritime

Safety and the Maritime Institute of Technology," given by Max

Carpenter, interim director, Mar- itime Institute of Technology &

Graduate Studies.

Meetings resume Wednesday morning at 9:30 a.m. in the

Chicago Room with a U.S. Coast

Guard session exploring such top- ics as "An Increase in Marine

Casualties—Why?" presented by

Comdr. W.E. Whaley Jr., chief of the Casualty Review Branch,

U.S. Coast Guard; "Safety in

Buoy Handling Operations Aboard

Coast Guard Buoy Tenders," by

Comdr. W.A. Wulff, chief of Short

Range Aids to Navigation Plan- ning Branch, U.S. Coast Guard; and "An Explanation of the New

Regulations for Carriage of Pack- aged Hazardous Materials by

Water," by Lt. Comdr. C.L. Keller, chief of the Packaged Cargo

Branch, U.S. Coast Guard.

Marine Section activities will be capped by a Wednesday lunch- eon in the Century Room of the

La Salle, featuring an address by

Adm. O.W. Siler, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard.

The National Safety Congress, sponsored by the National Safety

Council, is the largest annual safety meeting of its kind in the world and attracts some 16,000 safety-minded persons from across the nation and many for- eign countries. The meeting serves as an exposition with hun- dreds of exhibits of safety equip- ment and services as well as a forum of more than 200 sessions for the exchange of safety ideas and information. open-and-shut case lor quality!

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