ACCIDENTS ON SCHEDULE

“IN MY experience in industry I have found that all accidents happen in the first two hours of the first half of the working day, and the last two hours of the last half,” says Dr. W. Louis Hartman, chief surgeon, Michigan Central Railroad, writing in National Safety News. Says The Nation’s Health (Chicago):

The reasons given for this is that it takes the worker two hours to divert his mind from the things outside his work. He may have financial difficulties or sickness in his home. He is slow to adjust himself to his task. The accidents occurring in the last two hours are due to fatigue largely, and might be overcome to some extent by I proper physical as well as mental care. It should be the duty of the supervisory forces, | especially foremen, to keep an active interest in injured employees, and encourage them to return to work as soon as they are able to perform satisfactory service, tho they should not be allowed to do work which would in any way interfere with their recovery. Lighter work might be provided for the worker, but Dr. Hartman points out that an occupation of some kind tends to hasten recovery by keeping the worker’s mind from dwelling on his injuries.

Source: The Literary Digest for April 9, 1927

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