The Department of Labor and Industry

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Identifikator:: 1827881585

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221260

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: The Department of Labor and Industry

Place of publication:: Harrisburg

Publisher:: Dep. of Labor and Industry

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 68 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Bureau of inspection

Collection:: Economics Books

BUREAU OF INSPECTION The Bureau of Inspection is the Department’s agency for enforcement of laws and regulations per- -aining to safety and to health. In its application of industrial safety it has kept pace with the modern educational trend until today no function of the Bureau is so important as its service as a highly trained consulting safety organization. In that ;apacity its expert services are available to every industrial group and to every individual concern, and to every individual worker. The Work of the Bureau of Inspection is performed through an organization which includes a field force of one hundred inspectors and twenty section chiefs and supervisors acting under a Bureau di- rector. General factory inspectors constitute the largest single body. Their activities are directed by supervisors from nine divisional offices so located that the supervising office of any division is as accessible as possible to all parts of its division. Elevator, boiler, building, and quarry inspections are made by es- pecially trained field men operating under section shiefs, who are located in the central office of the Bu- reau in Harrisburg. The general field force includes female inspectors located where their services are of most advantage for the application of those laws and regulations applying especially to female work- ers. There is a section especially devoted to the in- terests of women and minors in industry. Reduction of accidents and maintenance of health are the important services for industry which the Bureau of Inspection is charged to perform. The providing of mechanical safeguards and of such physical conditions as will advance sanitation are given to the Bureau to enforce through law. The same applies to special restrictions set about the employment of women and of minors, Inspectors are trained to note departures from these requirements and have them corrected. Ample police power is given to inspectors, but the bulk of industrial accidents being due only indirectly or not at all to causes which can be corrected mechanically, the Bureau of Inspection must go far beyond an exercise of police powers to realize its goal. Today the State factory inspector, while continuing the enforce- ment of mechanical safeguarding, devotes even more attention to en- listing the cooperation of industry in safety work through the forma- tion of plant safety committees, or through the assignment of a dis- tinet responsibility for safety to the persons in supervisory positions in factories of whatever size. It is the aim of the Bureau of Inspection that every factory inspector shall be a competent safety engineer, pre- pared by his training to apply the sum of all safety knowledge ac- cumulated in the Department to whatever problems he encounters. When desired by industry, shop meetings are addressed by representa- tives of the Bureau as a further means of imparting safety education. Bverv industrial accident of any consequence is investigated by T. J. Gould Assistant Director.

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