Woodworking safeguards for the prevention of accidents in lumbering and woodworking industries

Preface

This pamphlet undertakes to offer a few practical suggestions for safeguarding workmen engaged in lumbering and woodworking industries. It necessarily confines itself chiefly to machines, operations and conditions which are more or less common, but it is hoped that the suggestions contained herein will aid in impressing upon manufacturers possibilities in safeguarding which with some variation will be applicable to many of the special machines and operations that cannot be even touched upon in a work of limited extent.

There are of course many patented as well as home-made safety devices other than those mentioned herein, which could well be included did space permit, but an effort has been made to show as representative a collection as possible. We shall be very glad to render any assistance at our disposal to anyone who may be interested in obtaining further information about the methods of safeguarding to which we have called attention.

In preparing this book, the author has received invaluable assistance from the inspection force of the 7ETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, from many makers of woodworking machinery, from a large number of manufacturers in the various woodworking industries and from other concerns actively engaged in promoting the safety of their employees, from both foreign and domestic makers of safety devices, from various publications both in this country and abroad dealing with methods of guarding against industrial accidents, and from individuals who have aided him with both advice and criticism. He takes this opportunity of tendering grateful acknowledgment to one and all.