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£200 a Day for Safety
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NO fewer than 31 different types of protective clothing and equipment are issued free to employees of the Austin Motor Co., Ltd. This costs the company nearly 11,000 per week, or £200 per working day. An exhibition of safety measures in force at the Longbridge factory was opened in the company's showroom last week.
The exhibition includes examples of equipment like the special breathing set used on such work as cleaning out petrol storage tanks, a cyanide antidote cabinet for immediate application in the event of poisoning, a wide range of fire-fighting appliances, including a special tool designed in the works for turning burning gas cylinders, and a gas-detector tamp.
That these measures have• proved amply worth while can be gathered from the fact that whereas the average ascertainable time loss in 1950 for British industry as a whole was 2.10 man-hours per 100,000, the corresponding figure at the Austin factory during the same period was only 1.32. Last year, Austin was able to reduce this to 1.18, which is the lowest in the histOry of the company. The payroll now stands at 18,000—one of the largest in the industry.