California’s Safety History

THE GOAL

1911 A SEMINAL YEAR

RESULTS

• 146 garment workers, died from fire,

smoke inhalation, or falling to their deaths.

• Recent Jewish and Italian immigrant

women aged sixteen to twenty-three

• Oldest victim 48

• Youngest was 11

• Improved:

• building access & egress

• fireproofing requirements,

• fire extinguishers, alarm systems &

automatic sprinklers

• better eating & toilet facilities for workers

• Women & children’s work hour limitations

• ASSE October 1911

• NFPA 1896 – 1905 [FDNY}

WHO IS HIRAM JOHNSON

• Governor of CA 1911 to 1917

• Senator through 1945

• VP w/ Teddy Roosevelt (Bull Moose Party)

• Progressive who . . .

INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT COMMISSION

Established 1914

Work Comp Insurance & Safety Act

Industrial Accident Commission

Pillsbury, French, Lissner, Brownell (first safety

super)

IAIABC

• International Association of Industrial Accident

Boards & Commissions

• Encouraged Red Cross to start first aid training

in 1916

FIRST OSHA 30-HOUR CLASS

• Mission High School, San Francisco

• Superintendents, Foremen and

Mechanics Safety School

• 1929

• 1 Female attendee

CURRICULUM

• First aid

• Work Comp Act

• Comp Rating Schemes

• Organizing for Safety

• Explosives

• Mechanical & electrical hazards

• Tunnels & shafts

• Excavations

• Steel & Concrete Buildings

• Scaffolds

• Trenches

• Dams

CHRONOLOGY OF REGULATIONS

• Elevator Orders 1916

• Boiler Orders 1/1917 (copied by NY)

• Window Cleaning 1/1917

• Trench Safety Orders 1/1917

• Logging & Sawmill Orders 3/1917

• Construction orders after advisory committees in LA & SF 1/1918

• Tunnel Orders 1919

REPORTING SERIOUS INJURIES

• Reporting injuries – Sawmill orders; fail to report bemoaned as early as 1920

• 8 CCR 342(a) Every employer shall report immediately by telephone or telegraph to the

nearest District Office of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health any serious

injury or illness, or death, of an employee occurring in a place of employment or in

connection with any employment.

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HARD BOILED HAT

• Designed and

manufactured by ED

Bullard Co. of San

Francisco 1915

• Made of canvas, glue and

black paint with special

interior suspension.

• Mandatory at GGB

SAFETY NETS

• First nets on GGB?

• San Francisco 1915

•4th and Market

•Cost savings more

than $2000

FALL PROTECTION HARNESS

• Union Oil Company of California 1938

• Used for tank access and retrieval

• Specially woven linen fabric

• 2800 pounds breaking strength

SAFETY ENGINEERING COURSE

• Sponsor LA Chapter of California Safety

Society

• 20 week course

• Begins Feb 1937

• Course Fee: $2.10

WIDOW MAKER

• California Safety News

• Volume 1, #6

• June 1917

RECENT SAFETY AWARD WINNER

• 2003

• Distributed through the

internet

• Photographer unknown

THINK SAFETY

• The more things change

the more they remain

the same.

• Is this not our message

too?

SPECIAL THANKS

• Ed Callinan

• First employee of the DIR in 1951

• Graduate of the University of San Francisco

• Keeper of the reference books