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Ravenna Ordnance Plant

Ravenna, Ohio

January, 1962

Dear Readerss

You seem to have survived the double holiday-weekend with a certain amount of pleasure and satisfaction, and returned to work to face 1962 with new resolutions and determinations. The emphasis which had been placed on safety during this past holiday season paid off in that the fatality rate fell short of what the. National Safety Council had pre dicted. However, it could have been better, as is the case with anything we do, BE SAFE IN SIXTY-TWO should be the top resolution you should keep throughout this year.

If life is worth living — and it is — it is worth living safely«,.

Rebadging Approved

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After a thorough review, higher command has given its approval

to the Contractor for its proposed rebadging program,, Vendors are now being contacted for badge component partso As soon as the component parts are received, the Industrial Relations Division will set up a schedule for the various

departments to enable all employees to be re-photographed.

Present badges will be

surrendered at the time the new badges are issuedo John. P« Talkowski, Employment and Services Supervisor, will be in charge of re badging, arid the program will be accomplished with limited interruption in the regu lar working schedule,, Production Men Meet Again

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The Production Subcommittee to the Integration Com

mittee on Ammunition Loading met again, for the ninth time, with the Iowa Ordnance Plant as host, on December 19 and 20. G. R, Sanders, who is a member of the subcommittee, attended the two-day meeting in Burlington,

Iowa, and presented a report with movies on the debanding of 8-inch shello Auditors... Arrive

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The Army Audit Agency began its annual audit at the Ravenna Ord nance Plant on January 12O Representing the Columbus Office for this audit are Frank J, Holas and James S, Coniff. The audit is expected to take ap proximately three weeks. Voice Taped To Film

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The Operating Contractor is justly proud of its accomplish ments in the bomb melt-out program which had been in process

in reactivated portions of the former Ammonium Nitrate Line, While operations were in full swing, color movies had been taken showing the sequence of operations from the time the bombs were removed from outside storage, loaded onto trucks and conveyed

to the bomb melt-out line, and then processed through the line until the explosives were reclaimed and packaged as scrap for sale to the highest bidder, A narration of the operation to coincide with the film was written by the Engineering staff, and the voice of Carl Bauman was selected to record the narration

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Safety Still On the Ball

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Last March, during the Supervisory Safety-Training Meet ing, C. F. Craver addressed the members with a short

talk on the sequence of events leading up to a personal injury and then gave an ex

planation of the 1-29-300 ratio of instances leading to a serious injury.

To prove

this formula, Mr, Craver placed one white, 29 red, and 300 blue gum balls, wrapped in aluminum foil, into a container. The 300 blue balls represent occurrence without injury; the red ones a first aid injury; and the white cos a serious or fatal injury.

This program wasn't given much publicity at the time because no one knew just how the balls would bounce. However, it has proven itself quite effective during the past 10 months.

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A drawing has been held at each monthly meeting, with each member drawing a Supervisors getting blue balls keep them without incurring any obligation,

since the blue denotes occurrence without injury.

Members drawing red balls are required to prepare material for the next sched uled meeting, So far, J. N, DiMauro, W. J. Bowser, R. 0. Moneypenny, R. G. Pavlick, Iu E. Lynch, R. L, Baynes, R. B. Walters, R* Howell, and C, F. Bauman have picked red and have written original and interesting articles about safety which they pre sented at the meetings, R. 0, Moneypenny has the distinction of being the first two-time drawee.

The supervisor who gets the white ball will be required to prepare material To date the white ball has not been un

and conduct the entire following meeting. covered.

After the meeting on January 11, there were 83 balls remaining — some blue, some red, and one white.

Eventually, all will be selected.

Ask any one cf the supervisors what they think of this program and they will

tell you they are fee it; that it makes them more safety conscious; that it gives

them a direct opportunity to be heard and air their views and problems^ that it en ables them to get a plant-wide picture of safety from other supervisors, who will more or less present topics olcto to them and frora which all will benefit. All of tiiid began. .If/at to prove a point, but, it is drawing a great deal of safety interest to:id. enthusiasm from supervision who has the roapon,.ibility of carrying safety to oach Mid every cnployce throughout the plant,

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Fred Cooper has been serving Ravenna Arsenal, Inc. in traffic

and purchasing activities since October of 1952; and Bill

Deaver.s has also been a contractor- employee nigh on 10 years, working mostly as an area inspector and munitions handler, Not u.nb.il their hospitalization in Ravenna in December X