1923 Ford Factory Safety Film; Safety Is Its Own Reward 

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Ford was excellence. I was born 1966. I am 4th generation factory worker in Waterbury CT. My GreatGrandfather was a Caster at Chase. They were the only ones that worked 5 days a week because they needed an extra day to recover to work again 5he next week. The standard then in the late 1800’s was 6 days a week for still what was good strong hard labor. He got blackballed for a while for trying to unionize the shop, but they did hire him back because they needed him. By the time I came around, to the credit of GreatGrandpa’s attempts and Ford’s influence back then along with Union standards that put laws in place, it is a safer USA. (That should not be competing with export countries with lesser standards) There are some unfair comments listed here to this video. Certainly time is money. Always safer to stay home and do nothing, but than can kill you too. Certainly there are some companies and some foreman that are idiots and should not be worked for (so don’t) Humans are awesome creatures but some have to be told to get the safety glasses out of their pocket. I get a kick out of the safety officers not wearing eye protection. Sadly we have engineers on jobs that passed safety courses yet really do not understand what any of it is on the job.

Poor guy at 16:30 went in with an injured left hand but they amputated his right hand instead.

Holy guacamole, only 100 years of lost, cut, burned, slashed, hammered, broken, etc. human parts - great work....

The safety buttons and switches meant nothing if you were doing piece work and the foreman was getting grief about output from the suits. Especially if it was 2nd or 3rd shift. My dad and others would screw with the safety stuff with the foreman doing a Sgt Schultz from Hogan Heros when needed. Stupid? Yes indeed. That was probably the norm until the early 80s where he worked. He was in his 50s by then. The only way to make money was to cheat the safety equipment when possible because he was slowing down. The place had something called the ammonia room with 2 blast doors, just in case. He was in there once and kicked a frayed power cord that touched a puddle of the stuff. That and the fumes almost got him killed. Took the skin off of one arm up to his neck. That was maybe in the early 70s. I don't remember him missing work from it. I do remember his arm being the color or my "D" icon circle to the left but a little bit more pink.

Wow, and it is not even Friday.

Mooooore....

This was before OSHA and Union safety programs....Accidents always cost the company money....

Notice at 10:13 ,management guys look like two thugs..A lot of the foreman were ex pugilists that didn't mind using their fists to make a point..

Hand Tool Rescue "Rare Bow Chainsaw [Restoration]" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Wjv75kJyZ7M.html at the 27:40 mark. He's joking, but it's a serious joke. His big thing is antique tool restoration with lead and asbestos in the tool. He takes it all seriously, but those he takes it most seriously.

Uphill slow and Downhill fast Tonnage first and Safety last

Why are your videos so old and not any new videos?