The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 10 (May 1, 1929.)
Accident Prevention
Accident Prevention
“… I have always emphasised that the most satisfactory results in accident prevention, as in other spheres, are those which are obtained by voluntary effort, rather than by compulsion. But a genuine and universal voluntary effort must be forthcoming. It is not sufficient that many of the bigger and more progressive undertakings should realise the humanitarian and very definite economic advantages of making organised work for the prevention of accidents a definite function of scientific management. This knowledge must become universal. We, as a nation, cannot afford the wastage of life, limb, time and money which accidents entail…” —Rt. Hon. Sir William Joynton-Hicks, Secretary of State for Home Affairs.