e i- 4 Se w: -LASSIFIED others are placing increased confidence in the staff of the Grou The large number of physical examinations carried out for a varitty not of reasons, hovever, indicates that the menbers of this Croup waiting for business to come to them; they are going out looking[ for it. Of particular significance are the routine studies carried on all workers in certain areas, such as HT Shop and S Site. H we have an excellent example of a cooperative venture in which Group He2 was joined by representatives from Hel amd H-5, and they also received the wholehearted collaboration of the Divisi and Groups under study. 3. self. H-3, Here the record certainly speaks f ite In spite of the creatly increased number of man hours worked in the Laboratory the total mumber of lost time accidents vas tke lowest in the Laboratory's history; the frequency rate was the in the Laboratory's history; and the severity rate lower than year except 1947. The severity rate actually is so low that 1 be very significantly affected by pure happenstance, of the record, however, is not happenstance. The exce The intensive wv tection surveys, and in their frierdly cooperation with individual Divisions, Croups, and Sections have laid the groundwerk for this record. The Safety Engineers themselves, however, would be thB first to point out that equally important hes been the wholehearted o6-«- emer: 1Ou4u43 UNCLASSIHED LANL