CHEM-TEXTS
Vol. 2 No. 6 Page 3
Good Packaging (Continued from Page 1)
[IMAGE: Box of “New! ADVANCED all” detergent]
[IMAGE: Packages of “THNX” products stacked]
YOU BE THE CUSTOMER . . . WHICH WOULD YOU BUY?
Packages on left are dirty and in poor condition. As the customer, you would buy the clean packages.
favor when he calls – we are not doing him a favor by serving him.
- A Customer is part of our business – not an outsider.
- A Customer is not a cold statistic – he is a flesh-and-blood human being with feelings and emotions like our own.
- A Customer is not someone to argue or match wits with.
- A Customer is a person who brings us his wants – it is our job to fill those wants.
- A Customer is deserving of the most courteous and attentive treatment we can give him.
- A Customer is the life blood of this and every other business.
Since the customer is the most important person in our business, each of us has the responsibility to provide them with the best in packaging, whether its our chemicals, rubber or latex products. Undented, clean-looking, and neat-stencilled packages will help us keep our customers satisfied and even improve our business.
Jim Kennedy Retires Recently
[IMAGE: Three men in suits, one shaking hands with another]
Ed Weaving, watches as Jim Kennedy, center, is congratulated by John Evans on his retirement. Kennedy, a member of the plant protection dept., had more than 28 year’s Company service. Jim is presently a member of the Naugatuck Police Commissioners.
Plant Sponsors H.S. Junior Achievement Company
Unifirm, received its official operating charter as a new “business firm” from John Evans. Francis Szezesiul, a sophomore at Naugatuck High School, was elected president of the Company.
The purpose of Junior Achievement is to give high school students a real opportunity to learn about business by running a business. Unifirm is an actual business enterprise, for real materials and real work produce a real product which is sold to customers to make a real profit.
Members learn the meaning of Capital – because they raise the money to operate the Company. They learn the meaning of Productivity because they see how poor production practices jeopardize their sales and profit.
Junior Achievement gives students an opportunity to obtain an accurate understanding of the basic economic factors of our business system.
The key word to understanding business is profit, a word which creates considerable misunderstanding about business. Without it, a business cannot survive. Its function is vital to the Company because part of it is paid to stockholders who invested in the Company and part reinvested in the Company to improve, expand and build new facilities.
Unifirm pays regular salaries to its officers and other personnel. It also pays taxes; keeps accounting records; carries insurance; pays dividends to stockholders if profits are made; and performs just about every business practice and procedure of a large corporation. Learning by doing teaches students the facts about business operations.
[IMAGE: Group of men reviewing documents at a table]
Reviewing plans with the president of Unifirm are plant advisors l. to r. Jack McGowan; Francis Szezesiul, president; Steve Schwartz and Kevin Kelley, who replaced Don Delagrange, recently drafted into the Armed Services.
Minor Injuries Can Become Serious: Report Them Immediately To Hospital
Some of us don’t usually think much of a small cut, scratch, blister or a bruise as an injury. If we get something in our eye, we don’t think it’s very important unless it hurts or really damages the eye.
The “little injuries” usually don’t worry us because they don’t take us off the job or put us into a hospital bed. They don’t, if we take the simple step of reporting the injury promptly for competent, first-aid treatment at the plant hospitals to prevent the “little injury” from turning into something serious.
This means all injuries, including cuts, scratches, strains and bruises. None of these may be serious in themselves, but because of neglect, any one of them may start something serious through infection.
Don’t gamble with good health and safety by trying to be your own first-aidman and deciding that because you don’t feel too bad, you don’t need any other treatment. This has actually happened in a number of cases in the plant with rather painful and unpleasant results.
Remember to report all injuries at once, even the “little ones” and get proper first-aid treatment from those qualified to give it. See the plant nurses right away during the day; or at night, contact the night supervisor.
NOVEMBER 1968 — ACCIDENTS IN DEPARTMENTS
| DEPARTMENT | EYE | BRUISE | FRAC-TURE | CUTS & ABRA-SIONS | AMPU-TA-TIONS | BURNS | CHEMI-CAL BURNS | Sprains | Back Sprains | DUST OR FUMES | SLIV-ERS | DERM-ATITIS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chemical Production | 3 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 25 |
| Reclaim Production | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 |
| Synthetic Production | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| Materials Handling | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 13 |
| Mechanical (Chemical) | 6 | 5 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 51 |
| Mechanical (Synthetic) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 22 |
| Research — Development | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 29 |
| Other | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
| NOV. TOTAL | 16 | 19 | 0 | 58 | 0 | 11 | 9 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 23 | 6 | 164 |
| 11 Month Average For 1968 | 22 | 30.5 | .90 | 78 | 0 | 18 | 10 | 17 | 8.5 | 4 | 27 | 10 | 226 |
| 8 Full Month Average For 1967 | 28 | 42 | 1 | 90 | .12 | 19 | 14 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 27 | 9 | 267 |