ABSTRACT
This statement is quoted from an address by the President of the United States before the National Conference on Industrial Safety ...
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The implications of accident prevention are far more comprehensive and dramatic than casual thought might indicate. No great imagination is required to conclude that the prosperity and security of the nation, if not indeed of the world, are affected and endangered by its lack. This is not merely to say that the thousands of deaths, the millions of injuries and the loss of billions of dollars caused by occupational accidents in one year alone could not be absorbed without serious disturbance to our national economy. Rather it is to point out that these tragic results are but the reflection of conditions that strike at the very foundation of the American way of life. In addition the effect of accidents, aside from the loss of life, property and dollars, is to restrict seriously both employment and the production of goods and services on which the welfare of the nation is so utterly dependent.
