IV.  SUPERVISION OF CLOAK-ROOMS AND SANITARY CONVENIENCES.

The Welfare Supervisor should be held responsible for the following matters:—­

    (1) General cleanliness.

    (2) Prevention of Loitering.

    (3) Prevention of Pilfering.

The Management will decide what staff is necessary to assist her, and it should be her duty to report to the Management on these matters.

V. PROVISION OF OVERALLS.

The Welfare Supervisor should have the duty of supervising the Protective Clothing supplied to the women for their work.

EXTRAMURAL WELFARE.

The Welfare Supervisor should keep in touch with all outside agencies responsible for:—­

    (1) Housing.

    (2) Transit facilities.

    (3) Sickness and Maternity cases.

    (4) Recreation.

    (5) Day Nurseries.

In communicating with any of these agencies it will no doubt be preferable that she should do so through the Management.

III.  RECORDS.

A.  The Welfare Supervisor should for the purpose of her work have some personal records of every woman employee.  If a card-index system is adopted, a sample card suggesting the necessary particulars which it is desirable should be kept by Welfare Supervisors is supplied to employers on request.

B.  The Welfare Supervisor should have some way of observing the health in relation to the efficiency of the workers, and if the Management approved this could be done: 

(a) By allowing her to keep in touch with the Wages Department.  She could then watch the rise and fall of wages earned by individual employees from the point of view that a steady fall in earnings may be the first indication of an impending breakdown in health.

(b) By allowing her to keep in touch with the Time Office she should be able to obtain records of all reasons for lost time.  From such records information can be obtained of sickness, inadequate transit and urgent domestic duties, which might otherwise not be discovered.  Here again, if a card-index system is adopted a sample card for this purpose can be obtained from the Welfare and Health Section on request.

(c) By keeping records of all cases of accident and sickness occurring in the Factory.  Sample Ambulance Books and Accident Record Cards can also be obtained from the Welfare and Health Section.

“THE WOMEN’S LAND ARMY”

“If it were not for the women, agriculture would be at an
absolute standstill on many farms in England and Wales today.”

—­President of the Board of Agriculture.

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