Series 470 - General Files of the Division of Industrial Safety

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US HSA 470

Title

General Files of the Division of Industrial Safety

Date(s)

  • 1943-1970 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

0.42 cubic feet in one 5-inch box.

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Name of creator

(1943-1973)

Administrative history

1947-1960 division in the Workmen’s Compensation Bureau of DLIR (Act 64 SLH 1947).
1960-1973 separate division in DLIR (Act 1, 2nd Special Session, 1959, and Governor’s Executive Order no. 1 dated January 5, 1960).

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Scope and content

Created or collected in the Division of Industrial Safety.
Consists of correspondence; memoranda; telegrams; notes; agendas and minutes of advisory and other committees; inspection, injury, visit and trip reports; speeches and official statements; press releases; schedules and programs of meetings and conferences; historical monographs; an interim safety manual; sketches and maps of work sites, including harbors; and charts, graphs and tables of data and statistics. A few non-permanent records, such as accident and inspection reports, have been retained as examples of function and process. The minutes include those of the Boiler Code Advisory Committee and the Industrial Safety Code Advisory Committee whose members, from government, private industry and labor, advised the Division on safety matters.

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Accruals

System of arrangement

Alphabetical by file folder title; within folders in reverse chronological order.

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Unrestricted.

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Consists of letter- and legal-size original and carbon copy typescript leaves, mimeograph materials, photostats, folded oversize blueprints and diazos, and photographs.

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Dates of creation revision deletion

Created on 2001-04-26, Allen H. Hoof

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Archivist's note

2020-12-14, Carol Kellett: Entered into AtoM.

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