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National Safety Congress Marine Section To Hear Coast Guard Commandant Adm. O.W. Siler, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, will be the featured speaker at the Ma- rine Section Propeller Club lunch- eon during the 62nd annual Na- tional Safety Congress to be held in Chicago September 30 through October 3. Marine Section activities open at 9:30 a.m. Monday, September 30, in the Chicago Room of the La Salle Hotel, with a session de- voted to stevedoring. Principal speakers and their topics for this morning include Joseph Leonard, safety director, International Longshoremen's Association, speaking on "The Importance of Labor - Management Cooperation to Stevedore Safety"; W.J. Burns, director, Office of Hazard- ous Material, U.S. Department of Transportation, providing a "Haz- ardous Material Update"; and Pat B. Keller, director, T. Smith & Son, talking on the "Mississippi River System and Its Contribu- tion to Stevedore Safety." The Monday afternoon session on shipbuilding and ship repair will be held at 2 p.m. in the same location. The agenda includes Raymond Ewart, director, adver- tising and public relations, Avon- dale Shipyards, Inc., speaking on "Public Relations and Safety"; Allen F. Normand, assistant chief engineer, support technology, Bell Aerospace Co., on "Design, Con- struction, and Operational Safety of Surface Effects Ships"; and Walter T. McLean, consultant, McLean Associates, with a pres- entation on "Tool or Weapon? Are the Tools You Are Using at Marine Yards Safe?" An evening reception and awards presenta- tion is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Monday. Tuesday activities begin with a breakfast and annual business meeting scheduled for 7:30 a.m. in the Century Room of the La Salle Hotel. This will be followed by a barge and towing session beginning at 10:15 a.m. in the Chicago Room of the La Salle featuring "Safety in River Ter- minal and Barge Fleet Moorings," presented by Sheldon G. Held, chief marine surveyor, Hartford Insurance Group; and "Casualty Insurance — Its Part in Safety," discussed by Byron E. Crawford, safety coordinator, Exxon Co. USA. The ship operations session begins at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday after- noon in the Chicago Room and will include such topics as "Safety Training Aboard Great Lakes Vessels," by William Satterness, superintendent of safety training, Great Lakes Fleet, U.S. Steel Corp.; "Improving Tanker Safety Through Review of Casualties," by Art McKenzie, director, Tanker Advisory Center; "How the 1972 Amendments to the Longshore- men's and Harbor Workers' Com- pensation Act Affects Safety," by E.D. Vickery of Royston, Rayzor, Cook, & Vickery; and "Maritime Safety and the Maritime Institute of Technology," given by Max Carpenter, interim director, Mar- itime Institute of Technology & Graduate Studies. Meetings resume Wednesday morning at 9:30 a.m. in the Chicago Room with a U.S. Coast Guard session exploring such top- ics as "An Increase in Marine Casualties—Why?" presented by Comdr. W.E. Whaley Jr., chief of the Casualty Review Branch, U.S. Coast Guard; "Safety in Buoy Handling Operations Aboard Coast Guard Buoy Tenders," by Comdr. W.A. Wulff, chief of Short Range Aids to Navigation Plan- ning Branch, U.S. Coast Guard; and "An Explanation of the New Regulations for Carriage of Pack- aged Hazardous Materials by Water," by Lt. Comdr. C.L. Keller, chief of the Packaged Cargo Branch, U.S. Coast Guard. Marine Section activities will be capped by a Wednesday lunch- eon in the Century Room of the La Salle, featuring an address by Adm. O.W. Siler, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard. 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