AEC and Contractor Employment Trends Employment by AEC and its contractors totaled 142,601 in March 1954. Of this total, 6,258 were AEC employees and 136,343 contractor employees 64,027 in construction and design, and 72,316 in operations. This represents a decline of 9,094 from the peak of 151,695 reached last August. Although there was a gain of 650 operating employees during this period, AEC employment declined about 350, and construction and design employment declined 9,400. As currently forecasted, operating employment will increase at the rate of 750 per month during the ensuing 12 months and slower thereafter until it levels off at about 82,000 in mid 1956. Conversely, forecasts of construction and design employment indicate a decrease of about 2,000 per month until mid-1956. (See chart on p. 76.) Scientific and Engineering Employment Trends Scientific and engineering staffs of the AEC and its operating contractors totaled 13,612 in March 1954, and were made up of the following occupational categories: The total represented an increase of less than 1 percent during the past 12 months. Unfilled vacancies in contractor scientific and engineering staffs totaled 533 as of March 1954. Safety The AEC accident-prevention program continues to compare favorably with similar programs in private industry. A rising trend in the frequency of injuries per million man-hours in the latter part of calendar year 1953-from 2.6 in August to 2.89 in December-was corrected and a frequency of 2.62 experienced for the period January-April 1954. However, such a slight rise in frequency may be expected as construction is completed and new types of facilities are started up. Accord ingly, vigorous preventive action was taken during the past 6 months to minimize this tendency, and specific safety measures will be stressed in the field inspection program. The annual conference of AEC and contractor safety and fire protection personnel, held in Oak Ridge, Tenn., May 13-14, considered technical aspects of accident prevention and the importance of preevaluating risks. Fire Protection During 1953, AEC-owned industrial, construction and research facilities suffered $148,142 loss from 940 fires. This compares with $449,107 damage in 1952. The rate of annual fire loss during 1953 was 31⁄2 mills per $100 of AEC-owned property, roughly one-eighth the loss rate of insurance companies handling "preferred" industrial fire risks. Fire loss during the first part of 1954 did not exceed damage experienced in 1953 and the loss rate remains comparatively low. Despite increasingly high costs for firefighting services on construction activities, AEC recurring fire department expenditures were reduced by 25 percent during 1953. The towns of Los Alamos and Oak Ridge experienced the lowest and the second lowest fire losses in their respective histories during 1953. However, a heavy loss from one fire brought Richland, and the record for all AEC operated communities, above the comparable national average for municipalities. 1Eugene M. Zuckert signs this report since it covers a period of his incumbency which was concluded on June 30, 1954. Director, Division of Construction and Supply. JOHN A. DERRY. Director, Division of Information Services. MORSE SALISBURY. Oak Ridge (Tenn.) Operations Office... S. R. SAPIRIE. Dayton (Miamisburg, Ohio) Area St. Louis (Mo.) Area. San Francisco (Calif.) Operations Office. ations Office____ Eniwetok (Albuquerque, N. Mex.) Kansas City (Mo.) Field Office. Los Alamos (N. Mex.) Field Office. Dana (Terre Haute, Ind.) Area- BUFORD SPARKS. KENNETH A. DUNBAR. DONALD J. LEEHEY. PAUL W. SPAIN. CURTIS A. NELSON. Schenectady (N. Y.) Operations Office. JON D. ANDERSON. APPENDIX 2 MEMBERSHIP OF COMMITTEES STATUTORY COMMITTEES Joint Committee on Atomic Energy-Eighty-third Congress This committee was established by the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (sec. 15) to Senator EUGENE D. MILLIKIN (Colorado). Senator GUY R. CORDON (Oregon). Senator RICHARD B. RUSSELL (Georgia). Senator EDWIN C. JOHNSON (Colorado). Senator CLINTON P. ANDERSON (New Mexico). Senator JOHN O. PASTORE (Rhode Island). Representative CARL HINSHAW (California). Representative JAMES E. VAN ZANDT (Pennsylvania). Representative CARL T. DURHAM (North Carolina). Representative MELVIN PRICE (Illinois). Representative PAUL J. KILDAY (Texas). Military Liaison Committee Under sec. 2 (c) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, as amended, "there shall be a Military Liaison Committee consisting of a chairman, who shall be the head thereof, and of a representative or representatives of the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, detailed or assigned thereto, without additional compensation, in such number as the Secretary of Defense may determine. Representatives from each of the three Departments shall be designated by the respective Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. The committee chairman shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall receive compensation at a rate prescribed by law for the Chairman of the Munitions Board. The Commission shall advise and consult with the committee on all atomic energy matters which the committee deems to relate to military applications, including the development, manufacture, use and storage of bombs, the allocation of fissionable material for military research, |