W. B. Reitze to Plant Managers on Posting Industrial Hygiene Survey Reports (1979)

A one-page memo of April 16, 1979, from W. B. Reitze of Johns-Manville's headquarters health and safety staff to plant, production and general managers, copied to Dr. Paul Kotin. "Once again, it has been brought to my attention that certain plants are not posting industrial hygiene survey reports," Reitze writes. Posting was mandatory for all regularly scheduled surveys, though not for special surveys "taken for nonroutine purposes," and he refers managers to a July 1977 bulletin setting out the policy.

In Johns-Manville's chronology

Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows:

Reitze writes to various plant managers, 4/16/79, that he has learned that certain plants are not posting dust counts. He stresses that it is mandatory that counts be posted. Reitze encloses a J-M bulletin issued in July 1977 which clearly outlines J-M's policy.