Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene Committee Minutes on Fiber Conditioning and the 1956 Program (1955)

Two pages of minutes of the Asbestos Textile Institute's Air Hygiene Committee meeting of December 7, 1955, signed by D. R. Holmes as chairman. Members discussed spraying oil on asbestos fiber to hold down dust, and the health questions raised by the oil sprays. The committee adopted a one-year program: uniform pre-employment and yearly medical examinations, studies of dust control, work on fiber conditioning, lower dust counts, and measuring the dust in raw fiber from the mines. One company reported cutting weave room dust counts "from six to nine million per cu. ft. down to one million."

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley 1,000 in 1984. Its index describes this document as follows:

ATI Meeting Minutes, 12/7/55 - Air Hygiene Committee. The Committee adopts the following program for one year: 1) Adopt uniform pre-employment and yearly exams. 2) Make continual and complete studies of dust control. 3) Continue to study the problems concerning fibre conditioning. 4) Continue work to lower dust counts. 5) Determine the percentage of dust in virgin fibre. Each member is to prepare for a dust count survey by Travelers or IHF.

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This is document 48 of the Motley 1,000, from the set the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust's records facility certified as true copies, pages CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-000557 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-000558.