Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene Committee Minutes on the Industrial Hygiene Foundation Program (1947)

Three pages of minutes and recommendations of the Asbestos Textile Institute's Air Hygiene Committee meeting of November 19, 1947, at the Engineers' Club in Philadelphia, signed by B. W. Luttenberger of Raybestos-Manhattan as chairman. The committee recommended that members adopt a first-year program, proposed by Mr. Hemeon of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation, to reduce dust and "improve the diagnostic procedure," at a cost not over $5,000. Its engineering part would gather and share dust control designs and standardize dust counts; its medical part would have Dr. Walmer of the Foundation work with company doctors on uniform diagnosis.

What it shows

The committee listed three advantages of the program. It "would provide clear evidence that the Institute member companies were taking definite steps to further safeguard the health of their employees"; the Foundation's standing "would reflect favorably on our organization"; and access to nationally recognized medical authority "might be extremely valuable for purposes of testimony on specific cases, or in obtaining State or Federal approval of desired programs or uniform procedure." The minutes show the textile makers' early reasons for working with the Foundation, which later carried out studies for the Institute and the Quebec mining companies.

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, 11/19/47 - Air Hygiene Committee. Committee recommends that the engineering and medical program outlined by Hemeon of the IHF be implemented.

About this copy

This is document 64 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-000733 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-000735.