Asbestos Textile Institute General Meeting Minutes on Air Hygiene and the Handbook (1954)

Five pages of minutes of the Asbestos Textile Institute's General Meeting of March 11, 1954, in New York, signed by its secretary, M. C. Shaw. H. M. Jackson of Johns-Manville reported on the Air Hygiene Committee's work and the French members' reports, and suggested that because many industrial hygienists and insurance company specialists had asked for the Handbook of Asbestos Textiles, its next edition might include a section on air hygiene and dust control. The discussion "revealed some reluctance on the part of the membership to report such information at this time," and Jackson was asked instead to draft an outline for the Board of Governors to review.

What it shows

The members felt "much more information will be required before an authoritative presentation can be made." The same meeting voted to move the Institute's research fellowship from Rutgers University to the Philadelphia Textile Institute, and asked its fiber committee to gather supply figures from Canadian miners through the Quebec Asbestos Mining Association for federal buyers. The minutes show the trade group holding back, for the time being, from putting dust and health information into its public handbook.

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, 3/11/54 - General Meeting. H.M. Jackson reports that the Air Hygiene Committee is continuing to pursue an active program of investigations related to dust control and hygienic problems of the asbestos industry. Jackson gives a review of the "reports from the French associate member companies." Jackson states that many industrial hygienists and insurance company specialists have expressed considerable interest in the air hygiene and dust control problems of the asbestos industry.

Related documents

• Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene Committee Minutes on Fiber Counts and French Reports (1954)

About this copy

This is document 40 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-000525 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-000529.