Johns-Manville Industrial Relations Managers' Meeting on the Company Health Program (1955)

Pages 19 to 35 of the record of Johns-Manville's Industrial Relations Managers' Meeting at Hot Springs, Virginia, November 28 to December 2, 1955, with its cover. It summarizes a talk by Dr. Kenneth W. Smith, the company's medical director, on the J-M health program (medical examinations, accident prevention, industrial hygiene and workmen's compensation), and one by H. M. Jackson on accident prevention, industrial hygiene and compensation, followed by questions and answers. Smith's section on compensation opened: "We have a moral and legal obligation to make some financial restitution to those unfortunate individuals who have been harmed by our production processes."

What it shows

Smith urged exit examinations for workers leaving after "sufficient disease exposure which might present itself as a future claim," and yearly rather than three-year physicals, since too many conditions "which could become serious disease problems and possible compensation liabilities" could develop in between. He described how a plant doctor could tell the industrial relations manager that a man should have no dust exposure "without disclosing the reason unless it is an occupational disease," by coding the result "B-no dust," while the doctor told the worker himself the exact reasons. Jackson spoke about labeling laws, compensation costs and influencing compensation legislation, and set goals for cutting injuries in 1956.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

J-M Industrial Relations Managers Meeting, Hot Springs, Virginia, 11/28-12/2/55. Dr. K.W. Smith presented a talk on the subject of Johns-Manville's health program.

About this copy

This is document 100 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-000885 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-000903.