Raybestos-Manhattan Statement on Preventing Asbestos-Related Disease After the HEW Warning (1978)

A one-page Raybestos-Manhattan statement dated April 28, 1978, prepared "For communication to employees or members of the news media if deemed advisable." It answered press and television reports of a statement by Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, that millions of former World War II shipyard workers may be at risk of asbestos-related disease. The statement said wartime ship construction exposure "is totally unlike exposure in manufacturing operations where extensive dust control systems have been installed," and that "In the 1930's the company pioneered in the development of dust control systems."

In Johns-Manville's index

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

One-page document entitled "Statement of the Company's Position Concerning the Prevention of Asbestos-Related Disease (For Communication to Employees or Members of the News Media if Deemed Advisable)," prepared by R-M, 4/28/78. Document was prepared in response to a statement issued by Joseph A. Califano, Jr. (Secretary of HEW) on April 26, 1978 concerning the risk of lung cancer and other serious diseases to workers who have been heavily exposed to asbestos dust. Califano suggested that millions of former shipyard workers, exposed to asbestos dust during World War II, may be at risk.

Related documents

• Asbestos Information Association Statement on the HEW Asbestos Warning Program (1978)

About this copy

This is document 675 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-002352 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-002352.