W. A. Roquet Note to Dick on the Council on Economic Priorities Chemical Industry Safety Study, with Shell Memo and CEP Proposal (1978)

A handwritten note from W. A. Roquet to "Dick" dated 12/11/78 sits on top of a Shell Oil Company memo of December 5, 1978 from J. L. Rivard to H. L. Kusnetz. The memo forwards a Council on Economic Priorities proposal (revised September 1978) to study occupational safety and health at the eight largest U.S. chemical companies, a group that includes Union Carbide. In the note, Roquet says he dislikes the study and that its use of OSHA form 103 survey data is full of holes. He also says it could be a trap. The Shell memo says the study will be strongly biased by the project director's union affiliation and the advisory board.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Handwritten note from W. A. Roquet to Dick, 12/11/78, criticizing the CEP study
• Page 2: Shell Oil Company memo, J. L. Rivard to H. L. Kusnetz, December 5, 1978, forwarding the CEP proposal
• Pages 3-5: CEP cover page, description of CEP and its work, and a list of supporters (pages 4-5 are upside-down and garbled in the OCR)
• Pages 6-8: CEP summary of the proposed study: goal, need, criteria, data sources, companies studied, funding and author
• Pages 9-45: Full CEP proposal, 'A Proposal to Study Occupational Safety and Health in the Chemical Industry,' revised September 1978, by Matt Meyers. It includes the OSHA background, sample OSHA forms 100, 101, 102 and 1, the work plan, advisory board, biography, footnotes and bibliography. Page 41 was not sent.

People and organizations

From W. A. Roquet (writer of the handwritten note; title not shown); J. L. Rivard (Shell Oil Company, author of the cover memo); Matt Meyers (author and project director of the CEP proposal) to Dick (surname and title not shown); H. L. Kusnetz (recipient of the Shell memo).

• Matt Meyers (author)
• C. H. Dick (recipient)
• Council on Economic Priorities (named)
• ORC (named)
• OSHA (named)
• Shell Oil Co. (named)
• Union Carbide Corporation (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: OSHA.

About this copy

This is document UC-2062 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 46 pages. Production numbers LAM 025358 to ABS-031785.