Asbestos International Association Memorandum Circulating the Orebro Railway Workshop Cohort Study and Kevin Browne's Comments (1984)

Packet that begins with a 4 September 1984 Asbestos International Association memorandum sending the Medical Advisory Panel an English translation of the Ohlson et al. cohort mortality study of Orebro railway workshop workers, together with Kevin Browne's comments. It also holds Browne's 28 August 1984 memo to Sir Neville Stack, the translated study text and tables, and a 14 September 1984 AIA memo enclosing an information memorandum on smoking and the workplace.

What the document holds

• Page 1: AIA Director General memorandum of 4 September 1984 to the Medical Advisory Panel enclosing the Orebro study translation and Dr K. Browne's comments
• Page 2: Cape Industries memo, Kevin Browne to Sir Neville Stack, 28 August 1984, commenting on the Orebro study
• Pages 3-9: English translation of parts of the Ohlson, Klaesson and Hogstedt cohort study: title page, resume, background, discussion and conclusion
• Pages 10-11: Figures: distribution of length of employment; flow chart for tracing the study population
• Pages 12-20: Tables 1-9: dust points and fibre contents, and mortality and causes of death by exposure, latency and employment period (some pages badly garbled in OCR)
• Page 21: AIA memorandum of 14 September 1984 to Member Associations, Smoking and the Workplace
• Page 22: AIA Information Memorandum (AIM) No. 2/83, Smoking and the Workplace
• Pages 23-25: Further copies of the tables of the study (Table 8 and Table 9 appear again)

People and organizations

From Director General (Director General, Asbestos International Association) to Medical Advisory Panel (Asbestos International Association).

• Director General (author)
• Medical Advisory Panel (recipient)
• Asbestos International Association (its organization)
• Cape Industries PLC (named)

About this copy

This is document UC-3327 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 25 pages. Production numbers UCC 000813 to UCC 000837.