Asbestos Information Association/North America File on the Third Annual Industry-Government Conference, Sept. 8-9, 1976 (1976)

File of Asbestos Information Association/North America papers on its Third Annual Industry-Government Conference (Sept. 8-9, 1976, Arlington, Va.). It includes a cover memo, an attendance list, speaker invitation and confirmation letters, advance programs, a Sept. 8 memo of program notes with speaker introductions for Union Carbide's William Thurber and others, and handwritten schedule notes. The conference covered asbestos dust monitoring, dust control, OSHA standards and asbestos health.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Mereness memo to H. B. Rhodes and I. Weaver (25 Aug 1976) asking for biographical data and prepared material for the conference proceedings
• Pages 2-6: Attendance list, Third Annual Industry-Government Conference, Sept. 8-9, 1976
• Page 7: Letter from Harrison B. Rhodes to Ralph Zumwalde (NIOSH) confirming him as a monitoring panel speaker (date partly illegible in OCR)
• Page 8: Letter from Harrison B. Rhodes to Stanford K. Christian (Bendix), July 30, 1976, confirming him as a monitoring panel speaker
• Page 9: Letter from Alex A. Cross (International Asbestos Information Conference Standing Committee) to R. H. Mereness, 27 July 1976, accepting the invitation to speak
• Pages 10-11: Mereness memo to AIA members, 29 July 1976, giving notice of the board meeting, annual meeting and conference
• Pages 12-13: Advance program for the conference
• Pages 14-15: Letter from Mereness to Robert Hughes (NIOSH), 29 July 1976, inviting him to the dust control panel
• Page 16: Letter from Mereness to Dr. Morton Corn (OSHA), 14 July 1976, about Grover Wrenn representing OSHA
• Pages 17-18: Letter from Mereness to Jack Sheehan (United Steelworkers), 21 July 1976, about his speaking slot
• Page 19: Handwritten program schedule notes
• Page 20: Mereness business card
• Pages 21-22: Letter from I. H. Weaver to William E. Shoemaker (NIOSH), Aug. 23, 1976, on preparing for the dust control panel
• Pages 23-27: Final program pages for Sept. 9 and related program sheets (pages 24-26 have mirror-image or garbled OCR)
• Pages 28-39: Mereness memo to Mr. Dougherty and Mr. Thurber, Sept. 8, 1976, with program notes and speaker introductions, handwritten annotations
• Page 40: Annotated copy of the advance program
• Pages 41-55: Not provided for cataloging
• Pages 56-57: Pages with only Bates numbers UCC 010853 and UCC 010854 in the OCR
• Pages 58-60: Handwritten and typed schedule notes for Sept. 8-9

People and organizations

From R. H. Mereness (Executive Director, Asbestos Information Association/North America) to Dr. H. B. Rhodes (Union Carbide Corp.; cover memo addressee); Mr. I. Weaver (Raybestos-Manhattan; cover memo addressee).

• Robert H. Mereness (author)
• Harrison B. Rhodes (recipient)
• Asbestos Information Association/North America (its organization)
• Atlas Asbestos Company (Coalinga, California) (named)
• Bendix Corporation (named)
• Cadwalader (named)
• Calaveras Asbestos Ltd (named)
• Certain-Teed Products Corp (named)
• Clayton Environmental Consultants (named)
• Consumer Product Safety Commission (named)
• Cyprus Industrial Minerals Company (named)
• EPA (named)
• Flintkote (named)
• Food and Drug Administration (named)
• GAF Corporation (named)
• Johns-Manville (named)
• NIOSH (named)
• North American Asbestos Corporation (named)
• OSHA (named)
• Raybestos-Manhattan (named)
• The Faulkner Hospital (named)
• Tulane University (named)
• U.S. Bureau of Mines (named)
• Union Carbide Corporation (named)
• United Steelworkers (named)
• University of Pittsburgh (named)
• Vermont Asbestos Group (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Bendix Corporation · Dust Control · EPA · Johns-Manville · NIOSH · OSHA · OSHA Asbestos Standard · Raybestos-Manhattan · U.S. Bureau of Mines · Washington DC Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage.

About this copy

This is document UC-4241 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 60 pages. Production numbers UCC 010798 to UCC 010856.