Minimum Requirements for Safety and Industrial Health in Contract Shipyards (1943)

Standards for shipyards building ships for the Navy and the Maritime Commission, approved by the Navy in January 1943 and by the Commission on February 9, 1943, and printed by the Government Printing Office with a covering letter signed by Navy Secretary Frank Knox and Commission chairman Emory S. Land. They grew out of the Chicago conference of December 1942. The booklet sets out requirements for medical departments, records, safety organization and inspection, and a guide to preventing industrial disease. Its asbestosis section covers handling, sawing, cutting and molding asbestos and welding rod salvage, and calls for segregating dusty work, hoods with air velocities of 100 feet per minute or special respirators, and periodic medical examination.