ILO Guide to Safety and Health in Dock Work on Labeling, and the British Asbestos Products Labelling Scheme, for the Asbestos International Association (1978)

Twelve pages marked for agenda item 6 of the eighth Executive Committee meeting of the Asbestos International Association, the industry's worldwide trade body, on July 7, 1978, from the files of J. H. Marsh of Raybestos-Manhattan. They are the cover and the section on labeling dangerous goods (pages 211 to 217) from the International Labour Office's "Guide to Safety and Health in Dock Work" (Geneva, 1976), showing the ILO's danger symbols, including the skull and crossbones for "Danger of poisoning," and the United Nations transport labels. With them is the British industry's "Asbestos Products Labelling Scheme" leaflet, issued by the Asbestos Information Committee in August 1976, with its "a" label: "Take care with asbestos. Warning: Breathing asbestos dust can damage health. Observe the safety rules."

What it shows

The pages were gathered as the international industry debated how asbestos would be labeled in Europe, and they set the official hazard symbols beside the milder label the British industry had adopted for itself. The British leaflet listed the products to be labeled, from asbestos cloth and pipe insulation to "housewives' asbestos oven gloves," and exempted products where the fiber was bonded so it "will not release asbestos fibres which would constitute a possible danger to health." The same subject runs through Sir Neville Stack's letter of October 1978.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Booklet entitled Guide to Safety and Health in Dock Work, prepared by the A.Int.A., August 1976.

Related documents

• Sir Neville Stack to J. H. Marsh on a European Label for Asbestos (1978)

About this copy

This is document 721 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-002923 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-002934.