Manufacturing Chemists' Association, Warning Labels: Manual L-1, Fourth Revision (1956)

Fifteen pages from Warning Labels: A Guide for the Preparation of Warning Labels for Hazardous Chemicals, Manual L-1, fourth revision, 1956, published by the Manufacturing Chemists' Association, a chemical industry trade group, and stamped as a publisher's gift copy received September 10, 1957. The pages include the contents, the introduction, the table of standard hazard and precaution statements, and sample labels. For a "Dust Form Hazardous from Contact" the table gives the statements "Hazardous (Harmful) Dust" and "Harmful if Inhaled," with precautions such as "Do not breathe dust."

What it shows

The manual set out the chemical industry's own model for warning labels in the 1950s. It shows that a standard form of words for products that give off harmful dust was available to manufacturers well before asbestos products carried warnings.

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 Warning Labels: A Guide for the Preparation of Warning Labels for Hazardous Chemicals, published by the Manufacturing Chemists' Association, Inc., Washington D.C., 4th revision, 1956. The booklet focuses on the labelling of products containing hazardous chemicals, but does suggest a label for dust-producing products. The authors state that the warning labels suggested in the booklet should be used in addition to, or in combination with, any label required by law.

Related documents

• Manufacturing Chemists' Association, Guide to Precautionary Labeling of Hazardous Chemicals: Manual L-1, Sixth Edition (1961)

About this copy

This is document 792 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-004162 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-004176.