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An eight-page booklet, "Recommended Practices for Fabricating, Handling and Applying Asbestos-Cement Products in the Building and Construction Industries," prepared by the Health and Safety Council of the Asbestos Cement Products Association in New York and copyrighted 1970. It gives short rules on housekeeping, shipping and storage, cutting and drilling, and respirators, and sums up: keep dust to a minimum, wear U.S. Bureau of Mines approved respirators when dust is above the allowable limits, and keep the job clean. A boxed statement on the contents page reads: "Asbestos-cement products, in place and under normal use, present no known health risk to the user or general public."
- Published by
- Asbestos Cement Products Association
- Date
- 1970
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 24430 · asbestosclaims.law/library/24430
- Rights
- Republished under fair use for health and safety: it identifies asbestos-containing products. The company no longer makes or sells them.
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The booklet was the asbestos-cement industry's advice to contractors and installers. It speaks only of "dust" and "threshold limits" and never says what the dust can do to the lungs: asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma are not mentioned. Respirators are recommended for cutting, for work in confined spaces and for clean-up.
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“Asbestos Cement Products Association, Recommended Practices for Fabricating, Handling and Applying Asbestos-Cement Products.” 1970. Asbestos Cement Products Association. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 24430. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/24430.
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