H. M. Jackson to O. B. Westmont on the Lompoc Housekeeping Procedures Manual (1953)

A short memo of September 14, 1953, from Johns-Manville's General Headquarters to O. B. Westmont at the Lompoc, California, diatomaceous earth plant, answering his letter of August 20 about the plant's new housekeeping procedures manual. The writer praised the manual as "an excellent job" and saw "no objection to providing both the Union and the U. S. P. H. S. with copies," expecting only commendation from both. He added that whatever the engineering controls, operator function was a key point in keeping housekeeping standards.

In Johns-Manville's chronology

Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows:

Housekeeping procedures manual has been prepared by the Lompoc plant. Jackson okays providing the Union and USPHS with copies of it on 9/14/53. Jackson suggests that notations in the manual indicating that various stations are to be swept up should be deleted and that the use of vacuum cleaners should be standard.