Robert H. Mereness

Executive director of the Asbestos Information Association/North America, the U.S. and Canadian industry's trade group, 1973–1978; signed board and committee minutes, sent members memos on OSHA and HEW actions, and objected to a Crown Zellerbach asbestos-substitute ad.

Robert H. Mereness appears in 8 documents in our library and 34 Union Carbide documents (1973–1978). The documents describe Robert H. Mereness as Executive Director at Asbestos Information Association/North America.

Titles in the documents

How documents describe Robert H. Mereness, each as the documents state it, with how many say so and the years they span. We record what the documents say and don't choose between them.

• Executive Director at Asbestos Information Association/North America, 1973–1977, in 20 documents
• Executive Director, 1974–1978, in 7 documents

In our library

8 documents in our library name Robert H. Mereness, by collection.

Motley 1000 (8)

• Asbestos Information Association Board of Directors Minutes on a Captive Insurance Company (1976)
• Asbestos Information Association Executive Committee Minutes on the Legal-Medical Research Program (1976)
• Asbestos Information Association Board of Directors Minutes on the State of the Art Defense (1977)
• Asbestos Information Association Executive Committee Minutes on Litigation Files, Expert Witnesses and a Captive Insurer (1977)
• R. H. Mereness and D. Poutiatine to C. R. Dahl on Crown Zellerbach's "Adios Asbestos" Ad (1977)
• Asbestos Information Association Technical Committee Papers and Draft Letter Selling the Enterline Study (1978)
• D. M. Kelleher to R. H. Mereness Sending Dr. Paul Kotin's Letter on J-M's Asbestos-Health Position (1978) (recipient)
• R. H. Mereness to Asbestos Information Association Members on HEW's Asbestos Awareness Campaign (1978)

In the Union Carbide documents

Robert H. Mereness is named in 34 Union Carbide documents dated 1973 to 1978 (20 as author, 13 as recipient, 2 copied), from asbestos lawsuits over Union Carbide's Calidria asbestos. 33 of them are published in our collection.

• Asbestos Information Association Memorandum to Members on FDA Proposed Rulemaking 'Asbestos Particles in Food and Drugs', with Federal Register Notice and Union Carbide Asbestos Correspondence (1973) UC-2194
• W. C. Thurber to K. S. Lane, J. L. Myers and P. J. Morgan on FDA Proposed Rulemaking on Asbestos Particles in Food and Drugs, with AIA Memo and Federal Register Notice (1973) UC-77
• Asbestos Information Association Letters to the Editors of Consumers Research (1974) and The Wall Street Journal (1972) UC-1642
• R. H. Mereness (Asbestos Information Association) to the Editor of Time on the 'Death from Dust' Article (1974) UC-3139
• IOEH Newsletter No. 37 from P. V. Pelnar, with McGill Report on Health Surveillance in Asbestos Workers (1974) UC-240 (recipient)
• Harry R. Mason (NY Board of Standards and Appeals) to R. H. Mereness on Proposed Asbestos Amendment to Industrial Code Rule 12 (1974) UC-3505 (recipient)
• Table of U.S. Asbestos Producers by Mine, Fiber Type and Estimated Annual Production (1974) UC-2646 (recipient)
• R. H. Mereness to AIA Members Transmitting Dr. Irving J. Selikoff's Answers to Thirteen Questions (1974) Union Carbide 287
• R. H. Mereness to AIA Members forwarding Dr. Irving J. Selikoff's Answers to Thirteen Questions (1974) UC-1344
• W. C. Thurber Memo on Strategy for Proposed New York State Asbestos Legislation, with April 1974 Letter to J. L. Myers and R. H. Mereness and Copy of Assembly Bill (1974) UC-3500 (recipient)
• H. B. Rhodes to R. H. Mereness (AIA/NA) Enclosing Union Carbide Comments on Proposed EPA Asbestos Revisions (1974) UC-2972 (recipient)
• N. J. Hearn to W. C. Thurber on California Asbestos Spraying Law Amendments, with Related Thurber, Zupa and Rhodes Letters and Draft Exemption Letter (1975) UC-4200 (recipient)
• R. H. Mereness (Asbestos Information Association) to Members Transmitting FDA Rule on Asbestos-Form Particles in Parenteral Drugs, with Federal Register Excerpt (1975) UC-3706
• John J. Welsh, M.D., to W. C. Thurber on the AIA Draft Pamphlet 'Asbestos in Water', with the AIA Transmittal Memo and Draft (1975) UC-952
• J. H. Marsh to N. Hendry and Others on the XVIII International Congress on Occupational Health, Brighton (1975) UC-953 (recipient)
• Asbestos Information Association/North America File on the Third Annual Industry-Government Conference, Sept. 8-9, 1976 (1976) UC-4241
• Harrison B. Rhodes to Robert H. Mereness (Asbestos Information Association/NA) on OSHA Medical Examination Requirements and Dr. Weill's Surveillance Study (1976) UC-2385 (recipient)
• H. B. Rhodes to G. G. Gabrielson, Jr. and J. Hebb on the Roy F. Weston, Inc. Asbestos Report of February 3, 1976, with Page-by-Page Commentary (1976) UC-2384 (copied)
• R. H. Mereness (Asbestos Information Association) to Participants on Task Force Status and Forwarding of Hans Weill, M.D., Comments on the Proposed OSHA Asbestos Standard, with Weill Statement (1976) UC-857
• R. H. Mereness (Asbestos Information Association) to Participants in Industry Response to OSHA Asbestos Proposal, Forwarding Dr. Hans Weill's Statement (1976) UC-3926
• R. H. Mereness (Asbestos Information Association) to Members on OSHA Retention of Exposure Monitoring Records, with Federal Register Notice (1976) UC-856
• R. H. Mereness to AIA Executive Committee Forwarding Affidavit in Shoup v. Johns-Manville et al. (1976) UC-1368
• H. B. Rhodes to R. H. Mereness Forwarding Mt. Sinai Paper on Biological Effects of Short Fibers, with Mary S. Wolff's Transmittal and the Langer et al. Manuscript on Milled Calidria Chrysotile (1976) UC-2992 (recipient)
• R. H. Mereness (Asbestos Information Association) to CPSC Chairman S. John Byington on the Petition to Ban Asbestos Patching Compounds (1976) UC-1560
• R. H. Mereness (Asbestos Information Association) to OSHA Docket Officer, Transmitting TBA Industrial Products Statement and Tables on English Asbestos Factory Cohort (1976) UC-1345
• H. B. Rhodes to R. H. Mereness Transmitting Draft Progress Report of the AIA/NA Ad Hoc Committee on Construction, with Related AIA/NA Memos (1976) UC-4105 (recipient)
• Asbestos Information Association/North America Statement on the NIOSH Document on Health Effects of Occupational Exposure to Asbestos (1977) UC-1603
• John L. Myers to R. H. Mereness on a Reporter's Inquiry About Asbestos in Newsprint and the ANPA–Mt. Sinai/NIOSH Dispute (1977) UC-2513 (recipient)
• Hans Weill, M.D., to Wendell B. Alcorn, Jr., on the Medical Literature Linking Asbestos and Lung Cancer (1977) UC-900 (copied)
• R. H. Mereness (Asbestos Information Association) to Members: Report of State Initiatives for Asbestos Regulation as of December 1, 1977 (1977) UC-3337
• R. H. Mereness (Asbestos Information Association) to Executive Committee Forwarding Dr. Enterline's Editorial 'Asbestos and Cancer -- the International Lag' (1978) UC-3664
• Table of United States Asbestos Producers, Mines, Estimated Production and Fiber Type, with Copies-to List UC-943 (recipient)
• Compilation: S. Holmes Paper 20 on Asbestos Threshold Limit Values (Lyon, 1972) with Asbestos Information Association and Bureau of Mines Letters on Coal Mine Asbestos Standards (1972-1974) UC-4357

Names in the documents

The spellings documents use for Robert H. Mereness, OCR misreadings included, so a search for any of them finds this page: R. H. Mereness · Mr. R. H. Mereness · Mr. Robert H. Mereness · Mr. R.H. Mereness · Robert Mereness.

Where this comes from

This page brings together every document in our library that names Robert H. Mereness, across collections. Titles and affiliations are taken from the documents themselves.