Union Carbide Corporate Occupational Health Manual: Policies, Exposure Standards List and Committee Roster (1980s)

Compilation of excerpts from Union Carbide's Corporate Occupational Health Manual, including the table of contents, the exposure standards policy for the U.S. and Puerto Rico, the Health, Safety and Environmental Affairs Department organization, and the Internal Exposure Standards List (asbestos is listed as a human carcinogen). It also includes corporate policies on occupational health, occupational medicine and compliance, the respiratory protection policy, and the General Occupational Health Committee roster. Pages 41-85 were not provided.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Exhibit cover sheet with handwritten Bates range A22052-A22249 and plaintiff's exhibit stamp
• Page 2: Manual table of contents, page 2 of 2 (4/16/84)
• Pages 3-6: Policy: Exposure Standards - U.S. and Puerto Rico (8/26/82; last page dated 9/15/83)
• Pages 7-8: Information/Guidelines: Organization/Duties of the Corporate Health, Safety and Environmental Affairs Department (10/2/80)
• Pages 9-28: Union Carbide Internal Exposure Standards List (pages 1-19 plus footnotes), including an asbestos entry
• Pages 29-30: Manual table of contents (4/16/84), repeated
• Pages 31-33: Corporate Policy 3.5.6, Occupational Health (3/31/78)
• Pages 34-39: Corporate Policy 2.36, Occupational Medicine (3/1/83)
• Page 40: Corporate Policy 3.5.1, Health, Safety and Environmental Laws and Regulations - Compliance and Enforcement (3/1/81), first page
• Pages 41-85: Not sent
• Page 86: Occupational Medicine policy, page 6 (references), duplicate
• Page 87: Policy: Respiratory Protection (8/26/82)
• Page 88: Garbled or rotated form page, likely a job exposure summary table; unreadable in OCR
• Pages 89-90: General Occupational Health Committee function and member roster

People and organizations

From Union Carbide Corporate Health, Safety and Environmental Affairs Department (issuer of the manual (advice and service contact)).

• Safety and Environmental Affairs Department (its organization)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• ACGIH (named)
• Corporate Communications Department (named)
• General Occupational Health Committee (named)
• Law Department (named)
• National Bureau of Standards (named)
• NIOSH (named)
• OSHA (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: NIOSH · OSHA.

About this copy

This is document UC-52 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 90 pages. Production numbers A22052 to A22249.