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A booklet of work practice recommendations for dust control when cutting and fabricating asbestos-cement and similar sheet products with shop and portable tools. It summarizes the OSHA asbestos standard, covers housekeeping, training, waste disposal and personal hygiene, and gives sketches of dust-control hoods for saws, shapers, drills and sanders. Appendices reproduce the OSHA standard and the NIOSH membrane filter fiber-counting method (November 1975).
- Author
- Asbestos Information Association/North America, Standards and Technical Committee (booklet preparers)
- Published by
- Asbestos Information Association/North America
- Series
- Union Carbide documents, UC-112
- Number
- Bates A17360 to A17402
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 15388 · asbestosclaims.law/library/15388
- Rights
- A document from asbestos litigation, published for research and historical study.
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What the document holds
- Page 1: Cover: Recommended Work Practices, Shop and Field Fabrication of Asbestos Sheet Products, with plaintiff's exhibit UC-112 sticker
- Page 2: Table of contents
- Page 3: Introduction (OSHA background, AIA/NA committee, October 1975 proposed revision)
- Page 4: Products and operations covered (partly garbled)
- Pages 5-7: Summary of OSHA Asbestos Standard
- Pages 7-9: General recommendations: exhaust and dust collection, housekeeping, training, waste disposal
- Page 9: Specific recommendations for sheet products
- Pages 10-11: Personal hygiene
- Pages 11-18: Dust-control sketches for shop and portable tools (saws, shaper, drill, sanders, cutting box)
- Pages 18-26: Appendix A: OSHA asbestos standard, Federal Register text (29 CFR 1910.1001)
- Pages 27-39: Appendix B: USPHS/NIOSH Membrane Filter Method for Evaluating Airborne Asbestos Fibers (Leidel, Bayer, Zumwalde, Nov. 1975)
- Pages 40-45: Appendix C: vacuum cleaning stations sketch and equipment source list; drawings, largely illegible
- Page 46: Back cover: AIA/NA address and ordering information
People and organizations
From Asbestos Information Association/North America, Standards and Technical Committee (booklet preparers).
- Asbestos Information Association/North America (its organization)
- NIOSH (named)
- OSHA (named)
- Secretary of Labor (named)
Related pages
Pages on our site about what this document covers: Dust Control · NIOSH · OSHA · OSHA Asbestos Standard.
About this copy
This is document UC-112 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 46 pages. Production numbers A17360 to A17402.
Cite this document
“Asbestos Information Association/North America, Recommended Work Practices: Shop and Field Fabrication of Asbestos Sheet Products.” Union Carbide documents, UC-112, Bates A17360 to A17402. Asbestos Information Association/North America. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 15388. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/15388.
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