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An industry booklet of recommended work practices for plants that mold and fabricate asbestos-containing plastic products. It summarizes the OSHA asbestos standard and gives general and specific recommendations on dust control, housekeeping, training, waste disposal and personal hygiene. Appendices reproduce the OSHA standard, the USPHS/NIOSH membrane filter fiber-counting method, and sketches of a vacuum cleaning station and a bag opening station.
- Author
- Asbestos Information Association/North America (Standards and Technical Committee)
- Published by
- Asbestos Information Association/North America
- Series
- Union Carbide documents, UC-116
- Number
- Bates A17527 to A17564
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 15390 · asbestosclaims.law/library/15390
- 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, Molding and Fabrication of Asbestos-Containing Plastic Products (AIA/NA)
- Page 2: Table of contents
- Pages 3-10: AIA/NA work practices text: introduction, processes and products, summary of OSHA standard, general and specific recommendations, personal hygiene
- Pages 11-18: Appendix A: OSHA Standard for Exposure to Asbestos Dust (29 CFR 1910.1001) with preamble
- Pages 19-31: Appendix B: USPHS/NIOSH Membrane Filter Method for Evaluating Airborne Asbestos Fibers (Leidel, Bayer, Zumwalde, November 1975)
- Page 32: Sources of sampling equipment cited in Appendix B
- Pages 33-37: Appendix C: vacuum cleaning stations sketch and drawings (mostly illegible in OCR)
- Page 38: Appendix D: asbestos fiber bag opening station drawing
- Page 39: Back cover: AIA/NA address and availability of additional copies
People and organizations
From Asbestos Information Association/North America (Standards and Technical Committee).
- Asbestos Information Association/North America (its organization)
- NIOSH (named)
- OSHA (named)
- Secretary of Labor (named)
- Standards and Technical Committee of the Asbestos Information Association/North America (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-116 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 39 pages. Production numbers A17527 to A17564.
Cite this document
Asbestos Information Association/North America (Standards and Technical Committee). “Asbestos Information Association/North America, Recommended Work Practices: Molding and Fabrication of Asbestos-Containing Plastic Products (c. 1975-1976).” Union Carbide documents, UC-116, Bates A17527 to A17564. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 15390. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/15390.
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