Edmund M. Fenner (AIA Standards and Technical Committee) to Harry B. Rhodes, Union Carbide, Transmitting Draft Asbestos Work Practices and OSHA Comments, with Rhodes's May 24 Letter (1974)

Cover letter from AIA/North America's Standards and Technical Committee chairman to Union Carbide's Harry Rhodes, thanking him for his May 22 and 24 letters and enclosing the final draft of AIA's proposed comments to OSHA. The package holds a memo to the committee, four draft 'Suggested Asbestos Industry Work Practices', suggested clarifications of the OSHA asbestos dust standard, Rhodes's May 24, 1974 letter proposing nonmandatory work practices, and his comments on the drafts.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Fenner letter to H. B. Rhodes, June 10, 1974, thanking him for his May 22 and 24 letters and enclosing the final draft
• Page 2: Fenner memo to the Standards and Technical Committee on the revised OSHA asbestos standard, June 10, 1974, with cc to R. H. Mereness and John Marsh
• Pages 3-7: Draft AIA 'Suggested Asbestos Industry Work Practices': unloading and storing bagged fiber, introducing fiber into manufacturing, dust and scrap removal, housekeeping
• Pages 8-14: AIA suggestions for clarification of the OSHA occupational safety and health standard for exposure to asbestos dust (29 CFR 1910.93a)
• Pages 15-16: H. B. Rhodes (Union Carbide, Mining & Metals Division) letter to E. M. Fenner, May 24, 1974, proposing nonmandatory OSHA-approved work practices
• Page 17: Rhodes's lettered comments on the draft work practice for unloading and storing bagged asbestos fiber

People and organizations

From Edmund M. Fenner (Chairman, Standards and Technical Committee, Asbestos Information Association/North America) to Harry B. Rhodes (Area Manager, Marketing & Technology, Union Carbide Corp., Niagara Falls, N.Y.); Standards and Technical Committee (Asbestos Information Association/North America (addressee of the page 2 memo)).

• Edmund M. Fenner (author)
• Harrison B. Rhodes (recipient)
• Asbestos Information Association/North America (its organization)
• American National Standards Institute (named)
• Mining and Metals Division (named)
• OSHA (named)
• Raybestos-Manhattan (named)
• Standards and Technical Committee (named)
• Union Carbide Corporation (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: New York Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · OSHA · Raybestos-Manhattan.

About this copy

This is document UC-855 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 17 pages. Production numbers A25000 to A25016.