Ron Ritchie to J. B. Leverton and R. J. Taylor Forwarding OSHA Jobsite Information Survey Correspondence (1979)

Cover memo from Ron Ritchie passing along correspondence about OSHA Jobsite Information Surveys, with an Employee Relations memo from R. V. Welty (Oct. 1, 1979) and a Sept. 21, 1979 letter from Law Department attorney John W. Whittlesey to J. B. Browning. Whittlesey advised that plants had no legal requirement to answer such a survey and should decline if an OSHA inspector asked. The exhibit attaches the survey form, which asks about plant operations, air monitoring, medical programs, recordkeeping, training, hygiene, protective equipment and engineering controls, plus a distribution list.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Memo from Ron Ritchie to J. B. Leverton and R. J. Taylor, October 3, 1979, forwarding the OSHA Jobsite Information Survey correspondence
• Page 2: Chemicals and Plastics internal correspondence from R. V. Welty, Employee Relations, October 1, 1979, transmitting the Whittlesey letter
• Page 3: Letter from John W. Whittlesey, Law Department, to J. B. Browning, September 21, 1979, advising that plants decline to complete the OSHA survey
• Pages 4-5: OSHA Jobsite Information Survey questionnaire (plant operations, monitoring, medical program, recordkeeping, training, hygiene, protective equipment, controls, housekeeping)
• Page 6: Distribution list of names

People and organizations

From Ron Ritchie to J. B. Leverton; R. J. Taylor.

• Ron Ritchie (author)
• J. B. Leverton (recipient)
• R. J. Taylor (recipient)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• Law Department (named)
• OSHA (named)
• Safety and Environmental Affairs Department (named)
• SHARE Organization (named)

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About this copy

This is document UC-1192 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 6 pages. Production numbers UCTC 21166 to UCTC 21171.