Insulation Hygiene Progress Reports, Vol. 4, No. 4, Convention Issue: Insulators' Health Problem and the IIHRP Panel Exhibit (Winter 1972)

Winter 1972 issue of a newsletter from the Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program reporting on the 22nd Convention of the insulators' union. It contains Duncan Holaday's article on the union's mortality study (excess deaths from cancer, asbestosis and mesothelioma), a call for action, and a reproduction of the program's 14-panel exhibit covering mortality tables, X-rays, smoking, dust counting, work practices and respirators. unreviewed

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Duncan A. Holaday. "A Gloomy Picture." Insulation Hygiene Progress Reports 4(4), 1972.

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What the document holds

• Pages 1-2: Newsletter text: 'Insulators' Health Problem Worst in U.S.', Holaday's 'A Gloomy Picture', 'A Call For Action', masthead, program purposes, In Memoriam
• Pages 3-6: Exhibit panels: program title panel, staff biographies, laboratory equipment, asbestos fibers and fibrils
• Page 7: Exhibit panel: normal, minimal and extensive asbestosis chest X-rays with explanatory text
• Pages 8-10: Exhibit panels: key to local unions, territorial map, and a page printed mirrored/inverted (apparently a panel on lung cancer or mesothelioma)
• Page 11: Exhibit panels: mortality statistics tables for Locals 12 and 32 and for all union members, 1967-1971, with comments
• Page 12: Exhibit panel: cigarette smoking and lung cancer among asbestos workers
• Page 13: Exhibit panel: dust counting and the asbestos standard
• Pages 14-15: Exhibit panels: poor work practices and good work practices photographs with captions
• Page 16: Exhibit panel: respirator types and use levels

People and organizations

From Duncan A. Holaday (author of 'A Gloomy Picture'); W. J. Nicholson, Ph.D. (Editor).

• W. J. Nicholson (author)
• American Cancer Society (named)
• Environmental Sciences Laboratory (named)
• Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program (named)
• International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers (named)
• Johns-Manville (named)
• NIOSH (named)
• OSHA (named)

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Pages on our site about what this document covers: Asbestos Exposure in Insulators and Insulation Workers · Johns-Manville · Mesothelioma: What It Is, How It's Diagnosed, and How It's Treated · NIOSH · OSHA · What is asbestosis.

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