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R. W. Cope Memo Forwarding NIOSH Notice to Respirator Manufacturers and Norton Memo on Air-Purifying Respirators for Asbestos

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An internal correspondence cover memo from R. W. Cope forwards an attachment to a distribution list. The attachment is a NIOSH 'Notice to All Respirator Manufacturers' on the limits of air-purifying respirators against asbestos and other carcinogens. It is followed by a Norton product manager's memo to users of its air-purifying respirators in asbestos environments, and one further page that could not be read.

Author
R. W. Cope (author of the internal cover memo); John C. Gillespie (Product Manager, Norton (as read from the OCR)); Jon R. May, Ph.D. (Special Assistant to the Director, NIOSH, for Testing and Certification)
Series
Union Carbide documents, UC-1709
Number
Bates BRG 0341 to BRG 0347
Library no.
ACL Doc 16790 · asbestosclaims.law/library/16790
Rights
A document from asbestos litigation, published for research and historical study.

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What the document holds

  • Page 6: Internal correspondence cover memo from R. W. Cope forwarding the attachment to a copy list (BRG 0341)
  • Pages 1-2: NIOSH (Public Health Service) 'Notice to All Respirator Manufacturers' signed by Jon R. May, Ph.D., on respirators used against asbestos and other carcinogens (BRG 0343-0344)
  • Pages 3-4: Memo from John C. Gillespie, Norton product manager, to users of air-purifying respirators in asbestos environments (BRG 0345-0346)
  • Page 5: Further page, mostly unreadable in OCR, possibly part of the Norton material (BRG 0347)
  • Page 7: Page with no usable OCR and no readable Bates number

People and organizations

From R. W. Cope (author of the internal cover memo); John C. Gillespie (Product Manager, Norton (as read from the OCR)); Jon R. May, Ph.D. (Special Assistant to the Director, NIOSH, for Testing and Certification) to Brown, Everett, Hanlon, Hart, McDaniel, Ondocsin, Youngblood (copy list on the cover memo, first names not shown); All respirator manufacturers (addressees of the NIOSH notice); Users of air-purifying respirators in asbestos environments (addressees of the Norton memo).

Pages on our site about what this document covers: NIOSH · OSHA.

About this copy

This is document UC-1709 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 7 pages. Production numbers BRG 0341 to BRG 0347.

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R. W. Cope (author of the internal cover memo), John C. Gillespie (Product Manager, Norton (as read from the OCR)), Jon R. May, Ph.D. (Special Assistant to the Director, NIOSH, for Testing and Certification). “R. W. Cope Memo Forwarding NIOSH Notice to Respirator Manufacturers and Norton Memo on Air-Purifying Respirators for Asbestos.” Union Carbide documents, UC-1709, Bates BRG 0341 to BRG 0347. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 16790. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/16790.

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