263 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 7 of 14
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Determinants of respiratory symptoms in insulation workers exposed to asbestos and synthetic mineral fibres
…questionnaire survey studied Quebec insulation workers, whose trade involved asbestos and, more recently, synthetic mineral fibres. Of 644 union insulators, 558 replied; 21 receiving asbestosis compensation were excluded, leaving 537. Exposure was estimated only as total…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos disease in United States shipyards
…turnover. About one in 500 private-shipyard workers was an "asbestos worker," but other trades also had opportunity for exposure. They followed 440 insulation workers in nine shipyard union locals from 1967 through 1976. Of these…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
The occurrence of pleural calcification among asbestos insulation workers
…then presented an X-ray survey of asbestos insulation workers. The author studied 1,258 union insulation workers in the New York-New Jersey area and examined 1,117 of them in 1963-1964, using standard…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Hazards of white asbestos
…a letter to The Lancet, not a research study, written by a health and safety co-ordinator at the UK Transport and General Workers Union. It responded to a May 9, 1998 commentary by Mark Cullen…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Reginald Tage: a UK asbestos prophet--a postscript
…1992) of Reginald Tage, a former medical student who investigated asbestos disease at the Cape Asbestos factory at Barking and reported his surveys to the Trades Union Congress in January 1932. The author reproduced a factory…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Tobacco and asbestos: consistent treatment advocated
…it reported no new data. The authors, from the Health and Safety Department of the United Automobile Workers union, commented on an article by Suta and Thompson in the same journal issue. That article used survey…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Asbestos and cancer: an early warning to the British TUC
The author, a lawyer at the University of Birmingham, examined Trades Union Congress (TUC) archives held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. The archives related to the drafting of Britain's Asbestos Industry Regulations…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Banning Asbestos in New Zealand, 1936-2016, an 80-Year Long Saga
…the asbestos sufferers, their families and support groups. At the political level, there were the activities of progressive trade union groups representing the hazardous trades, such as labourers, construction workers and demolition workers, and at a…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Asbestos Exposure Of Brake Repair Workers In The United States
…particles had the features of fosterite, a heat-altered form of chrysotile. Second, the authors examined 104 union vehicle maintenance workers who volunteered, and analyzed 90 with over 10 years' work. Of these 90, 24 (27%)…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
From Awareness to Action: The Community of Sarnia Mobilizes to Protect its Workers from Occupational Disease
…and perseverance. We found that improvements in occupational health and safety came from persistently communicating a clearly defined issue ("asbestos exposure causes cancer") and having an engaged community that collaborated with union leadership. Notable successes included…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Biological Effects Of Asbestos
…by Selikoff, Churg and Hammond, studied the 1,522 men in the New York and New Jersey insulation workers' union locals between 1942 and 1962. Of 1,258 men alive in January 1963, 1,117 were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Infra Red Spectroscopy of the Regulated Asbestos Amphiboles
…of the five regulated amphibole species: anthophyllite, amosite, and crocidolite, provided by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) Organization, and tremolite and actinolite, from two well-known occurrences. The data from these reference samples have…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
The Tale of Asbestos in Sweden 1972-1986-The Pathway to a Near-Total Ban
…extensive charting of asbestos sources on a tripartite basis, involving government agencies, and employer and trade-union organizations. Restrictive asbestos management practices were enforced from July 1982. The year 1985 saw the Government Asbestos Commission review…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
The Third Wave of Asbestos Disease: Exposure to Asbestos in Place--Public Health Control. Conference. New York, New York, June 7-9, 1990
…author described a third phase of disease, from asbestos already in place. Of 17,800 insulation union members in the United States and Canada, 4,951 died in 1967-1986. On best evidence there were 1…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Asbestos in Poland: occupational health problems
…supervises. The authors reported that Poland imported about 2 million tonnes of asbestos after 1945, mostly chrysotile from the former Soviet Union. Crocidolite and small amounts of amosite were also used until the mid 1980s. From…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1966
Occupational hazards of pipe insulators
…glass, asbestos-containing, plastic, adhesive and other insulating materials. The authors also analyzed adhesive solvents by gas chromatography and followed the 47 men listed as union members on Jan 1, 1939. By Jan 1, 1964, 33…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Global Asbestos Disaster
…of which work-related exposures are responsible for 233,000 deaths (222,322⁻242,802). In the European Union, United States of America and in other high income economies (World Health Organization regional classification) the direct costs…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Occupational burden of asbestos-related cancer in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico
…Health Organization. Estimates of how many workers in each economic sector were exposed to asbestos were not available for the countries studied, so the authors used European Union figures from 1990 to 1993. For mesothelioma, the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Asbestos examinations for construction workers
…large only unionized workers would get exams, since union dues records let programs track them; the exceptions were non-union workers at responsible asbestos-abatement companies with steady work crews. The letter raised four objections to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
A camel through the eye of a needle: expertise and the late recognition of asbestos-related diseases
…as finite and controllable. Second, the alternative approach to asbestos hazard management proposed by the Spanish trade union Comisiones Obreras in the early 1980s, inspired by the so-called Italian workers' model, prioritized locally produced knowledge…