263 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 8 of 14
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Exposure of sheet-metal workers to asbestos during the construction and renovation of commercial buildings in New York City. A case study in social medicine
…buildings. In 1982 the Occupational Health Program of Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine initiated a multidimensional asbestos evaluation and intervention program for the sheet-metal industry and union in New York…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Asbestos update
…an Asian Asbestos Conference in Bangkok with delegates from 26 countries, and a European Union awareness campaign launched in September 2006. The last was a mesothelioma research meeting in Chicago with more than 300 attendees from…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Too little, too late? The home office and the asbestos industry regulations, 1931
…1920s, after which the Inspectorate acted speedily. Employers and organized labour were each able to change the rules only at the margins. Union leaders and Thomas Legge, the TUC's medical adviser, accepted the outcome. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Contribution of environmental factors to cancer risk
…other indoor air pollution, and drinking water contaminants such as arsenic. Where possible they estimated case numbers for the 15-country European Union. For asbestos, they tabulated studies of mesothelioma and lung cancer in people exposed…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
The WTO asbestos case and its health and trade implications
…asbestos. Canada argued that controlled use could make the remaining hazards undetectable and therefore acceptable. The United States sided with the European Union against Canada. The author doubted that controlled use could work in practice. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Science is not sufficient: Irving J. Selikoff and the asbestos tragedy
…had not used, and on interviews with colleagues. They reported that Selikoff personally received no funds to direct a union-supported program, that he favored controlling asbestos hazards rather than campaigning for a ban, and that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Asbestos: historical perspective
…study by Irving Selikoff, E. Cuyler Hammond and Jacob Churg of 632 men from two asbestos insulator union locals. Hammond suggested confining analysis to men with at least 20 years' work experience. That study recorded 255…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Epidemiology of mesothelioma in the 21st century in Europe and the United States, 40 years after restricted/banned asbestos use
…6 kg in the US. By 2007, US consumption was 0.003 kg per person and most European Union countries were at or near zero, while Kazakhstan remained at 7.0 kg. For 2008 to 2012…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
The prevalence of pleural plaques and/or pulmonary changes among construction workers in Okayama, Japan
…this as within the Japanese legal standard but far above a WHO standard. Second, specialists read chest x-rays of 2,951 male union construction workers in Okayama, Japan, and workers with findings had chest CT…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Re: Attitudes and opinions regarding asbestos and cancer, 1937-1965
…Adviser to the Trades Union Congress, and he died on 7 May 1932 at the age of 69. The authors concluded that, assuming Henry was correct about Legge's appointments, the trade union communication described by…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
European Code against Cancer 4th Edition: Environment, occupation and cancer
…and mesothelioma. Significant amounts of air pollutants - mainly from road transport and industry - continue to be emitted in the European Union (EU); an increased occurrence of lung cancer has been attributed to air pollution even in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Asbestosis in the Republic of Croatia
…of asbestos. Croatia as a transitional country is subject to socioeconomic pressures. Future approaches to the asbestos issue will depend on revised regulations, which are expected to conform to recommendations of the European Union by 2005.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
A methodology for identifying workers exposed to asbestos since 1940
…exposed. The authors used state labor records and state industrial directories to find asbestos manufacturing companies and shipyards with more than 100 employees, and counted insulators through their union. They estimated exposed workers from annual employment…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Is your hospital safe?
…Provisions created in 2006 by Jackson Memorial Hospital and Service Employees International Union Local 1991 required the employer to tell employees about known asbestos-containing materials in their work areas and to notify them of scheduled…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Asbestos and asbestos-related disease: the South African case
…control of asbestos, the inadequate state compensation system, and the difficulties facing labor. After describing recent improvements won by trade unions, mainly in the transnational corporation sector, we discuss the implications for industry, labor, and control…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
Epidemiology of gastrointestinal cancer
…had one bronchogenic carcinoma death. The 283 cigarette smokers had 41 against 3.3 expected. Among 17,800 union insulation workers in the United States and Canada, followed from 1967 to 1971, colon and rectal cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Some lessons learned from using participatory methods in asbestos worker training
…methods in response to teacher burnout, student boredom and requests from new staff. The article presented one problem-solving exercise: a case study written for members of the United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers, and Allied Workers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Work and workers' responses at Wittenoom, 1943-1966
…to 50%) were of non-British migrant origin. The author identified three responses: departure, silence (almost no organised industrial, union, political or community action) and diversion (drinking, gambling and parties). These were explained by several factors…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
"Make history but don't forget the past"
…Australia, on 24 November 2004. The author spoke as a life member of the wharf section of the Maritime Workers Union. The speech reports no data collection or analysis. The author recalled that health department officials…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Asbestos: science in the face of hostility in sao paulo
…from Europe, the U.S. and South America. The article reported that union members faced death threats, a kidnapping and a beating before the meeting, and that there was diplomatic pressure to cancel it. It gave…