24 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · WARD Documents · May 21, 1970
C. L. Sheckler to J. R. M. Hutcheson on Respirators for Asbestos at the Jeffrey Mine (1970)
A three-page Johns-Manville memo of May 21, 1970, from C. L. Sheckler at General Headquarters to J. R. M. Hutcheson of the Asbestos Fibre Division at Asbestos, Quebec, on "Respiratory Protection for Asbestos." Sheckler…
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Company document · WARD Documents · 1975
Johns-Manville, Environmental Facts: Asbestos and Health, Update 1975 (1975)
What it shows The statement presents disease among long-time asbestos workers as "not an indication of present-day conditions" but the result of past conditions and a general "lack of knowledge" shared by medicine, government…
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Company document · WARD Documents · November 14, 1978
Testimonies of Francis H. May and G. Earl Parker of Johns-Manville Before the House Subcommittee on Compensation, Health and Safety (1978)
…Francis H. May, its executive vice president, and G. Earl Parker, its general counsel, gave on November 14, 1978, to the Subcommittee on Compensation, Health and Safety of the House Committee on Education and Labor. May…
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Trade catalog or brochure · WARD Documents · 1970
Asbestos Cement Products Association, Recommended Practices for Fabricating, Handling and Applying Asbestos-Cement Products (1970)
…the allowable limits, and keep the job clean. A boxed statement on the contents page reads: "Asbestos-cement products, in place and under normal use, present no known health risk to the user or general public."
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Company document · WARD Documents · October 28, 1970
C. L. Sheckler to T. P. Williams on Respirators for Construction Job Sites and Fabrication Shops (1970)
…and R. R. Standel, and a received stamp of J-M's Office of the General Counsel. Sheckler recommended "that respiratory equipment be provided and used on construction job sites, and in fabrication shops, where Asbestos…
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Company document · WARD Documents · 1972
Eagle-Picher Private-Label Insulating Cements and a Cross-Reference of J-M Firecrete Castables to Competing Brands (c. 1972)
…Union Asbestos & Rubber, GAF and General Refractories. A note says "One-Cote cement did not contain asbestos prior to 1960." The second is a cross-reference chart matching Johns-Manville's Firecrete and Firelite castable refractories…
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Company document · WARD Documents · 1972
Exhibit List for H. K. Porter's Acquisition of Tallman-McCluskey Fabrics (c. 1972)
…of St. Louis in 1969: the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, stock assignments, real estate papers (with a 1972 resale), the plan of liquidation, the "General Conveyance of Assumption of Liabilities" and the certificate of dissolution.
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Company document · WARD Documents · 1970
Industrial Hygiene Foundation Member List from the 1970 Annual Report (1970)
…include Johns-Manville (1936), the Asbestos Textile Institute, the Asbestos Cement Products Association, Asbestospray Corporation, Raybestos-Manhattan's General Asbestos & Rubber Division, the Sprayed Mineral Fiber Manufacturers Association, Owens-Corning Fiberglas and insurers such as Travelers.
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Company document · WARD Documents · 1973
Industrial Hygiene Foundation Member List from the 1973 Annual Report, Braun Deposition Copy (1973)
…each company joined. Johns-Manville is shown as a member since 1936, alongside asbestos and insulation companies such as Raybestos-Manhattan's General Asbestos & Rubber Division (1968), Certain-Teed Saint Gobain Insulation (1968), Owens-Corning Fiberglas…
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Company document · WARD Documents · 1973
Industrial Hygiene Foundation Member Lists from the 1973 and 1974 Annual Reports (1973)
…a later list that includes members joining in 1974, probably from the 1974 annual report. The members include the General Asbestos & Rubber Division of Raybestos-Manhattan (1968), Asbestospray Corporation (1973), the Thermal Insulation Manufacturers Association (1966)…
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Trade catalog or brochure · WARD Documents · February 1976
Johns-Manville, Chrysotile Asbestos Fibers: From Nature's Storehouse (1976)
…a Statement of Fact," says that asbestos health risks "are essentially confined to the job setting" and that there was "no evidence" that minute amounts in the community presented "any hazard whatsoever to the general public."
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Company document · WARD Documents · 1973
Johns-Manville, Environmental Facts: Questions and Answers on Asbestos and Health (1973)
…health hazards are confined to the occupational setting," that asbestos diseases "are completely preventable by modern dust-control equipment and procedures," and, to the question "Does asbestos use pose any health risk to the general public?"…
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Trade catalog or brochure · WARD Documents · 1976
Johns-Manville Sales Corporation, Recommended Work Practices for Shop and Field Fabrication of Asbestos Sheet Products (c. 1976)
…It covers flat and corrugated asbestos-cement sheets, asbestos calcium silicate sheets and sandwich panels, summarizes the 1972 OSHA asbestos standard, gives general rules on dust collection, housekeeping and personal hygiene, and then shows, with drawings…
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Government report · WARD Documents · April 2, 1976
June Thompson to Francine Schacter on Extending the CPSC Asbestos Ban to Other Consumer Products (1976)
…firms making the product and thought "additional firms" were involved. The tabs cover other complaints about asbestos products, the earlier ban on asbestos in general-use garments, definitions and properties of asbestos, the agency's authority…
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Government report · WARD Documents · 1973
National Heart and Lung Institute, The Dust Inhalation Diseases (1973)
…leading factor in the death of over 2,000 people in the United States each year," and that asbestos workers who smoke have a lung cancer rate "eight times higher than smokers in the general population."
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Trade catalog or brochure · WARD Documents · 1972
National Insulation Contractors Association, Safety Reminders (1972)
…Occupational Health & Safety Committee, chaired by Don Bradshaw of Owens-Corning Fiberglas, in response to the Occupational Safety and Health Act. Besides general advice on clothing, tools, scaffolds and ladders, it has sections on fabrication shops…
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Trade catalog or brochure · WARD Documents · 1977
Quebec Asbestos Mining Association, Asbestos and Your Health: The Questions People Are Asking (c. 1977)
…whether asbestos presents a risk to the general public, quoting the 1972 International Agency for Research on Cancer advisory committee that "there is at present no evidence of lung damage by asbestos to the general public."
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Trade catalog or brochure · WARD Documents · 1971
Sprayed Mineral Fiber Manufacturers Association, Recommended Code of Practices for Application of Sprayed Fireproofing Materials (c. 1971)
…pollution." It sets out rules for reducing dust, overspray and fall-out, enclosing the work area with tarpaulins, cleaning up asbestos waste, dividing responsibility between the general contractor and the fireproofing subcontractor, and respirators and coveralls.
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Company document · WARD Documents · March 29, 1976
Walt Cooper to HSE Distribution on Two New Occupational Health Guides, Asbestos and PVC (1976)
…personnel about occupational health concerns related to J-M products," with four more planned on fiber glass, polyurethane foams, diatomite and perlite, and would also be used "to answer inquiries from the media and general public."
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Company document · WARD Documents · April 1976
Walter A. Cooper's Bulletin on Occupational Health Guides for Asbestos and PVC (1976)
…Both were written "as references for supervisory level personnel, rather than for general employee distribution"; the asbestos guide was kept general "so that it can be used by customers and other interested parties for educational purposes."