12 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · WARD Documents · 1976
IHF Member List from the 1976 Annual Report (1976)
…in Pittsburgh, listing its member companies with the year each joined, and the new members for 1976. Members include Johns-Manville (1936), Union Carbide (1936), Metropolitan Life (1937), Owens-Corning Fiberglas (1953), Raybestos-Manhattan (1968), Certain…
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Company document · WARD Documents · March 3, 1972
Tabershaw-Cooper Associates to Business Agents and Insulation Contractors on Respirators Under the Emergency Asbestos Standard (1972)
What it shows The memo shows outside industrial hygiene consultants advising the insulation trade, union and employers together, in the months after the federal emergency asbestos standard of December 1971. It stressed that ventilation, enclosure, wet…
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Company document · WARD Documents · 1970
Johns-Manville Signs to Employees on Respirators and Dust Collection (c. 1970)
…speak to men who fabricated and installed insulation "in a fab shop or on the jobsite," and the mention of union and manufacturer research points to the insulation industry's health research of the late 1960s…
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Company document · WARD Documents · July 1971
T. S. Patterson to W. L. VanDerbeek on Public Relations During the Toronto Plant Strike (1971)
…and that the union had not been given the company's dust counts because an educational program was needed first so they could "interpret what these numbers actually mean." He said that employees on disability pensions…
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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)
…Philip Carey, Harbison-Walker, 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…
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Company document · WARD Documents · May 19, 1971
G. P. Reimschussel, Disposable Dust Respirators, J-M Research Center Progress Report No. 2 (1971)
…placebos with no glass fiber, were field-tested at the Dresden Nuclear Power Plant construction site in Illinois with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Local 7 of the asbestos workers' union; the men found…
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Company document · WARD Documents · July 8, 1971
W. A. Young to Toronto Plant Employees on the Second Week of the Strike (1971)
…to review company and Department of Health surveys with it. He called the asbestos issue "a smoke screen" for the union's handling of the talks. The company's press handling of the same strike is…
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Company document · WARD Documents · October 25, 1973
W. B. Reitze, OSHA Letter No. 22, on Not Circulating NIOSH's Asbestos Booklet to Employees (1973)
…the remarks were not "a rebuttal" but might prove useful "if the employee should raise questions or the union should formally request information." Two weeks later J-M sent its own booklet to its plants (OSHA…
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Company document · WARD Documents · November 7, 1973
W. B. Reitze, OSHA Letter No. 23, Sending "What Every Employee Should Know About Asbestos" to the Plants (1973)
…22). J-M's booklet is attached to McKinney's 1974 memo on foreign customers, which reports no adverse union or employee reaction to it. Plant managers were to choose how to hand it out, ideally…
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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)
…survey be included and that none of the unfavorable be unintentionally pictured in darker tones than the circumstances justify." Parker told the subcommittee that J-M and the insulators' union had helped draft the Fenwick bill…
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Company document · WARD Documents · November 16, 1973
F. J. Solon Jr. to J-M Managers on the Reopening of the OSHA Asbestos Standard (1973)
…the 2 fibers per cubic centimeter limit would take effect in July 1976, unless OSHA came under "undue pressure." He writes that the unions and Dr. Selikoff were attacking the 2-fiber standard as "phony" because…
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Government report · WARD Documents · August 1978
National Cancer Institute, Asbestos and Health: An Annotated Bibliography of Public and Professional Education Materials (1978)
…professionals and the public, each with a short description and where to get it. Entries come from government agencies, unions, professional groups and industry, among them several from Johns-Manville's Health, Safety and Environment Department…