20 results for “General Electric”
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Company document · WARD Documents · March 11, 1969
H. M. Jackson to All Plant, Mill and Mine Managers on Explaining the Membrane Filter Technique to Unions (1969)
…1969, from H. M. Jackson at General Headquarters to all plant, mill, mine, production and division general managers, on the "Membrane Filter Technique for Evaluating Asbestos Fiber Dust Concentrations." Following E. M. Fenner's letter of…
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Company document · WARD Documents · August 15, 1980
W. B. Reitze to Plant Managers on OSHA's Rule on Access to Employee Exposure and Medical Records (1980)
An eight-page Johns-Manville memo of August 15, 1980, from W. B. Reitze of J-M's Health, Safety and Environment department to the company's U.S. plant managers, employee relations managers, division and production managers and plant doctors, on…
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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 · June 25, 1958
C. L. Sheckler's Manville Plant Memo on Standard Respirators for the Dust Abatement Program (1958)
…one-page memo of June 25, 1958, from C. L. Sheckler at J-M's Manville General Plant in New Jersey, headed "Dust Abatement Program, Respirators," with copies to H. M. Jackson and the store rooms…
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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 · July 10, 1980
Monroe Harris to Jose Grinda of Asbestos de Mexico on Dust Surveys and Fiber Shipments (1980)
…urgency, we will have no choice but to stop shipping our asbestos fibre to you." A week earlier, G. Earl Parker, J-M's general counsel, had raised the same choice. Copies went to F. L…
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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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Company document · WARD Documents · August 12, 1982
C. G. Potthoff on a Search of J-M's Old Advertising at the Hibbert-Laman Warehouse (1982)
…Potthoff lists items reviewed, from a 1923 booklet on J-M's service to railroads and a 1946 sales manual of the General Insulation Department to manuals titled "Marine Materials," "Hi Temp Insulations" and "Aerospace Insulation."
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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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Trade catalog or brochure · WARD Documents · January 1981
Johns-Manville, Chrysotile Asbestos Fibers: A Natural Product for Modern Needs (1981)
…testing, packaging and uses. Its health page repeats that asbestos health risks "are essentially confined to the job setting" and that there was "no evidence" that community exposure presented "any hazard whatsoever to the general public."
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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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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."
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Company document · WARD Documents · 1962
Johns-Manville, Working Together in Johns-Manville, Employee Handbook (1962)
What it shows The pages on health and safety speak of examinations, inspections and protective equipment in general terms; in the pages read they do not name asbestos dust or any dust disease.
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Company document · WARD Documents · September 16, 1959
Johns-Manville and Canadian Johns-Manville Correspondence on Firmin Dumortier's Asbestos Cigarette Filter (1959)
…the only sensation that got through to the mouth was of hot air." Battersby noted that the Surgeon General had just reported that cigarette filters did "nothing whatsoever to reduce the hazards of lung cancer," and…
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Company document · WARD Documents · January 22, 1980
Johns-Manville and Manville Trust Papers on J-M's Old Asbestos Mining at Globe, Arizona (1980–1991)
…Corporation, and that from the mining claim files "J-M probably mined 2,000 acres or more and had a number of mining locations in the general vicinity." A Media Relations log of May 23, 1980…
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Trade catalog or brochure · WARD Documents · 1975
Johns-Manville Health, Safety & Environment Department, Asbestos Information Pamphlet HSE-26L (1975)
…says most finished products keep the fibers "safely 'locked' in" and that there is no evidence asbestos poses "any risk to the general public." About this copy The file holds five copies of the same pamphlet…
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Company document · WARD Documents · October 6, 1972
Johns-Manville's Reprint of the IARC Advisory Committee Report on Asbestos Cancers (1972)
…risk "greatest with crocidolite, less with amosite and apparently less with chrysotile." It also found "no evidence of a risk to the general public at present" from asbestos in the air, and no evidence of risk…
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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)
…workers, the idea that significant dust was carried home "is not true" because of J-M's dust collection. On the general public, the statement that people were "in grave danger" was "absolutely false." On deaths…