44 results for “General Electric”, page 2 of 3
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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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Company document · WARD Documents · October 23, 1963
Industrial Hygiene Foundation Members Represented by Proxies (1963)
…by proxies," probably at the foundation's meeting of members of October 23, 1963. They include Johns-Manville, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Owens-Illinois Glass, Union Carbide, U.S. Steel, General Motors and the Pipe Fabrication Institute.
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Company document · WARD Documents · November 15, 1951
Industrial Hygiene Foundation Report on New Members and Training (1951)
…19). It lists twelve companies that joined since January 1, among them the Pennsylvania Railroad, General Mills and U.S. Pipe and Foundry, says the Foundation now served more than 360 member companies, and describes its…
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Company document · WARD Documents · March 7, 1968
J. C. Shiuh, Impact Strength of Amosite Fibers in Asbestos-Cement Products, J-M Research Report 411-708 (1968)
…stamped "JM CONFIDENTIAL. Not for general distribution or republication." An earlier report had found amosite usable as a substitute for "Blue fiber" (crocidolite) only in noncritical pipe. This study tested blends of 10 per cent Cape…
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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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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."
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Company document · WARD Documents · February 11, 1969
W. P. Howard of the Asbestos Information Committee to F. J. Solon on Caution Labels for Overseas Shipments (1969)
What it shows Howard's worry was that American transport workers who saw the labels would pass their "disquiet" to the Transport and General Workers Union, "whose members largely control the passage of cargoes through British…
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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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Trade catalog or brochure · WARD Documents · 1971
Asbestos Textile Institute, Recommended Health Safety Practices for Handling and Fabricating Asbestos Textile Products (1971)
…workers," and says manufacturers had "for years" been protecting their own workers. Its advice for customers who cut and sewed asbestos cloth was general, and it says the recommendations "cannot be considered adequate to cover all…
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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…