8 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
The analysis of lagging materials for asbestos: CEGB procedures
This article, by an author from the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB), described how the Board sampled and analysed thermal insulation (lagging) in its power stations for asbestos, and reviewed the analytical methods it used. It…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1970
Asbestos and asbestosis
This short 1970 paper was not a research study but a general overview. It was originally presented at a 1969 conference on asbestos exposure during brake and clutch maintenance, and the author was Group Medical Adviser…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1971
Asbestos dust concentrations in ship repairing: a practical approach to improving asbestos hygiene in naval dockyards
…the top of a ladder from the stripping area. Removing pipe lagging gave mean general levels of 171 fibres/cm3 in boiler rooms and 88 fibres/cm3 in engine rooms. Applying lagging gave much lower levels…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
The combined effects of smoking and occupational or urban factors in relation to lung cancer
…risk in certain occupational groups, studies on general populations show that the effect of smoking is large compared with that of "urban" factors and there is no indication of any interaction between smoking and air pollution.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
A study of the size distributions of airborne amosite fibres in the manufacture of asbestos insulation boards
…tasks such as bag opening, sawing and sanding, and in general areas. One filter of each pair was examined by optical phase contrast microscopy and the other by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Fibre length distributions did…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Current opinions on the asbestos cancer problem
This article was a synopsis of a recent review of epidemiological studies and a general summary by the same author, drawing on opinions expressed at the 1969 Pneumoconiosis Conference in Johannesburg. The author described international studies…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Health aspects of man-made mineral fibres. A review
…in production for over 40 years. The diameter of the fibres has in general been too large to cause a high concentration of respirable fibrous dust during manufacturing or use. Medical studies in several countries of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Asbestos in the work place and the community
…of mesothelial tumours in neighbourhoods of a source of asbestos dust, and the presence of asbestos bodies or calcified asbestos pleural plaques in the general population. Conditions giving rise to neighbourhood mesothelial tumours may not now…