427 results for “General Electric”, page 3 of 22
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 31, 1980
Asbestos International Association Director-General's Notes for Associations on Panel Activities, EEC Matters and Regulation (1980)
AIA memorandum AIA/41/NEWS from the Director-General to member associations summarizing the period July 1979 to July 1980. It covers the activities of the AIA advisory panels, EEC directives, labelling, conferences, a proposed low…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 25, 1985
Asbestos International Association Director General (Sir Neville Stack) to Advisory Panels, Executive Committee and F. Baunach, Forwarding Dr. Brian Commins' Comments on Nine Statements about Asbestos Health Risks (1985)
AIA memorandum of 25 March 1985 from the Director General forwarding Dr. Commins' observations on the 'Statements and Comments' 'Statements and Comments on those Statements' S/C 1-6, 8 and 9 on asbestos and health…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Asbestos fibers in the general population
…pleura. Counts did not differ significantly by sex or smoking. The authors concluded that substantial asbestos, mostly too small to form asbestos bodies, is present in the average urban lung and probably reflects general environmental contamination.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
US surgeon general ignites furor with findings on smoking in the workplace
…news article, not a research study. A freelance writer described the US Surgeon General's December 1985 Smoking and Health report on cancer and chronic lung disease in the workplace, and the reaction to it. According…
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Government report · 1981
The Attorney General's Asbestos Liability Report to the Congress (1981)
Excerpt from the Attorney General's report to Congress of September 21, 1981, written under the Asbestos School Hazard Detection and Control Act of 1980. It weighed whether the government could recover the cost of school…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 21, 1987
Industrial Hygiene Department Asbestos Exposure Data for General Helpers (Gasket Cutters), 1972-1981 Samples, with Handwritten Notes (1987)
A table headed Industrial Hygiene Department, Asbestos Exposure Data, General Helpers (Gasket Cutters). It lists 13 sample dates from 11/14/72 to 04/02/81 with fiber concentrations in F/cc, the OSHA PEL (5…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 21, 1987
Industrial Hygiene Department Asbestos Exposure Data for General Helpers (Gasket Cutters), Dept. 515 (1987)
A table, marked Business Confidential, of asbestos air-sample concentrations (F/CC) for general helpers who cut gaskets, with sample dates from 11/14/72 to 04/02/81, the OSHA permissible exposure limit in effect…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Asbestos fibers and pleural plaques in a general autopsy population
It has been claimed that symmetric lower zone pleural or diaphargmatic plaques are markers of asbestos exposure both in asbestos workers and the general population. In this study, total pulmonary asbestos burden was analyzed for 29…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Asbestos: toxicology and risk assessment for the general population in The Netherlands
…of Integrated Criteria Documents for priority compounds in The Netherlands, the possible health effects of oral and inhalatory exposure to asbestos for the general population were evaluated. It was concluded from the results of experiments in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Nonasbestos pulmonary mineral fibers in the general population
…sex, or smoking. It is concluded that (1) substantial numbers of nonasbestos fibers are present in lungs of the general population. Most of these fibers are short and of low aspect ratio; and (2) by phase…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 18, 1986
Cover Letter and Excerpts of Operational Safety/Health Survey of Taft General Distribution Facilities, Including Asbestos Findings (1986)
…to J. E. Pierce (Taft Plant) transmitting the final OS/HS report, with distribution list Title page of Operational Safety/Health Survey, Taft General Distribution Facilities, report date Oct. 30, 1986, with team members Report page…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 2, 1986
Union Carbide Corporation's Responses to Plaintiffs' Standard Interrogatories to Defendants [General Order No. 29], Complex Asbestos Litigation, San Francisco Superior Court (1986)
Union Carbide's written answers to the 26 standard interrogatories in General Order No. 29 in the San Francisco Complex Asbestos Litigation, No. 828-684. The answers cover corporate history, the Calidria asbestos business, other products…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 9, 1987
Union Carbide Taft Plant Response to the 1986 General Distribution Operational Safety/Health Survey, with J. E. Pierce Transmittal to D. L. Brucker (1987)
…the General Distribution OS&HS conducted October 13-17, 1986. Letter dated January 8, 1987 from J. E. Pierce to D. L. Brucker, with a long cc list, transmitting the plant response to the Distribution General…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 27, 1982
Closing Remarks by Dr. Jacques Dunnigan, Secretary General of the World Symposium on Asbestos, Montreal (1982)
…in Montreal. The speaker said the assembly did not advocate banning asbestos, called for continued control and research, and said no scientific or medical evidence showed a risk to the general public using asbestos-based products.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 6, 1984
R. R. Rankin to General Occupational Health Committee Transmitting OSHA Special Emphasis Program for Asbestos, with Handwritten Notes (1984)
…and W. P. Fethke U.S. Department of Labor OSHA Instruction CPL 2.60A (July 23, 1984), Special Emphasis Inspection Program for Asbestos, signed by Patrick R. Tyson Distribution list of General Occupational Health Committee members
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 1981
Clement Associates (Schneiderman, Nisbet and Brett) Assessment of Risks Posed by Exposure to Low Levels of Asbestos in the General Environment, Prepared for the German Federal Health Office (1981)
A June 1981 report by Clement Associates that estimates excess lifetime risks of lung cancer and mesothelioma from low-level airborne asbestos exposure in the general environment, extrapolating from dose-response data on industrially exposed workers…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 5, 1984
Occupational Safety & Health Reporter, Current Report pp. 816-817: OSHA Asbestos Draft Proposing 0.5 Fiber Limit for Construction and General Industry (1984-01-05)
…5, 1984. They report on an OSHA draft proposal to lower the asbestos permissible exposure limit from two fibers to 0.5 fibers per cubic centimeter for general and construction industries, and also on EDB, butadiene…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Fiber size and number in workers exposed to processed chrysotile asbestos, chrysotile miners, and the general population
…chrysotile ore, 20 long-term chrysotile miners, and 20 members of the general population (controls). Significantly greater amounts of both chrysotile and tremolite were found in processed-ore workers and miners than in controls. On average…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 4, 1984
Asbestos International Association Memorandum Circulating the Orebro Railway Workshop Cohort Study and Kevin Browne's Comments (1984)
AIA Director General memorandum of 4 September 1984 to the Medical Advisory Panel enclosing the Orebro study translation and Dr K. Browne's comments Cape Industries memo, Kevin Browne to Sir Neville Stack, 28 August 1984…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 28, 1984
Richard G. Hanlon Distributing ORC's Comments to OSHA on Proposed Asbestos Rulemaking (1984)
A Union Carbide internal memo with the subject 'Asbestos Comments' enclosed the cover letter from Organization Resources Counselors' (ORC) May 1984 submission to OSHA on the proposed revision of the asbestos standard. The memo summarized ORC's…