297 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 11 of 15
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Parenchymal and pleural fibrosis in construction workers
…construction workers near Tampere, Finland. Of 993 eligible union members (members since at least 1967), 437 (44%) answered a questionnaire on asbestos and quartz dust exposure and had a chest X-ray. Eighty-one percent reported…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Lung health among plumbers and pipefitters in Edmonton, Alberta
…lung function, and radiographic changes among 99 actively employed plumbers and pipefitters with > or = 20 years of union membership were compared with 100 telephone workers. A respiratory symptom questionnaire was administered, including smoking and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Death certificates in epidemiological studies, including occupational hazards: inaccuracies in occupational categories
…two asbestos workers' cohorts. One (insulation workers) had current or recent employment and a strong, continuing union support system which gave them much information about the effects of asbestos exposure. The second cohort, asbestos factory workers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Hazards of white asbestos
…a letter to The Lancet, not a research study, written by a health and safety co-ordinator at the UK Transport and General Workers Union. It responded to a May 9, 1998 commentary by Mark Cullen…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Reginald Tage: a UK asbestos prophet--a postscript
…1992) of Reginald Tage, a former medical student who investigated asbestos disease at the Cape Asbestos factory at Barking and reported his surveys to the Trades Union Congress in January 1932. The author reproduced a factory…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Asbestos and cancer: an early warning to the British TUC
The author, a lawyer at the University of Birmingham, examined Trades Union Congress (TUC) archives held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. The archives related to the drafting of Britain's Asbestos Industry Regulations…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · July 16, 1991
Fibreboard Corp. v. Pool (1991)
…the limitations defense, or the fault percentages. It held that a union poster was wrongly admitted but harmless. It found the evidence insufficient for Pool's $100,000 future medical award, so he must remit it…
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Government report · 1996
Dust Measurements in the Chrysotile Mining and Milling Operations of Uralasbest Company, Asbest, Russia: Summary Report (1996)
…with total dust of 0.52, 2.33 and 0.83 mg/m3. All fibers identified were chrysotile; no amphiboles were found. The results are set against Russian, European Union and US limits. Catalogue record only.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
The Third Wave of Asbestos Disease: Exposure to Asbestos in Place--Public Health Control. Conference. New York, New York, June 7-9, 1990
…author described a third phase of disease, from asbestos already in place. Of 17,800 insulation union members in the United States and Canada, 4,951 died in 1967-1986. On best evidence there were 1…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Too little, too late? The home office and the asbestos industry regulations, 1931
…1920s, after which the Inspectorate acted speedily. Employers and organized labour were each able to change the rules only at the margins. Union leaders and Thomas Legge, the TUC's medical adviser, accepted the outcome. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
The WTO asbestos case and its health and trade implications
…asbestos. Canada argued that controlled use could make the remaining hazards undetectable and therefore acceptable. The United States sided with the European Union against Canada. The author doubted that controlled use could work in practice. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Re: Attitudes and opinions regarding asbestos and cancer, 1937-1965
…Adviser to the Trades Union Congress, and he died on 7 May 1932 at the age of 69. The authors concluded that, assuming Henry was correct about Legge's appointments, the trade union communication described by…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Some lessons learned from using participatory methods in asbestos worker training
…methods in response to teacher burnout, student boredom and requests from new staff. The article presented one problem-solving exercise: a case study written for members of the United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers, and Allied Workers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Asbestos: science in the face of hostility in sao paulo
…from Europe, the U.S. and South America. The article reported that union members faced death threats, a kidnapping and a beating before the meeting, and that there was diplomatic pressure to cancel it. It gave…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Swedish approaches to industry-wide studies: the construction industry
…health program. The author described following three groups through national death and cancer registries: workers identified in the 1960 and 1970 censuses; about 30,000 painters' union members, 20,000 plumbers and 1,500 insulation workers;…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Mesothelioma incidence and community asbestos exposure
…their "usual employment" was reported as being at the asbestos plant, as evidenced through union lists or occupational information from either the Cancer Registry or mortality records. Standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) were computed for residents of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Asbestos and cancer: An overview of current trends in Europe
…between 0. 004 kg in northern Europe and 2.4 kg in the former Soviet Union. Population surveys from northern Europe indicate that 15 to 30% of the male (and a few percent of the female…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Use of asbestos, health risks and induced occupational diseases in the former East Germany
…and fire prevention material, etc. in the large-scale chemical industry. The asbestos was imported from the former Soviet Union, smaller amounts came from Canada. In the German Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt, approximately 600 asbestoses…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Pleural determinants of restrictive lung function and respiratory symptoms in an asbestos-exposed population
…to breathing symptoms. The authors analyzed 1,211 sheet metal workers in the midwest United States who had at least 25 years in the trade and took part in a 1986 union medical evaluation. Pleural abnormalities…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Industrial workers' health and environmental pollution under the new international division of labor: the Taiwan experience
…health and pollution. They drew on published reports, trade data and 1993 interviews with 13 union cadres from plastic and petrochemical industries. The authors stated that no health data on these workers were available, but cited…