64 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 2 of 4
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Company document · Motley 1000 · December 12, 1978
Asbestos Information Association Executive Committee Minutes on Expert Witnesses and the Califano Letter (1978)
…Pigg. Members present came from CertainTeed, Nicolet, Raybestos-Manhattan, Johns-Manville (Dimitry Poutiatine), Union Carbide and Supradur. The committee agreed to prepare an open letter to Joseph Califano, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, enclosing Dr…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · January 25, 1978
Asbestos Information Association Technical Committee Papers and Draft Letter Selling the Enterline Study (1978)
…H. B. Rhodes (Union Carbide) comments on the present status of the construction industry study being performed by Equitable Environmental Health, Inc. It is agreed that the Technical Committee will do no further work on a…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · June 24, 1978
Asbestos Information Association Press Release on a Safe Level of Asbestos Exposure (1978)
…of 2 fibers per cubic centimeter was a safe level of exposure. Compare the private report of a Union Carbide hygienist three years earlier, that the only person he found at an international congress willing to…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 19, 1976
R. H. Mereness (Asbestos Information Association) to Members on OSHA Retention of Exposure Monitoring Records, with Federal Register Notice (1976)
…Attached is the Federal Register notice of March 19, 1976, in which OSHA explains the amendment to 29 CFR 1910.1001(i)(1) following the D.C. Circuit's remand in Industrial Union Department v. Hodgson.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 1, 1976
R. H. Mereness (Asbestos Information Association) to CPSC Chairman S. John Byington on the Petition to Ban Asbestos Patching Compounds (1976)
…the Consumer Product Safety Commission commenting on the July 15, 1976 petition by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Consumers Union to ban asbestos-containing patching compounds. The letter says the comments were prepared after consultation…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 31, 1980
Asbestos Information Association/North America 'News & Notes' (October 31, 1980), with Attached News Clippings
…NAS study); page 4 also covers an AIA/NA meeting notice (page 4 OCR garbled) News & Notes: legislators and union call for protection of workers in other countries; AIA/NA comments on the EPA proposal on…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 9, 1976
R. H. Mereness to AIA Executive Committee Forwarding Affidavit in Shoup v. Johns-Manville et al. (1976)
A one-page memorandum from the Asbestos Information Association's Executive Director to its Executive Committee enclosing an affidavit in Shoup v. Johns-Manville et al. (Wayne County, Michigan), followed by pages of that affidavit. In the affidavit,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 6, 1977
Asbestos Information Association/North America Statement on the NIOSH Document on Health Effects of Occupational Exposure to Asbestos (1977)
A four-page statement from the Asbestos Information Association/North America responding to a December 1976 NIOSH document to OSHA on the health effects of occupational asbestos exposure. It disputed the case for lowering the 2 f/cc standard, said…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Order Form to Asbestos Information Association/North America for Asbestos Handbooks, Pamphlets, Posters and Films
A two-page blank order form addressed to the Asbestos Information Association/North America (AIA/NA) for publications and training materials on asbestos. It lists a federal and state regulations handbook, a newsletter, employee pamphlets,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Asbestos Information Association/North America, Recommended Practices for Handling Asbestos Fiber (pamphlet)
Two-page pamphlet of the Asbestos Information Association/North America (AIA/NA) setting out recommended practices for handling asbestos fiber, covering general precautions, unloading, storage, handling, protective equipment, transport and waste…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 12, 1973
Asbestos Information Association/North America (M. M. Swetonic) to Richard Wilkins on Proposed California Asbestos Safety Order, Section 5208 (1973)
Letter from the Asbestos Information Association/North America to the Chief of California's Division of Industrial Safety commenting on the proposed new Safety Order, Section 5208, on asbestos. It supports the proposed standards in general and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 1, 1978
Asbestos Information Association/North America Comments to DOT on Proposed Rulemaking on Transportation of Asbestos (1978)
Comment letter from the Asbestos Information Association/North America to the Department of Transportation responding to the March 2, 1978 proposed rulemaking on transportation of asbestos (Docket HM-160, Notice 78-3). It argues current bagging and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 3, 1975
Asbestos Information Association/North America, Draft Recommended Work Practices for Asbestos Products Manufacture and Fabrication, with OSHA Asbestos Standard Appendices (1975)
Compilation of draft Asbestos Information Association/North America 'Recommended Work Practices' booklets for products using asbestos, including asbestos-filled resinous molding compounds (draft dated 1/3/75), friction materials, reinforced plastic…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 2, 1983
B. J. Pigg (Asbestos Information Association) to AIA/NA Members Forwarding Sept. 1 Letter to Secretary Donovan and Assistant Secretary Auchter Opposing an OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard for Asbestos (1983)
A cover memorandum from the AIA/NA Executive Director to members forwards a copy of the association's September 1, 1983 letter to Labor Secretary Donovan and OSHA head Auchter. The enclosed letter argues that OSHA should not issue an Emergency…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 23, 1976
G. G. Gabrielson, Jr. to H. B. Rhodes on Ad Hoc Committee for Construction Objectives and Proposed Study Protocol (1976)
Memorandum on Asbestos Information Association letterhead in which the Asbestos Regulation Task Force chairman set out four objectives for the Ad Hoc Committee for Construction: measuring worker exposure, developing a protocol for an independent…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 9, 1976
Asbestos Information Association Response to OSHA on the Proposed Revision of the Asbestos Standard, 29 CFR 1910 (Excerpts), with 1979 AIA Labelling Correspondence (1976)
Excerpts from the asbestos industry's April 1976 submission to OSHA opposing the proposed lowering of the asbestos exposure standard from 2 fibers/cc to 0.5 fibers/cc. It includes a transmittal letter, the task force chairman's summary and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 9, 1983
B. J. Pigg (Asbestos Information Association) to ABC News President Roone Arledge Criticizing the Documentary "Asbestos: The Way to Dusty Death" (1983), with Handwritten Cover Note to "Bill"
The exhibit is a handwritten cover note dated 9/16/83 on B. J. Pigg's AIA stationery, followed by a four-page letter of February 9, 1983 from Pigg to ABC News president Roone Arledge. The letter criticizes ABC's December 27, 1982 documentary…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 23, 1980
H. B. Rhodes to B. J. Pigg Transmitting Draft Oral Testimony for the Cal/OSHA Standards Board Hearing (1980)
Letter on Asbestos Information Association letterhead sending B. J. Pigg attached oral testimony prepared for a May 29, 1980 hearing of the Cal/OSHA Standards Board. The testimony was intended to be presented by J. L. Myers for the AIA/NA, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 11, 1978
R. H. Mereness (Asbestos Information Association) to Executive Committee Forwarding Dr. Enterline's Editorial 'Asbestos and Cancer -- the International Lag' (1978)
One-page memorandum from the Asbestos Information Association's executive director telling the Executive Committee that Dr. Philip Enterline had submitted an editorial to the American Review of Respiratory Disease, based on a study he did for the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 23, 1976
Harrison B. Rhodes (Asbestos Information Association) to Al Libra (California Manufacturer's Association) on California Carcinogen Registration and Avoiding an Asbestos 'Scare Campaign' (1976)
Letter transmitting an information package on asbestos to the California Manufacturer's Association's general counsel after a San Francisco meeting. It discusses California's registration and exemption proposals for carcinogens, expresses concern…