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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 1986
Clayton Environmental Consultants Newsletter No. 23: M. A. Coffman, "OSHA Issues New Asbestos Standards" (1986)
…lead article by Michael A. Coffman on OSHA's June 20, 1986 final asbestos rules for general industry and construction. The article covers the lowered permissible exposure limit and new action level, the air sampling method…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 26, 1986
BNA Occupational Safety & Health Reporter, Current Report: Court Review Sought of Final Asbestos Rules; Rader OSHRC Nomination Defeated (1986)
…1986. One article reports that two AFL-CIO departments and the Asbestos Information Association petitioned federal appeals courts to review OSHA's final asbestos standards for general industry and construction. A second article reports the Senate…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 1980
James T. Schirripa, "Evaluating the Cancer Risk of Asbestos," Occupational Health and Safety (July/August 1980)
…Inc. study of airborne asbestos fiber in over 100 general occupancy buildings. It says the study's time-to-tumor calculations found the cancer risk negligible and that disturbing or removing asbestos insulation raises the risk…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 1972
Report of the Advisory Committee on Asbestos Cancers to the Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (1972 meeting, Lyon)
…on 5-6 October 1972, with three panels (epidemiology, pathology, physics and chemistry). It lists the members, answers nine general questions on asbestos and cancer (lung carcinoma, mesothelioma, low-level exposure, smoking, other cancers, pleural plaques)…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
"Asbestos": Article Reprinted from National Safety News on Asbestos Uses, Disease and OSHA Regulation (undated)
…dust (asbestosis, lung cancer, mesothelioma). It relays Asbestos Information Association/North America positions on risk to the general public. It also summarizes the 1972 OSHA asbestos standards, the 1973 EPA emission standards and dust-control methods.
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Company document · Asbestos Information Association documents · October 27, 1971
William P. Raines to F. J. Schlink, Editor of Consumer Bulletin, on the "Hidden Dangers in the Air We Breathe" Article (1971)
…hazards. It stated that asbestos health risks are basically occupational, that no evidence showed a hazard to the general public from community air, and cited a British factory study and a Quebec study of asbestos workers.
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Company document · Asbestos Information Association documents
Asbestos and Health: Questions & Answers, Asbestos Information Association/North America
…information. It states that asbestos health risks are confined to occupational settings, that there is no evidence of hazard to the general public, and that asbestos can be used safely in the workplace with precautions. It…
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Company document · Asbestos Information Association documents · October 26, 1971
W. P. Raines (AIA/NA) to Washington Post Managing Editor Eugene Patterson on the National Research Council Asbestos Story (1971)
…1971 story on the National Research Council's asbestos dust recommendations. It said the story wrongly stated that asbestos poses a hazard to the general public, and that the industry agreed with the Council's facts…
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Company document · Asbestos Information Association documents
Asbestos Information Association/North America, Recommended Work Practices: Fabrication and Use of Asbestos Friction Materials
…use asbestos friction materials such as clutch facings, disc brake pads and automatic transmission plates. It summarizes the 1972 OSHA asbestos standard and gives general and specific recommendations on exhaust and dust collection, housekeeping, employee training…
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Company document · Asbestos Textile Institute documents · October 3, 1968
Asbestos Textile Institute Board of Governors Meeting Minutes, October 3, 1968 (1968)
…Pa., on October 3, 1968, followed by a page of continuing general-meeting minutes. C.L. Sheckler of Johns-Manville urged industry-wide wet-weaving to reduce dust hazard to operatives and an environmental control committee…
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Company document · Asbestos Textile Institute documents · 1952
Asbestos Textile Institute Abstracts, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1952)
…a two-page list of cited 1951-52 journal articles grouped under Air Hygiene, Technical and General. It includes short summaries of articles on sonic agglomeration of dust and on the heat-insulating performance of asbestos…
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Company document · Asbestos Textile Institute documents · November 29, 1954
Asbestos Textile Institute Treasurer's Report by J. G. Schoepf, November 29, 1954 (1954)
…Textile Institute giving fund balances from October 1 to November 29, 1954. It lists receipts, transfers and disbursements for the Fellowship, General and Petty Cash funds, and shows a balance on hand of $14,351.75.
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Company document · Asbestos Textile Institute documents · June 10, 1953
Asbestos Textile Institute Board of Governors Minutes, June 10, 1953 (1953)
…meeting held at the Warwick Hotel, Philadelphia. The Board dealt with refurbishing visual aid displays, splitting Associate member dues between the General and Fellowship Funds, the September 1953 General meeting, committee meeting expenses, and associate membership.
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Company document · Asbestos Textile Institute documents · December 5, 1951
Asbestos Textile Institute Board of Governors Minutes, December 5, 1951 (1951)
…on December 5, 1951. The board recommended a 1952 budget of $18,100 for the General and Fellowship Funds, a constitutional amendment creating associate membership for foreign textile makers and asbestos fiber miners, a 1952 meeting…
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Company document · Asbestos Textile Institute documents · March 11, 1953
Asbestos Textile Institute Board of Governors Meeting Minutes, March 11, 1953 (1953)
…of a meeting of the Asbestos Textile Institute Board of Governors at the Essex House, New York, held the day before a General meeting. The Board discussed the Abradoflex patent application bill, an associate membership application…
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Company document · JM Document Review · January 31, 1983
Lois Gaul's Johns-Manville Memo on the Rhode Island Medical Journal (1983)
…1983, from Lois Gaul to D. H. Markusson, J-M's associate general counsel, with copies to K. Richman and B. Diemer, reporting on her review of the Rhode Island Medical Journal from 1938 to 1969…
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Company document · JM Document Review · May 19, 1932
Physical Examinations of Employees at the Manville Factory (1932)
…The report explains how cases were labeled. Positive cases with an earlier job in a dusty trade "were called 'Pneumoconiosis'" (the general term for dust disease of the lungs), and those with no earlier dust history…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 19, 1949
H. M. Jackson's Memorandum of the Manville Industrial Hygiene Meeting on Special Cases (1949)
…confidential one-page memorandum of September 19, 1949, by H. M. Jackson at J-M's General Headquarters, recording a meeting on September 14 about industrial hygiene at the Manville, New Jersey, plant, attended by F…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 4, 1980
A. Mayer-Pareyn to R. B. Von Wald and J. A. Brown on the Health and Safety History of J-M do Brazil (1980)
…insulation workers at the Rio shipyards wearing respirators when applying material in confined spaces. However, this is not the general practice on insulation jobs." On page 11, the author states that W.B. Reitze pointed out…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 23, 1952
Arthur L. Fisk Jr. and Glenn A. Coughlan of Idaho on a Rock Wool Lung Fibrosis Claim (1952)
…an assistant attorney general of Idaho handling a claim against the State Insurance Fund for total disability "allegedly arising from fibrosis of the lungs due to breathing rock wool dust." Fisk enclosed a 1935 article by…