20 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 25, 1983
Asbestos Reprints Circulated Within Union Carbide: AIA Medical Advisory Panel Diagnostic Criteria and Lewinsohn on Medical Surveillance, with Johnkoski and Rankin Transmittal Memos (1983)
Compilation of two Union Carbide transmittal memos (February 1983) and two attached published reprints. The reprints are the Asbestos International Association Medical Advisory Panel's 1982 criteria for diagnosing asbestosis, with notes on mesothelioma and lung…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 1, 1986
M. A. Patel to T. E. Hanning Transmitting Notes on Union Carbide Practice SH-256, Removal and Handling of Asbestos-Containing Insulation, with Hanning's Asbestos Update Memo (1986)
Handwritten note dated 12-1-86 to T. E. Hanning with comments on SH-256 (UCC 011229) Union Carbide Central Engineering Recommended Practice SH-256, Removal and Handling Asbestos-Containing Insulation Material, September 1986, 6 pages…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1987
Union Carbide Asbestos Removal and Phase-Out Papers, Including T. E. Hanning Memo on Contractor Project Development Group (1987)
…Chemicals and Plastics Business Group, use of asbestos-containing materials in the work place Grafoil seminar outline and cover sheet (Union Carbide Specialty Products Group, Cleveland) Grafoil flexible graphite newsletter on special gasketing techniques Distribution list…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 1987
Union Carbide Memos and Draft C&P Program on Phasing Out Asbestos-Containing Materials in Company Workplaces (1986-1987)
Six pages of Union Carbide papers from 1986-1987 on asbestos in the company's own facilities. They include a 9/29/86 draft Chemicals and Plastics (C&P) program to phase out asbestos-containing materials…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 5, 1986
T. E. Hanning to S. W. Clark and Others on Asbestos Update: Union Support for Proposed EPA Ban (1986)
…marked 'For Your Information', reporting that labor unions were endorsing a proposed EPA asbestos ban and contending that OSHA's 0.2 fiber/cc limit gave insufficient worker protection. It also summarizes the proposed EPA rule…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 22, 1986
M. A. Patel Transmittal of T. E. Hanning Summary of OSHA's Amended Asbestos Standard (1986)
Patel's July 22, 1986 internal correspondence forwarded a summary of OSHA's June 20, 1986 amendment to the asbestos standard (29 CFR 1910.1001), noting the permissible exposure limit was reduced from 2.0 to 0.2 f/cc with an action level of 0.1 f/cc.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 23, 1987
T. E. Hanning to C. C. Neely Forwarding Asbestos Implementation Task Group Minutes and Standard Practice SH-256 (1987)
…C. Neely, March 23, 1987, forwarding Asbestos Implementation Task Group March 17 meeting items Union Carbide Standard Practice SH-256 (December 1986), Removal and Handling of Asbestos-Containing Insulation Material: exposure limits, work practices, respirators, monitoring…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 28, 1986
T. E. Hanning to Recipient on Review of South Charleston Plant Procedures for Removal and Disposal of Asbestos Materials (1986)
Memorandum from T. E. Hanning reviewing updates to the South Charleston plant's 514 Maintenance Department procedure for handling and disposing of asbestos insulation, following the July 1986 OSHA revision. It sets out the revised exposure limit and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 23, 1987
T. E. Hanning to C. C. Neely Forwarding Asbestos Implementation Task Group March 17 Meeting Items and Standard Practice SH-256 (1987)
…Neely, March 23, 1987, on Asbestos Implementation Task Group March 17 meeting items Attached Union Carbide Standard Practice SH-256 (December 1986), Removal and Handling Asbestos-Containing Insulation Material: OSHA/EPA standards, work practices, protective equipment…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 2, 1982
V. H. Johnkoski to A. W. Carlson, Omar Muniz-Diaz and D. R. Shearer on Surveying Locations for Asbestos Processing (1982)
Memo from V. H. Johnkoski, copied to K. A. Ackenhusen and W. R. van der Hoeven, stating he did not think the division processed asbestos or asbestos mixtures at any location and asking recipients to survey their locations and report results by…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 25, 1983
V. H. Johnkoski to Drs. Guzzardo, Rowe and Tulla Forwarding Asbestos Reprints on Diagnosis and Medical Surveillance, with R. R. Rankin Cover Memo and Lewinsohn Addendum (1983)
A February 25, 1983 transmittal memo from V. H. Johnkoski forwarded asbestos reprints and noted Dr. Lewinsohn's availability to answer questions. Attached were R. R. Rankin's February 22, 1983 cover memo to the GOHC, a 1982 Asbestos International…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 19, 1987
T. E. Hanning to C. C. Neely on Encapsulation of Asbestos for the Asbestos Task Group (1987)
Memo from T. E. Hanning to C. C. Neely, with copies to several colleagues, declining an invitation to the July 23 Asbestos Task Group meeting and supplying general information on asbestos abatement by removal, enclosure and encapsulation. It…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 22, 1986
M. A. Patel to Distribution List on the Amended OSHA Asbestos Standard, with T. E. Hanning's Summary of Changes (1986)
A July 22, 1986 internal memo from Technical Center industrial hygienist Manhar A. Patel reported that OSHA had amended its asbestos standard and attached T. E. Hanning's summary of the changes. The summary covers the lower exposure limit,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 8, 1982
V. H. Johnkoski to A. W. Carlson, Omar Muniz-Diaz and D. R. Shearer on EPA Asbestos Notification Requirements (1982)
One-page memo from V. H. Johnkoski asking the recipients to review their location procedures to ensure compliance with EPA notification requirements before demolition or renovation of friable asbestos material, per an attachment that is not…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 26, 1981
D. T. Watters to I. P. Blackwood et al. on Potential Health Risks of Insulation Materials (Perlite Insulation Specification 4) (1981)
Memorandum from D. T. Watters, June 26, 1981, on potential health risks of insulation materials Union Carbide Chemicals/Plastics Material Specification for Insulation 4M/4A/4SS (perlite), December 1980, pages 1-2 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 28, 1988
T. E. Hanning to D. A. Boggs and Others on Procedures for Handling Asbestos-containing Gaskets or Packing (1988)
Memo reporting that the Manufacturing Council accepted an Asbestos Phaseout Task Group recommendation to stop purchasing asbestos-containing materials after January 1, 1989, with GRAFOIL as the designated gasket and packing replacement. It discusses…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 14, 1983
V. H. Johnkoski Transmittal of H. C. Lewinsohn's Asbestos Disease Abstracts and Articles to Ethylene Oxide/Glycol Division Staff (1983)
A June 14, 1983 cover memo from V. H. Johnkoski forwarded material from Dr. Lewinsohn relating primarily to asbestosis. Attached were Lewinsohn's June 7, 1983 transmittal of symposium abstracts (Fleischner Society), abstracts by Gaensler and Sargent…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 22, 1986
Manhar A. Patel to Distribution List Transmitting T. E. Hanning's Summary of the Amended OSHA Asbestos Standard (1986)
Internal Union Carbide memo from the Technical Center industrial hygienist reporting that OSHA amended its asbestos standard, 29 CFR 1910.1001, effective July 21, 1986. It lowered the permissible exposure limit from 2.0 to 0…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 26, 1981
D. T. Watters to I. P. Blackwood and Others on Potential Health Risks of Insulation Materials (1981)
Memorandum responding to questions about whether non-asbestos substitute insulation was available after complaints of irritation from dust of perlite-based Insulation Specification 4 used in ethylene oxide service. It recommended continued use of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 20, 1977
John A. Fisher to Technology Managers, R/D Directors and R/D ADs on Resuming Work on the Reactive and Hazardous Chemicals Manual, with Attached Index and Distribution List (1977)
A January 20, 1977 internal memo in which John A. Fisher asked R&D managers whether to resume work on the Reactive and Hazardous Chemicals Manual, which chemicals to add, and whether they would support it. Attached are the manual's foreword, hazard…