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rr^ .a 1: e- By JILL JONNES Research in Great Britain, South Bendix plant obtained by The Times GREEN ISLAND -It's noisy and Africa and this country shows that dark in the factory, the smell of danger begins with the first exposure to chemicals is powerful. Everywhere machines are clanking, conveyor belts ' asbestos, because when the minute mineral libers are inhaled, they remain are moving and people are doing their in the lungs forever. The fibers can jobs. lodge in the tissue of the lungs or stomach or intestine. Asbestos workers Record show that during inspections in August, September and November of 1974 the number of asbestos fibers In the air at Bendix often exceeded the number allowed under federal law by significant amounts. A million brake linings a week are who smoke have a threefold greater The Bendix plant is now on what being turned out by the workers of chance of getting lung cancer than the OSHA calls a "multi- step abatement Bendix Corporation, Friction Materials general smoking population. plan" to lower the amount of asbestos Division, Green Island. It seems like any other factory, with one vital difference: about 500 workers handle asbestos. Asbestos - most people know it as a fireproofing, certainly nothing to . worry about. But to public health officials, asbestos is a hazard which has been definitely linked for at least ten years to various debilitating and possibly fatal forms of cancer.' Any worker who is exposed to enough asbestos Is a possible future statistic, one susceptible to asbestlosls, workers breathe during the day. Health experts say these diseases are usaUly dormant for 25 to 30 years and : The plan calls for better ventilation, even then they are often not identified changes in work practice (such as as asbestos-related, but assumed to be . wetting asbestos), respirator masks, some more common form of cancer. special changing rooms and showers so A little more than a year ago, the workers won't carry asbestos dust Occupational Safety and Health home with them. Administration, which took over jurisdiction in this area in 1972, began a scries of inspections at Bendix to . determine if federal regulations concerning worker health and asbestos were being followed. John Bell, a spokesman for Bendix headquarters In South Bend, Ind. said the company first became aware of the hazards of asbestos to its workers In the 1930's. "The company had a continual awareness of the problem and has mesothelioma or lung cancer. .' OSilA reports on the conditions at the adjusted its operations accordingly." He noted, "No scientific report that ' : , indicates the possibility of an adverse effect on employes can be ignored." ' However, several workers at the plant all of whom asked not to be Hentified said it was their feeling the company only moved seriously to dea! v/ith .. the asbestos problem because OSHA came in. "Everyone's pretty sure that everything they're doing is because the government got on their back, because before that there was a cloud of dust in , the air. Now the'dust system is so good - you can't hardly see any dust." sa'd one worker. . .\ The industrial hygenist involved in . the 10-day inspection at Bendix last year said in mid-October, "Before the law, I imagine they didn't do much, but then neither did anyone else." 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