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FILE NAME Industrial Hygiene Foundation IHF DATE 1948 DOC IHF018 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION IHF Foundation Facts - July . 3 ts ie 7 Mee PU INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOUNDATI FOUNDATI FOUNDATION FOUNDATION Foundation Facts isa monthly letter Issued to industrial concerns holding membership in Industrial Hygiene Foundation The Foundation is a profit association of Industries for the advancement of healthful working conditions Vol 10 February 1948 No. 2 Twelfth Annual Meeting Transactions Published The official Transactions for the 12th Annual Meeting of trial Hygiene Foundation held at Mellon Institute Pittsburgh on published late in February and mailed to Members and Subscribers Members of Indus- November 20 were This pertinent bulletin entitled A Better Place to Work includes the pointed keynote address by William B. Given Jr. President of American Brake Shoe Company which has attracted such wide attention More than 5,000 copies of the address have been distributed to date and it has been reprinted in a number of journals Other subjects of immediate interest in the Transactions include COMMUNITY ATTITUDE ON WORKING CONDITIONS RESULTS OF FOUNDATION FIELD RESEARCH INDUSTRIAL HEALTH PROGRAMS IN ACTION SUMMARIES OF CONFERENCES held in connection with the annual meeting INDUSTRIAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATION ATOMIC POWER AND INDUSTRY SICKNESS INSURANCE and HEALTH AND WELFARE FUNDS UNDER THE TAFT HARTLEY ACT _ Review of Flu Vaccination Experience ; ) A report on Results of Influenza Vaccination in Industry During the 1947 Epidemic prepared by Anna M. Baetjer Sc.D. of the Hopkins University was Issued by the Foundation recently This material was made available to the Members in advance of publication through the courtesy of Dr. Baetjer It will be recalled that she made an important presentation on the subject of influenza at the 1946 annual meeting ? See Health in Industry Transactions 11th Annual Meeting . Foundation Committees Plan Meeting \ for : The Foundation's MEDICAL COMMITTEE of which Dr. A.J. Lanza is will hold an day meeting in New York on March 10. Chairman B a The agenda includes plans number of the sponsored activities of benefit to Foundation Members The CHEMICAL AND TOXICOLOGICAL COMMITTEE is holding a luncheon meeting in Boston late in March in connection with the annual meeting of the Industrial and Surgeons and the Industrial Physi- COMMITTEE COMMITTEE is Hygiene Association The Foundation's LEGAL planning to meet in New York on May 6 Hatch Named Chairman of Two National Committees Meanwhile Theodore F. Hatch the Foundation's Research pointed to the National Director was recently ap- Environment Research Council's Committee on Sanitary Engineering and . He will serve as Chairman of the committee on Industrial Hygiene Codes andMeanwhile Mr. Hatch has also accepted the chairmanship of the Committee on Safety Exhaust Systems of the American Standards Association HIAL HIAL HIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION -- 4400 FIFTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 13 PA FOUNDATION FOUNDATI FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOUNDATION 15 Vn dee ers 15 Nos aes . A ee A if Foundation a news.letter Facts is monthly news.letter issued . to Industrial concerns holding membership In Industrial Hygiene Foundation The Foundation INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION FACTS FACTS is a profit association of industries for the advancement of healthful working conditions 141 149 | 150 ~ ~ -, 4 154 E. 187 144 a & isme 208 - 3 . 210 3 z 211 Vol 10 March 1948 Foundation Announces New Laboratory No. 3 Industrial Hygiene Foundation has arranged with Elizabeth Steel Magee Hospital part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to occupy a laboratory building providing facilities for expansion of the Foundation's basic researches in industrial health The building is located near the Foundation's headquarters at Mellon Institute Andrew Fletcher President of the St. Joseph Lead Company and Chairman _ of the Foundation's Board in a recent communication to Member companies announc- ing the new facilities said in part In addition to our routine plant and field studies we propose to develop at the new Laboratory an organization for the primary use of our Members along the following lines 1. Toxicological studies including animal work 2 Research in industrial i hygiene methods along the line of development of new instruments method of analysis and procedures for use in practical field work etc. 3. Engineering research under controlled laboratory conditions such as air cleaning methods ventilation requirements etc. The additional laboratory facilities have been necessitated by the increasing demand from Member companies for investigations in fundamental and applied phases of industrial hygiene and toxicology and in industrial physiology The first project will be started early in April METAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION -- 4400 FIFTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 13 PA Foundation Secures Additional Laboratory Facilities gedsktrahlt oat: EC ay al sor PRMSO UE A building at the ElizabethElizabeth Steel Magee HospitalHospital part of the University of Pittsburgh for laboratories Medical Center where Industrial Hygiene Foundation has arranged building laboratories in order to expand its research program and facilities The building is located near the Foundation's headquarters at Mellon Institute A FOUNDATION RUF FOUNDATION 4%: SOUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOUNDATI FOUNDATI FOUNDATION FOUNDATION J Foundation Facts isa monthly letter issued to industrial concerna holding membership in Industrial Hyglene Foundation The Foundation is a profit association of industries for the advancement of healthful working conditions 456 420 3. Vol 10 May 1948 No. 5 Annual Meeting Date Fixed for Nov. 18 Conferences Nov. 17 & 19 pr4o31- 4 P 4 meeting Trustees of Industrial Hygiene Foundation in New York recently fixed the date for the at their Spring annual 13th annual meeting of Founda- tion Members for Thursday November 18 at Mellon Institute Pittsburgh The pro- gram for this meeting will be planned for management representation from member companies Professional conferences for industrial health specialists will be held on November 17 and 19 the day before and the day after the main meeting These conferences limited to one representative for 1 physicians 2 for engineers 3 4 for attorneys compensation personnel from industrial Member companies are for chemists and toxicologists and and industrial relations executives Details concerning the Meeting and the Conferences will be sent to Mem- bers in the fall and companies will be requested to designate their representa- tives at that time Meanwhile the Staff of Industrial Hygiene Foundation invites suggestions from Members for program subject matter . Legal Committee Meets The Foundation's Legal Committee headed by Mr. Theodore C. Waters Chairman Chairman met at the Harvard Club in New York on May 6. dealt with planning the agenda for the Legal Conference in connection with the Foundation's annual meeting As . The principal discussion to be held on November 17 last year the Conference will be a half discussion Staff Traveling Extensively field i Tahflieseoolddore Theodore The Foundation's Staff is traveling extensively in connection with researches and special studies for Member companies Dr. C. Richard Walmer Medical Director covered more than 20,000 miles during the past 30 days Mr. F. Hatch Research Director and Mr. W.C.L. Hemeon Head Engineer have been spending more time in the field than at the Foundation's headquarters Mellon Institute Projects have included trial trial Engineering assistance on new plant design study of needs for an indushygiene program survey of industrial medical administration a community pollution problem and dust and fume control Dr. E.R. Weidlein Awarded Priestley Medal friend PriestlPrieestyley Flishments Dr. Edward R. Weidlein Director supporter of Industrial Hygiene Medal highest honor in American of Mellon Institute and long Foundation has been awarded the chemistry Among his other accom- Flishments Dr. Weidlein was largely responsible for planning and organizing the Bation's wartime synthetic rubber program DIAL HYGIENE HYGIENE FOUNDATION -- 4400 FIFTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 13 PA . aN \ CNet. x 21) eck Ss a SB USTRIAL USTRIAL HYGIENE : FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOUNDATI FOUNDATION FOUNDATION nnnemmnas Foundation Facts is a monthly letter issued to Industrial concerns holding membership in Industrial Hygiene Foundation The Foundation Is a profit association of Industries for the advancement of healthful working conditions Vol 10 July 1948 No. 7 Research Advisory Council Formed . . = SS Announcement is made of the appointment of a Research Advisory Council to serve the Foundation especially in connection with the operation of its new indus- trial health laboratory in the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Members of the Council all presently associated with the Foundation in various capacities are Theodore F. Hatch Secy W.A. Hamor Sc.D. T. Lyle Hazlett M.D. . A.J. Lanza M.D. Willard Machle M.D. W.P. Yant Sc.D. R.E. Zimmerman Sc.D. Research Director Assistant Director Medical Director Assoc Med Director Consultant Director of Research Vice President Industrial Hygiene Foundation Mellon Institute Westinghouse Electric Corp. Metropolitan Life Ins Co. , New York City Mine Safety Appliances Co. U.S. Steel Corp. of Del Prof. Drinker Representing Representing H at International Congress , Prof. Philip Drinker of the Harvard School of Public Health will serve as } the official representative of Industrial Hygiene Foundation at the Ninth Inter- national Congress on Industrial Health to be held in London September 12-17 since the Prof. Drinker has been chairman of the Preventive Engineering Committee formation of the Foundation in 1935. He is also a member of the Founda- tion's Board of Trustees Articles on Dust Exposure and Dust Analysis Companion articles appearing in the May 1948 Journal of Industrial L Bygiene and Toxicology are * 4 Influence of Particle Size in Dust Exposure Theodore F. Hatch and W.C.L. Hemeon Industrial Hygiene Foundation Ray Diffraction Analysis of Crystalline Dusts Harold P. Leroy Alexander and Elizabeth Kummer Mellon Institute Klug 4 Copies of these reprints are available to interested members and sub- . cribers upon request Beat the Heat Carnegie Steel Corporation Industrial Relations bheaast issued an entertaining pamphlet addressed to employees entitled beat the Heat effective Written in rhyme and illustrated with cartoons it ef ective , effective message for warm weather living Department ) How You Can carries an F HYGIENE HYGIENE FOUNDATION 4400 FIFTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 13 PA attle in and no is to crucial crucial superthe- lp undamental ax tive teach a bagis Bound gradu- gradu- er es rtude studen nts t studs ents LOBBY CONFERENCES were popular Talking in one are from left to right S. W. Gurney Liberty Mutual Insurance Company A. S. Johnson American Mutual Liability Insurance Company B. E. Kuechle Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Company of Wisconsin and W.C.L. Hemeon engineering director Industrial Hygiene Foundation COLLABORATORS Prof. Philip Hatch who Industrial Dust enjoy a chat at Prof. Drinker Com it e Committee of the Foundation and chairman Drinker left and Theodore F. the annual meeting of the Preventive Engineering Committee Committee wrote of Pittsburgh Mr. Hatch is laboratory director of the Foundation and professor Health Engineering Graduate School of Public Health University of Industria Pittsburgh