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FILE NAME: Reichhold (REI) DATE: 1971 Dec 22 DOC#: REI017 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Internal Safety Bulletin - New Federal Asbestos Standard Promulgated SAFETY BULLETIN HO. 4B-I7 r December 22, 1911 REICHHOLD CHEMICALS, INC. $A f ETV BULLETIN ATTENTION! ALL GENERAL AND PLANT MANAGERS. ENGINEERS, SAFETY DIRECTORS, SUPERVISORS, PROPCfCT MANAGERS, AND TECHNICAL SALES U. S. FEDERAL NFLLIAMS-STEIGER OCCUPATIONAL _______' SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT OF` 1970 NEW FEDERAL ASBESTOS STANDARD PROMULGATED 'OSfTA has dI cover! that c u rre n tly e ffe c tiv e 'sta n d a rd s for" ASBESTOS DUST cunceivtratlonfi are dangerous to on employee's health and ha Instituted a new emergency standard to reduce the ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATIONS OF THIS HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE. The o ld standard vas up to iz f ib e r s duet per m ill l i t t e r of atmosphere ( I t the fibers,are* groater thBn 5 microns In length') f o r an elpht-heur time-weighted average. .Thd haw emBrgencv standard Immedletely' e ffe c tiv e has reduced the parmtcslblo as not to exceed {? fib e rs par m illilit e r for the same sized p a rticle s. Employers most provide engineering controls to abate excessive dvst concentrations and provide respiratory equipment share t he controls are not feasible or capable o f controlling th& dqsf le v e l* . Requirements, have also been established for the asp o f dvst col reefing devices bend type end paver tools end for gathering-end disposing of asbestos dust. ' Am atosphere`*cpflteinlng nor than $ f ib e r s per mi ( .H itte r bat not more than. !0 fiber ta a eh 'g rea tef than 5 microns tn length) may .be phK/nttted op to o 't o t a l o f IS minutes per hbur' fo r up to jt bonds tn an eight-hour day. P ro te c tiv e re sp ira to rs vorn.by employees must'be Inspected, dam ned, regal rod, stored and ready fo r uqe in Bn e a sily accusal h ie p la c e . A ll hand dad power to o ls uplah produce ` a sb esto s.d u st must bd provided with lo c a l exhaust v e n tila tio n id duet of I'ectors. AdBesfoe oemept'musT h e 'mixed In closed aags'-or contaFriers-,, vjasto and crap` tnu.st be collected and sttfrgd or disposed lij ofosed bugs. A H clean up vbrfc must bo dode v lf h v.acuum cloangos, -- NO .HAND SWEEPING 18 ALLOWED. RI-00009 * Page 2 ' the OSHA National Concensus Standard* and Established Fader I Standard* T i t l e 29 Labor Chapter 17 Part IPI 0 In* my Safety Bollin No. 4B*2)` bar been Bnrniended In Subpart 8 to Include th in now EMERGENCY ASBESTOS atandard as SECTION 1910.93a "Asbestos Dust" under Section 1910.95 e n title d "A ir Contajalnent". AmwendmeNTs-were wade to Volume 56 o i the Federal Register as fPI01 an Auglisf 15, 1971, aird 23207 on Oecemliar 7, 1971. as nuw Section 1910.93a and found attached. Section 1316.35<o> of the Construction Safety Act be* been emmebdad to Include 1910,93, . .and Section 1910.(2 has been anwended to note t h is change. .'An PCI plan t using esbeetoa ae a m e Material In the oanufeeture of polyesters or other product should take fj&thgi*:'critical l*ek Sr It* own Method* f o r keeping the duet atmosphere of asbestos below the allow able itm fts and making certain that the protective, hoods aqd exhaust fans ore o f odequato capacity, work properly, and th a t elsenup procedures comply with the la v . A lso , make c e rta in th a t enptoyeao are provided with the praacrlhad' proteotlva devices and ate using them on the Job In every situ a tio n where the device Is required. The Cooke Colo r and Chemical (Hv is io n a t Hackett-atown, Rookport, and. VIsal la should.bring Its operations Into compliance with t h is Ipw a t once. } Peter Pesa has advised th at our polyester group has been Interested In finding a replacement fo r CAB-0-$ IL, pnd yjncg Morrow has duppLtJpd Ine. v|+k b toxicology report fFom-Unloti Carbide on it s pALIDRIA ASBESTOS whlfch o ffe rs paremlee o f doing a better Job at a more economical cost end Is derived froM the mineral e h ryso tlle which produces e leas to x ic form of asbestos than normal Iy' en countered when derived from the mineral u ro o ld q llte . Parsons working with asbestos over a lopg period of tin s some times develop d isa b lin g f orjgjJlfea.se. knpwn as A8BEST0SIS fro., b ra n d in g tb* dust, and there I* now Wdonoe th a t .one- cancerous tumor'have slap re su lted from Wfd'dly varVlng xpoetfra*. Because .efbaatps: Under a orta ln condlttons IsedpsI'deped a (jARCiNfiSEli, I t.I * bXpdpfqd that thy TLV o f 5 tor asbestos w ill evgntvd-ily be rod dead'to a T.Ly of 2 qaboetos flbpre (p articles). par mil I I H t e r o f air U N.w York c it y asbestos spraying of erruotpral ste u i.a p fire p ro o fin g construction w i l l be banned Inf e a r ly (972,. . Attached |9 O' dopy o f the now Federal Emergency Asbestos lew Section t9|0.93e. Ala enclosed le a copy of the Union Carbide "Astiestoi T o x ico lo g y Report4 doted A p ril I, 1970. " C. J . .Indoor /*! HI-000010 RI-O O Q O ll .......... - ' .................. I UNIONCARBIDECORPORATION. MININBANDMETALSOIU18iaNa7IWKAVENUENEWYORK,NEWYORK10017 ' W.EAS5 REPLY TO< " CAUOJOA ASBESTOS" - P. D. BOX 579 . NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. .14302 ASBESTOS TOKlCOJLOQr ASSORT It hat baenkuown fpr years that some persons working in asbestos production were peons to develop a disabling lung disease, In time, this condition he* came knownas asheeteato andwai related to exposure to Irish' coMonlralions j of asbestos dust. With farther experience, it was footedthat men ?ould work vrithashostsa -without development of long disease if dust .concentrations were j kept below a certain level. j It has been generally accepted that a worker will not develop acbestosie If 1 ho La exposed to no more then $ mittjnn particles per cubic foot of air. even j U this exposure continues for hie entire working lifetime. Although tu> j cases of asbestopie are known to have occurred when exposures have.been main tained at or below this level* the AGCBH (which sets the threshold limit value (TXtV)1 theB. 6- A ,) kps indicated theyIntend to lower the TlV for ashesio . to 2 million particles pw cubic &st la an effort to Increase Clio safely factor incorporatedIn the limit, The O, 5, Departpent of Labor has already issped a regulationunder th,e Vfultb^XlaalyAef^laelng the T\>V for aebeStod at Z j s^Bfon partfete* per cub|c feet for pubHo contracts In.which tfcdy have Juris- I diction.- This concentration of dust is generally not visible bt rhe sverogc work area unless a b^aip of light causing a TyhdjiH effect le present, WsuhUy the j duet concentrationVaet be from 8-10 mflHonjuyttelee per cubic feet fMPPGE) before lift presence is visible in average lighting conditions, * > *. Several yearn ago, it wag reportedthat there was an Increase in tfaa incidence o f cancerous tuasora, eepectajtyy'ofthe iung. assotd^ted a*b*W??5, Reaptly Ut'e*.iw.ve been reports,ef sen} educes* pccuyrlhg la individuaU it- pohudUSEbettos dust* but wlio luwle not developed clinical Csbeetosis. It to helietyt&]?p ut authorities thaf gyt*e caseshave baen aesoelsted yixh. c^ftpau^es gnilihsentlytocaedhlg (hy Threshold Limit Value- `A type of Rapper uampd |We*it|eHcHua has been noted to be associated with echof*0* > exposur. In recent years These tumor?', while rather few in number to dale, m?y j occur to individual with histories of only slight exposures, and that ha much as ' j twenty lofpfty years lrlit*. Thera ie considerable evidence that erocidoll*e*.i j : ipostiragufttttlyaseoejiated^lfltmeeollMhicipae. 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