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FILE NAME Insulation Contractors & Distributors ICD DATE 1973 Oct DOC ICD028 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Trade Journal - NICA <L6 I @E ON S3YUS0d Pee: etBYES6t BE JO ION tgicog SYVIA 02 w : 4 National Insulation Q Contractors Association 3 Montgomery Center 24 8630 Fenton Street 506 - Silver fi Spring Silver Spring Maryland 20910 - telephone 301-585-6623 John C. Pollock Executive Director Walter Shipe Chairman 4 NICA Publications Committee FI Officers 1973 ; W. E. Wally Munsey President d President W. Robert Murfin William A. Bayer Vice President Treasurer Long EC. Long Long Wayne W. Treasurer Kilbon Secretary Directors Board of Directors Terms Ending 1973 J. Rodger Hartley CSICA George Cummings III BASICA ade A. H. Wotherspoon MICA Raymond U. Wopperer NYSICA NYSICA bac Homer C. Porter SWICA J. S. Royer Large q Terms Ending 1974 Robert Bright CSICA Dee C. Luse MICA Palmer Covi SECIA Leroy Whitaker WICA i ; C. B. Wheatley FASICA NYSICA HHeerrbbeerrtt McMLulaluengihxliSnEISEICCAA N. Dillard SWICA James W. Liddell LargLearge Henry Truchlood WICA Immediate Past President a R. F. Pat Yount Subscription Annual 10 which 131- cluded in the Membership Dues Single copy 1.50 Controlled circulation paid at Silver Spring Md Statements of jact and opinion are made on the responsibility of the author alone and do not necessarily express the opinions of the Association Material may not be re- produced without written consent Copyright National Insulation Contractors Associati1o 97n3 TABLE OF CONTENTS The President's Letter COPYRIGHT OFFICE OCT 2 4 1973 CONGRESS_ CONGRESS_ LIBRARYLIBROAFRCYONGRESS_CONGRESS_ 3 Your Executive Director's Report 11 New Construction Must Prove Itself Labor Group to Industry 15 Mail Mail Box 18 in Your NICA NICA in Your Future FutFutuure re Join A Dozen Good Reasons to Join 21 Safety Inspection Program Shifts to TargetTargetTarget SStandat rds andSa tar ndd ardss 92 92 Asbestos Information Group Cites British Doctor's Denial of Changes 23 Asbestos in Lungs Now Detectabie Lungs Traveling Instal ation Armstrong's Traveling Installation School Teaches Mechanics How School Mechanics Mechanics To To Install Insullation You Go Alone You Don't Have To Go l Alone Childers Acquires Childers Acquires Styro Fabricators Styro Styro Fabricators 25 31 2 32 45 Meet the Speakers What's Doing in San Diego 35 NICA Announces . Management Training Program 56 October 10-12 1956 Construction Ward Stress Future Growth of Construction Industry Industry Industry to Members UU AA Members Dixon Joins Ken Dixon Joins Pamrod What's New From Manufacturers Romet Appoints From From PhaseFFoouurr toto Phase Out Out Eating Good Eating 6611 61 62 65 65 65 66 66 VOL 18 OCTOBER 1973 NO 10 pol Safety inspection program shifts to target standards Dermpational Safety and Health Act OSHA OSHA procedure officials are in the process ofchangingchanging their inspec- tion program from that of targeting industry hazards to zeroing in on most fre quently violated standards- across the board The standing target target industry approach to inspecting industry for compliance with safety safety and health standards on OSHA's priority list after investigation of catastrophes and response to complaints now on will be deemphasizedin favor of Target standards Instead of concentrat- ing on longshoring roofing and sheet metal meat products transportation equipment and lumber and wood product industries investigators will soon begin looking at how well all industries are correct- ing the most frequently violated standards as shoring and barricading trenches and excavations and violations of the National Electrical Code We're going going to start looking start looking board across violated at the most " violated standards and give those extra William F. Dwyer special assistant affairs But the voluntary aspect of this We os tors every place we'll can't try to stress have inspen The new system should be an improvement over the previous one because we'll be able to zero in standards standards on those which are being violated Dwyer said We're still proceding procedoinngworst first basis hut now we are going to look at spots where there are the heaviest concentrations of hazards He added however that the Largel industriynindudstryustry proach would not not would not be be abandoned completely ap- One reason for the reversal of inspection pro- eedure was givengiven by ChainRobbins Deputy Deputy Assist ant Secretary ofLabor who pointed out that 95 of all citations issued by have ed only 29 standards OSOHA SHA to date involv and only 15 ofthose ac- counted for 75 of the violations cited According to Robbins most violations generallgyenerally involve mach- guarding electrical fireextinguishers extinguishers floor and walking and working surfaces and flammablfelammable and combustible liquids violations represent represent represent real hazards An OSHA of violations involving stand- ards related to training requirements shows that the medical and first aid category category the major problem area followed by power trucks and motor vehicles 22 22 22 equipment operation and general requirements requirements among others The OSHA inspectors have also been forced by circumstances to sacrifice many of the random inspections because of they had planned to the numerous recent make mainly catastrophes-- Supply Board of Water the New York > new water tunnel under Manhattan have occurred this year The randoms have suffered Dwyer Dwyer Dwyer conced conceded there is no reason to think these will pick up Dwyer curently talking to numerous industry , sociai and union groups around the country sn effort to expand the information that is getting out about OSHA He is offering to supply data on inspections to anyone anyone requesting it also said that in spite of some court setbacks the program of transferring inspection responsibil- ities from the federal government to the states is succeeding Most states have submitted OSITA enforcement plans for approval and nine have been approved to date In the interim federal OSHA officials have contracted with with individual individual states 19 provide the necessary bispection for OSHA Statutes until individual state aforong plans approveit " 1175 NE 125th Sr No Miami | DIRECT TELETYPE TO z NICA OUTLOOK 3 7 ey Asbestos information group cites British doctors denial of charges Reprinted from BYU's BYU's Occupational Health & Safely Reporter The assault on the asbestos standard by Dr. Irving J. Selikoff of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York was unjustified Matthew Swetonic executive secretary Asbestos Information Association of North America wrote Assistant Labor Secretary John H. Stender on July 24 The present permissible concentration of asbest- os of five fibers per cubic centimeter will remain in effect until July 1 1976 under the asbestos standard adopted by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in June 1972 Reference File 3304 The two fiber standard is due to take effect in 1976 is well known that OSHA intends to review the standard Swetonie said Many doctors and representatives of organized labor have unjustifiably attacked the standards as being totally insufficienitnsufficient to protect asbestos workers The most serious serious assault was delivered by Selikoff at the 1973 American Industrial Hygiene Association ConferenceConference Selikoff maintained that new research in Great Britain proved that the British Occupational Hy giene Society BOHS recommended two fiber standard upon which the OSHA standard is largely based was no longer adequate as a safe exposure exposure level Swetonin said Because of the seriousness of this allegation Selikoff's comments were brought to the attention of those doctors in Great Briatin whose research was being interpreted On July 12 a letter from Dr. H. C. Lewinsohn and Dr. S. Holmes was sent to SelikofSeflikof pointing out serious errors in his interpretation of their research data ASBESTOS FREE High Temperature sprayed FIBER INSULATION In Every important Category CERAMOSPRAY has demonstrated on the job Superiority Applied Applied Costs -- Low 8 Thermal Conductivity - LOW a Flame Spread -- Low * MechanicalSupport Minimum No Health Hazard * Tested by Jefferson Medical College * Application Application Just Overspray LOW Resistance to Weather - Excellent Resistance to Contraction Excellent Resistance to Expansion Excellent Resistance to Thermal Shock Excellent Resistance to IV.F.P -- Has U.L. Labei highest CERAMOSPRAY SPRAYED FIBER INSULATIONS have the use limits of many sprayed liber insulations and have been appied as thermal insulation to many areas where thtehe temperature exceeds 2000 | turbine have CERAMOSPRAY BLENDShave been tested and used byby utilities refinaries and specifying agencies They been approved for use by many manufacturersand boiler manufacturers CERAMOSPRAY PRODUCTS are ideal for Power Stations Marine Boilers Chemical Process Plants Retineries Metallurgical Plans Industrial Heating Units and wherever critically efficient insulatiion nsulation is needed and CERAMOSPRAY DIVISION DIVISION j NICA OUTLOOK British Comment In their letter to Selikoff the British doctors said We are also very displeased at the manner in which you have used the information we provided in order to launch what appears to us to be a poltical campaign in the U.S.A. aimed at discrediting our Hygiene Standard for asbestos We cannot accept the implication that the HCL H. C. Lewinsohn publication allows doubt to be cast on the Asbestos in lungs now detectable This clipping was submitted by Palmer Covil who informed us " is out of a medical magazine One of the local doctors gave this to us One of the basic problems facing asbestos work ers and others subject to inhalation of asbestos particles is that there has been no way physicians could determine whether accumulations of asbestos in the lungs have occurred until cancer develops possibly as many as 20 or more years later Now a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology has developed a technique using magnetic validity of the BOHS standard and are of the opin- ion that such a conclusion is unwarranted Swetonic told Stender that because several OSHA personnel attended the AIIIA meeting it was imperative that OSHA be immediately informed of the true state of affairs with regard to this situation so that Selikoff's comments could be evaluated in their proper light detection methods to determine if asbestos work ers have large potentially harmful accumulations Noting that chrysotile asbestos which constitutes about 95 percent of the world's supply is ferromagnetic David Cohen Ph.D. reasoned that a magnetometer could be used to detect unhealthy accumulations of asbestos in the lungs This is not result of the intrinsic properties of asbestos it is traceable to highly ferromagnetic magnetite particles that adhere to and are seldom separated from the asbestos fibers in the vein from which asbestos is mined Thus by use of a simple commercial magnetometer as those now used at airports to screen skyjackers these ferromagnetic deposits can be detected long before any sign of asbestos would show up on chest X rays a SAMNATION SAMNATION SAMNATION fpin! BROWN MUD is an air setting finishing cement for indoor application It is intended to be used in place of Blue Mud or 7M Asbestos Cement It gives a smooth white finish without the use of asbestos fiber OBNREOWSNHOMTUIDNSFUILNAITSIHNIGNGCE CMEEMNETNT t 1 HIGH MASTER CEMENT DELTA MINERAL WOOL BOARD FELTED MINERAL WOOL BLANKET GLASS TAPE 20079D All Rock Wool products are asbestos free ROCK WOOL MANUFACTURING COMPANY Leeds Alabama Phone 205 699-6121 OCTOBER 1973