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THc JOURNAL OF COMMERCE, Wednesday, Jone ?6,1974 OSHA Vinyl Chloride Proposal Hit The iCj-.v also rl'.sm mat .'n:TOf!;en and tttoior ve- he ie v;<ii s would bo putticu- larly hard-im, became >*t their cvgrtt.- ot t:e;*-m.i*r,fy co PVC ri -.a." Ptnctu-.-tion licitd'Civlis tvvni.-l > rx-.-ur :c. >; .................u. ; i. -C'ir..ii:u- ! on l v ;e IS* By DAN SKAI.TVKHT Journal ul Commerce Staff WASHINGTON - Pi i.posed government limits on worker exposure to vinyl c blonde are r.ot technologically feasible and could cause the loss ol more than wo million |cbs. plastics industry spokesman warned yesterlay as several days of Labor Department hearings on the standards be- gon. The Occupational Safety and Health Adtmrtistiation IO-SHA) has pirpr-i-.! that al lowable employe exposure to vinyl chloride be reduced to "no detectable level." An emergency temporary stan dard is now in eftvi t limiting It to 30 parts |a-r million parti of air to which w-oikt-ts are exposed. ' This standard. Issued in April, represented a censtd- J crable reduction it cat the 5W> " TPM guideline waicii hud been in el met previously. OSHA came cut w.ih it toilow- ing reports ct several workers exposed to vinyl chloride hat ing died from liter rar.ecr. The even tnu.tiier "no tletec. table ievel 'M-.iieutd wa; pro posed in May soon alter labo ratory studies u::h mice in- d.cated that tr.e 30 PPM cnn- 1 Cc-ntraiion hart resulted m some o| the teoenta i.twl, opm g lttct cat'cei-. Vinyl vhlou-tc is widely usea in the iv..r.v.LM-'uie of ph'istn;,, and that 'naustry is gtcutly come, nek that the rig orous new ga.dcl'.ne, if auopled, Ci-.'ii clippie it. Amur.:: the 1.0-vJ by pi i;t:c., .ti-'i'.i i. y i; pi, < a::t- live-, te-u-ui.e. ,i.i`. a Mi;,;y<>f the economic iu-tm-t the pro- posed at.Mid.mi eon!,! lute. The rep'rt. *.-> irtty Ar- tlmr D. Little, Itic . lor the Soc.oty ,>t Ire I'l.isl,. > li., tin- ii y, <-imu i t-,, III It ",ii: i:s- TUe'l, tie s'-ll '"All lit .ill |K||. jMiiyl chloride :istn plants in the U. 8." i on.d rcMilt. tiilh tl.e lots of 17 l>> li t! miiiim j.til III It.II l.li,,n . .iii.l i.-l.if,cl 111,1,1 'I 1'"'. .Mol .Ml .Mill,lot 1M<, itu, I .on to. :, , .in.;in,; up ,l> $ H bdiiori. OS11A Vinyl j Chloride j Proposal Hit ; rContinued from Pace Ji auUted wire and c-io.e, the re- j port asserts. j Industry spelt---men urged t that alternative xtandards lie i' adopted in<tca(f. which they said would'be more realistic ! and give factories anvple time I to comply. They suggested that a ceding of 40 PPM be | act. effective Oct. 5, with a j Other Testiinaay Other testimony yesterday included awounu of experimer.u on laboratory- mice who w.e e\p- ,-si to vin)l j culortue botti ,n Uij> country and :n Italy. A ulegiam was read /roir. Proitrior Cesare Maltunt, was reported that out of CO m.ae m Bo.ogna exposed to 50 PPM for seven months, cencer had been detected in 13 instances. A total of 95 individuals or organizations have Hiked to testify at the hearings, winch are slated to run at least through Saturday. Testerdays opening session was expected to extend well into the eve maximum afiowable daily ; time-weighted average of 3 PPM. On Oct. 5 or next jejr, the ceiling would become 35 PPM, with no tiir.e-weignted j average. On Oi.t. 5. IDTii. a ; maximum ttnte weighted av erage of 10 PPM would go into effect, with the ceiling re rt,ng. Meanwhile, in a related de velopment on Capitol Hill, a spokesman for the U. S. Chamber ol Commerce told a House .-ubvomnuttoe hearing that OSHA should be required to submit a "cost impact" statement with each new safetv- or health standard it pro poses. "The coif of Complying maining at 33P1'M. 'Hie abme ,>t <utaro's would apply to pays in, t chlorine re sin plants. So.-.h-v. ha: dttfuer.i I standards wen sugge-ted fir 1 with OSHA ra.ses the cost of doing business," Richard B. Berman testified, m urging that "the imposition ol mw compliance costs without a re sultant btnviit justifying that vinyl chlortnc :r. nenter pro- I cost" be avoided whenever during planus. Tut re, Iho m o'u.iiry said, a < citing of I PPM should ,,o into efl- i-t in ` October, with a 10 PPM ccii- I ing being ii.vl.sd in three | possible, Mr, Berman, the U.S. cham ber's director of labor Jaw, said a basic change was reeded in OilIA to put greater years. A r.'.ix.mum time- ( weighted nvi-i.'.e or 10 PPM j01 would apply irrailly and be I lowered to 5 Ft 'M in 19T7. ; reliance on voluntary com pliance by-business and in dustry rattier than on punitive action. | As the heartn-v opened yes- ! terduv, OiHA e.ttcui Daniel j V. t'oyd em;iha.i.*eil that all j of t!:e !;-.-tit:-,>i:y being heard 1 this week vv.11 to- taken into ! consdenikoi: l-.iore a (it.il ] slandUid in .-.-.i-d, anu that the c'-r.tro'.vi-ia| pin;v-,-ed | star lard i;. im r-f now, "just I that -- a pH , - The i-:i.-j;. i.: in < jot) \ )'*> * -,.MJ -i ! ' t.'l ill M-'-table i, i- 1" ,`r t'-lau- ;-<i mm < c-'ic t. w. j .,;,n ra..-1-ii ycMcr- ; day hy r.a..e F. \i,`Lci*r, il iCfM'c-u-nt.it o' tea l'>iiyvi nyl C:., r.-lc i i'an;: Mai'u'.iet-aii :s r, n.: ....... 1 ia .-.ii,| the Jiim,-,,i! - ,..) i ' -. i. I Went, I hr:' .-.is. ",: "a .-,-i .-.na c,j itwv.tc d. in his in- iht.'try iitnl oi.tis it, pendent on it. 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