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u* |"y*TIQW*L INSULATION -----MANUfACTURMf Agl'N. PUBLISHED BY NATIONAL INSULATION MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION, INC Ml lixington Avg,, Niw York, NX 10017 / Extcutivt Sterility l H Bimhift August 1968 Voi. 3. No. 2 health Safety Practice* Uittd An Two New NIMA Booklet* | Two pockrtafxed booklets covering I rueammsndsd health safety practices [ for handling thermal imuUtlon prod* ! ucu have beta issued by NIMA. Tbe booklet* are intended foe oae by ooo* tractorv applicators aad distributors' supervisory pcnoonaL Tbe eeatanta of ttooommondfi Health Safety Prttictt fir Handling and Applying Thermal Innlatmn Prod* acre Camtaining Athanat art.* Houseketpiog Pipe and block Innfcttooe Cement* Spraying of Tfetrsallamhtto Stripptngof Thermal 1mutation Respiratory Equipment The contents of Aarommaedad Health Safety Practical /or Handling and Applying Thermal fnnlatiaa Prod* ueu Containing Mineral flkore ere; Housekespiag Physical contact with Mineral Fibers Exposure to Exeauive Miaerai Fiber Ousts ReipirnoryEgulpmcat For copies of aither booklet, svrfce la: Executive Secrttery National Insulation Manufacturer* Association da I Lasinjion Avenue New York. New York 10017 Contractor Enthusiasm Prompts Stcond Round Of Region*! Meetings on Kulth pnd Safaty The Htehh Safety program* Mamed last year to the eight rvoional associations of insulation comneton by tbe NIMA Education and Legislation Committee proved so valuable tbe contractor groups enthusiastically asked for repeat performances this year. Tbe Education and Legislation Committee, together with T. R. Irodie. vies president of Insulation Distributor Contractors National Association, already has appeared he'ore ftvt regional associations this year. It is scheduled to meet with the *vmeming three groups la the feU. ; Imendod to am at a forum far die srewntirtcs of factual Information`on health, safety, legislation, workman'* eompemauoe and other subjects, the Health Safety prw* paa follow* e prescribed format at each meeting. Highlight* of the program art: Contractor* are advind af the currtai status of baaith aad safety actrvHms pertinent li tbeir buriama. Legislative action is discussed with particular emphasis on details of the proposed Federal Occupational Health and Safety Act of IHt. Contractors art gives copies ef two booklets recently tmued by NIMA: "fterem. e mended Health Safety Froctktt for Handling end Applying Thermal fntulerion Products Containing Aihetm" and "Rttommended Health Safery froetieet for Handling and Afflying Thermal insolation Prodeco Containing Mineral Fihen.m Tbe contents of both booklets srt reviewed. Tbe merits of proposed pr"employment and periodic physical examination pro* . grams on e cooperative employer"employee beta are discussed. There is a dbcunion of litigation including preparation of a workmen's companaa. doe east, record keeping and dispositionof a case. Two paper* concerning medical research iidormatioe arc distributed and dlseumod. Ooa paper relates to asbestos and the other as mineral fiber*. T. JL Irodie. ef IDCNA, eaplsim to each regional group why k b Important that tbe activities ef IDCNA end NIMA be coordinated through effective communications at the regional as well as el the national level. He urges these regions that have not already dona so to establish their own regional Health and Safety Committee. The meetings dose with a question and answer period. According to those *v hove attended several senIona, eontractor mttnat has bee* so intense that th* ' MHlon usually taka eonsderibty more time then any other. The Health Safety program.*** prepared for NIMA by Cliff Stockier. John Vyw*- berg, Kerry Mater end Ed Edwards, member* of the Education and rAr*'**'TM Commute. and Jack Aamhar*. executive secretary. no 4ni n i o t Rresentstlofl* 'her CgM Region* By request, NIMA'i Health Safety. Irun it being repeated at ^ tht metting* of til tight regional insulation contractors. Thia a tht schedule of 1961 meeiia* it eady held and still ponding: Midwest Insulation Contrtctore Aat^ datioe. Kansu City, Mo* May I. Presiding: C. C. Johnson Health A Safety Chairman: R. Flugge Central Suits Insulation Contractors Msouiaiion, French Lick. lnd*May 16. Presiding: D. Huffman Health Safety Chairman: Oordoo Har riaoe , South West Inewlatlon Contractors As sociation. Biloxi. Mbs, May 23. Presiding: C. E. Foster Health A Safety Chairas*: J. Otamben Northeastern Inauiation Contractors Association and New York State Insula* tion Contractors Association, joint nett* inf. Sturbridgt, Maas., 3um S. Presiding. NICA: W. B. Wilkae Health A Safety Chairman: T. R. Brodia Presiding. NYS1CA: D. Dtderick Health A Safety Chairman: B. L. Kime Associated Asbestos Contractors of the Southeastern Suits, WaynavUle, H. C* October 21*22. Fresiding: G.W.Vott, Jr. Health A Safety Chairman: R. T. Dcnn Associated itmilatioo Contractors of the Western States, Laka Tahoe, Calif* October 23*25. Presiding: 0. Bradshaw Health A Safety Chatman: K. M. McCaffrey . Middle Atlantic Inauiation Contractors Mociation, Morgantown, W. Va* dan J be announced. Presiding: w. H. Morris Health A Safety Chairman: W. K. Sfcfpo that e systematic program be set up to jiuf* this m done. Approved respiratory equipment should be used in all operations where duet con* t*ol is not adequate Only U. J. Bureau of MWapproved respiratory equipment b recommended for utc with mineral fibers, silica and asbestos, lists of currently approved respiratory cAuipment can be obtained from: Birtau of Mince VIS. Department of the Interior Nineteenth and E Streets N.W. Washington. D.C. 202*0 Nl|fiA Officer* 1967-1961 Prfcide*/ R.W. Henry iubcrotd Dtv. of General Aniline Film Corp. Vift FresJdear T.fi. Dousing Vony-Eight Insulation, la*. J. F. Vyverberg Owena-Corning Ftbergles Corp. EarewWv# Stcreury J. M. Barnhart Board of Directors R.&. Naylor Johne*Manvflk Sales Corp. T. $ Dousing Forty-Eight Insulation, Inc R.W. Henry GAF (Rubcroid Div.) F. D. Raley FFG Industries B. L. Strickland Canain*Teed-Saint Gobain lac. 3. F. Vyverberg Owena-Corning Fibergtaa Corp- M.M. Wilson Baldwin-Ehret-Hin, Inc TBIF.MAL INSULATION Efconomic* of Insut.tlon^^*^5^*110^"- VT. KXSCO, HIT YOBC 1M49 Irsuiatlon Coats teas Than Lerring a that the difference baresta the cost from Sratam Bare, System Analysis Show* 1 tin 1VS inch thickness was 3604, but this While comparing capital coats and oper difference would save 3160 of steam cost. ating savinp for individual aegments of a pi*nt demonstrate the savings readily pey of* the capital la the fim year, an even ok re telling example of insulaitop's value lae .rcemonstrated when a whole ryctaa la eagmirnod. i Tsa bash of the analysis of a eompleta The difference between IV* and 2 inch thicknma wns 3104 and would un ia additional 3122 annually. But tha differ, enea between 2 end 2VS inch thickneu was 31,119 and would save only 364 sddi* tionaJIy. Thus 2 inch wat the optimum thtoknem. Housekeeping Procedure* Important Phase of Any Saftty Program *rVstem of vessels, pipes and flanges oo the ooat of the equipment required to deliver the required amount of staam for an *ofaaulatad system compared to the coat of Insulation on Fipc Returns 19$% Every Year The heat tom through a run of uninsu An organised housekeeping program should be maintained in U arm and on It operations at all tunes when working with insulation products containing as* beetoe or mineral fibers. Loose materials, scrap and debris are major sources of airborne dust.When these are allowed to lie around the job or storage areas they can be trampled on, ran over and tracked around. Much of this airborne contamination ean be eliminated by exor cising simple good housekeeping practices. Specific standards and practices dm designed for providing safe, dean and orderly working eondittoos shoutd be do* fined. The keys to effective dust control and health protection are efficient supervision, systematic cleaning and day to day follow* P- { srt of Respiratory Equipment ?uld Follow Systematic Program the designed efficiency and affective* nets of respiratory equipment ie depend* ent upon proper care, cleaning and main* *na*ce. Therefore. NIVA recommends equipment and the coat of Insulation. It h vary apparent that the capital investment required from steam capacity to supply the bore surface teas b always more than the ooat of inauiation pfua the required Inventmeat far steam capacity to supply tht loan through the inauiation. For example, a system of 6 inch pipes operating at 400 F consists of 1000 feet of pipe, 100 pnin of fiangns and 10 valve*. With no insulation on the system capital btvaumcat in steam producing equipment to supply (ha steam loesm would he for pipm-315.900; fUngso-34.900; vatvm11,450; for a total capital investment tom of 122,340. Optimum insulation thkbmm was do* termined by comparing the total capital oosts for insulating the entire system (plus the capital Investment to supply the heat tom) with 1, lVS, 2 end 2vs inch thick imutattoa layers. These tou! costs are: ! inch-36.672; !VS lneh-37.276: 2 taeh -31,010; 2Vi iach-39.269. It wm found lated 4 inch pipe carrying iteem at 500 F mums steam praaurm todropl.6!pouods very operating hour. But a capital invertmeat of only 33S3 la insulation ean pro duce a return of 195 % every year for every foot of pipe. The per foot cost of capital awmtment to supply steam used to make up heat tom In the unlmulated pipe would be 316.71. At 30SO per mm of rtcam the cow of steam tom would be 37JS per year. Insulating the pipe with 2 inch thick *mulatioo (the economic optimum thieknen for that stoe pipe operating et that high temperature) would reduce the cost of the steam tom m only 30.91 per foot ro a year. Soct two Inch ihsulstien costs 53-55 per foot, the saving in steam production coat would ha 36.90 per foot per year. Therefore, even Ignoring the capita! invest* meat to produce the steam, the 35-55 ini tial investment in insulation returns 193% by the end of the first year, and k will pro duce sn aqua! return for every year of the plant's operation. 02 401 0486 4