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. coifeats . KELLY . LATSKO **TEL " ^ftQSSQW s -S1TADK1IAH- .^SKINNER .JIMETH-- . SMITH ^ ETURN TO &UU- '&Q- Yvsf <2I_ (3)_ EMPLOYMENT SAFETY AND ...... ^ GUIDE I4>- [467NUMBER APRIL 22, I960 "UlUrifflBft is iSTiwo parUT !fhUl la gnt U OSHA to Lower Asbestos Exposure Limit ;*V: Based on an April NIOSH/OSHA work group recommendation that .the,' present eight-hour TWA asbestos limit be lowered from 2.0 to.0.1 fibers longer than 5 micrometers per cubic centimeter of air, OSHA will: begin ,wpr.kihg o a revision to 1910.1001 and hopes to develop a new.requirement within six months, Director Eula Bingham announced April 18. Bingham said1 OSHA will develop the proposal under its cancer policy but .it has not -yet decided what the permissible level will be or whether au^emergency temporary or permanent standard will be proposed. ,1 1 NIOSH director Anthony Robbins said-at the joint jbiaFlA-NlOSH news briefing that the work group report. Workplace Exposure to Asbestos: Review and Recommendations, shows there is >rio known level'at which asbestos-related diseases do not occur, and that atltcommercial'arjd several noncommercial forms of asbestos cause disease, NIOSH Recommends that all workplace ' exposure from new nonessential, inses of asbestos be eliminated. Asbestos, to which 1.4 million workers are. exposed, causes the serious form of long fibrosis known :as asbestosis, as well as cancer ofi the'lung, chest and abdominal cavity membrane, larynx, stomach and intestines. ' Between eight and eleven million workers have been exposed to asbestos since World War II.-.Robbins sald.and tens of thousands of cancer deaths are attributable to asbjestos. Even-if all new uses of asbestos were now eliminated, there'will contiriue-to be 'exposure for. years to come among maintenance and demolition wdrkCrs, Robbins'said. -.The report recommends more-stringent , .medical testing, moraitpripg, and rate retention provisions. ---- ---05HA, Reopens 'Ngise Standard Rule-Making Record V.has-.reopened the noise standard. rule-making record closed -in to include^articles and documents on noise issued since then, according' * -Jo' an April J:8 Federal Register notice. The Agency is seeking comments on the new,, documents, which pertain to noise monitoring, hearing protection, .jgj. '------'----- --;--------- - --------------1---------------'-------- !-------- i--------- --------- - Commerce, Clearing. House.Jimc.,. l ft . PUBLISHERS y- . TOPICAL LAW REPORTS 4025 W. PETERSON AVE., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 00646 v:. V "I:. fy: \ ' :va & i\y<sS tt3 J nrrfoAC /yen-; SCF-EC-1970 FAW 10762