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FILE NAME: American Cyanamid (AMCY) DATE: 1951 DOC#: AMCY012 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Published Article from Trade Journal -Training for Disaster -i>/ C <-- ri ^ ;v N C.LA-.> k \ u } \aJ Is J jC L ^ 2 q- BUS I NES S & INDUSTRY" rv2 , ti, 3 it's a case ol being forewarned and forearmed." Bradley adds that the program is meant to supplement anv existing ones of either federal or local government. But the crews will have more equip ment at their disposal than many good sized municipalities. Industrial hygiene: The new duty will be an additional function for Cvanamid's Centra! Industrial Hy giene Staff. In its 7 year existence the department has gained wide accept ance as an integral part of the com pany's operations. Actually, the staff is a four man team, captained and quarterbacked by Bradlev. Each man is a specialist in one or more fields of toxicology, chemistn and engineering. But each man is a general practitioner too, m the sense that lie is capable of find ing and correcting the root of indus BLUEPRINT FOR SAFETY: Cynnamul's Bri Bradley charts critical area. trial health hazards. Since the staff is an impoitant part Training for Disaster of the company-wide-emplos ee health program, it is directly responsible to the Central Medical Department. It American Cyanamid trains crews on disaster relief and damage control in event of atomic bombing attack. works through and with other com pany and plant staff groups (research, production, etc.) but is not hidebound Techniques of radioactivity detection will be taught by Central Industrial Hygiene Staff. New duty will be another important job for hygiene staff, a key factor in company employee health program. bv anv rigorous set of regulations. It can, and often does, deal directly with the employee himself. In addition the hygiene staff must be ever alert to the possible misuse of a product by consumers and the Within the next few weeks, Ameri can Cyanamid will inaugurate a pro gram designed to train 24 three-man either the near or the remote future? "Not at all," says Bradley. "But as long as the possibility exists, we can. resulting customer complaint. In such cases the hygienist deals with the cus tomer through the sales department. crews in the technique of disaster re and will be, prepared. Simply stated, lief and damage control. The step is Bradley points out that the indus- part of the company's overall plan to protect personnel and combat local panics in the event of an enemy bombing attack. Management believes that these crews, when their training rad io activity detection is complete, will serve as the "know how" nuclei in the various plants on CENTRAL M ED IC AL DEPARTM ENT . A TM O SPH ERE SAM PLIN G a ANALYSIS the subject of what-to-do-if-a-bomb- CENTRAL INDUSTRIAL CONTROL OF ENVIRONMENT hits. To gain a closer look at Cyanamia's h y g ie n e STAFF U. (W . BR A D LEY ! A IR PO LLU TIO N CONTROL program, C h e m ic a l In d u str ies W e e k interviewed Bill Bradley, chief of the Central Industrial Hygiene Staff. X E M P L O Y E E EDUCATION T O X IC O LO G Y Bradlev's stock-in-trade is the elimi nation of industrial health hazards and Sa fety p r o d u c t io n in s u r a n c e he is preparing to take on the biggest CENTRAL EN G IN EERIN G sla n t st a ff group health hazard of all . . . the atom bomb. On the shoulders of Bradley RESEARCH LEG A L SALES and his staff will fall the responsibility of instructing the disaster crews on em plo yees CuSTO M uH s the use of radiation detection equip ment. Does the program indicate the com CENTRAL INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE STAFF plays major role in company healt pany expects an atomic attack in program. Coal is protection of customers and employees. March 3, 1951 Xs BUSINESS & INDUSTRY trial hygienist meets his toughest test in the chemical process industries. Not only must lie be familiar with the toxic aspects of a number of chem icals, but he is constantly faced with the task of seeing that proper precau tions are taken in the case of new products. Most new products are handled long before thev are placed on the market and many of them have prop erties that make them health hazards even during the experimental and pilot-plant stages. To insure safe pro duction-plant design, the industrial hygienist is oiteri consulted at the blueprint stage of the process. One notable result of this close co operation between process design and industrial hygiene is the blueprint marking svstems for vent lines. Former'.v, these were indicated by an ar row pointing up (to an outlet in the ceiling 1 or an arrow pointing down (to an outlet m the sewer}. Now, vers often, vent lines lead to condensers, scrubbers or other trap ping devices. And it is not unusual for the additional equipment entailed to pay for itself in recovered product. A case in point; Dust fumes weie a problem in an operation at one of Cyanamid's large plants. The dust had not proved harmful, but constituted a nuisance for workers. The industrial hygiene staff, when consulted, recom mended a trap. The trap increased individual productivity by eliminating the nuisance. In addition, the recov ered dust paid for the cost of instal lation in less than a year. Surveys: One of the most impoitant duties of the industrial hygiene staff is to make periodic studies and sur veys of plants. The survevs show what benefits have resulted from past rec ommendations and indicate what steps are desirable for the future. The studies are based on personal observation of working places plus data obtained by physical measure ments and chemical determinations. Among the physical measurements that might be made are temperature and humidity recordings, sound in tensity and vibration frequency, radi ation measurements, interferometer measurements, and dust counts. Chemical determinations include air sampling and analysis to determine concentration and nature of contamin ants under working conditions. Equipment: To obtain these meas urements, the industrial hygiene team at American Cyanamid has at its dis posal a wide variety of instruments. The portable interferometer measures the difference in refractive index be tween pure an and air containing solvent vapors. It sites an e isv onthe-spot determination of vapoi con centration in the aii. Other instruments fiequenth used me. the electrostatic precipitator and midget impmget foi collecting dust samples the veiometei. with attach ments, for studs mv plant ventilation, and various .nsti irnents for mc.isuung concentration ot g.ises. Plain Talk Chemical companies, alone wito otheis can take heart t.om the gov ernment policy of phia'inp new direc tives. Price Stahii:/.ei DiSalle (,to name onel is pioneering a movement to have all ordeis vvntten in a read able. undeistnndoble style. .MIKE DJ SALLE. Double-talk is out. D'.Salle goes over every order with a pencil before signing it But the streamlining process starts betore chat. Public relations men from the Eco nomic Stabilization Agcr.cv and the National Production Agencv sit in at the first draft of every ordei. Their job is to see that down-to-earth words are used wherever possible. Thev do not, of course, change substmre. World War II: The edicts are still not models of liter.in composition, but then are a far erv from some of the epics turned out bv World War i l 's OPA. Fo: ex.unn'e. a sentence from the fiist p a g e of levisej maxi mum puce regulation \ n 169, a 7Spage mr..t order issued or. Feb. 22, 1944. leads: "Insofar as tins regula tion uses specifications vs`rich were not. ptior to such use, m general roe in the trade oi indent.v aifn led. or in sofar as their u-e was not lawfully requiied bv arothci government agen cv. the administrator has determined with respect to such standardization, that no practicable alternative exists for securing effective price control with respect to this regulation." In or out of context that sentence is almost impossible to understand. Apparently, it is a justification of the method of control. Now-. In sharp contrast to that, is the recent order issued by the Office of Price Stabilization, The order will bring meat slaughterers under special license A sentence from the order: `This order is a necessary step in a large effort to prevent dislocation of the normal channels of distribution for moat, with the resulting hardship to business and consumers." The catch: Despite the improve ment, lawyers mav yet be necessary for interpreting the edicts. Orders that are readable are fairly easy to w'rite. But they make for loopholes and sometimes create hardship cases. When the government starts writing orders to cover every' possible case, it may have to use the string of depend ent clauses that go to make up "govemmentese." Basin Reports Within the week, the Public Health Service is expected to issue the first of its fifteen basin reports. First report will cover water pollution in the Tennessee River busm. Succeeding ones (to be published during spring and summer} will cover remaining rivers in the U.S. The reports are intended tc serve as a basis for a com prehensive pollution control program. Public Health Service sa\s that the country needs 6.500 municipal sew erage treatment plants and 3,400 industrial waste water treatment works. Figures on industrial waste treatment are not complete. One reason is that data on some sections of the country are not available. Federal law passed in 1948 author ized $22.5 million for financing the building of sewerage treatment plants. However, neither the SOth nor 81st congress appropriated the sum. Late last year, $1 million was passed out to the states for research on industrial waste. The law provides funds for study of industrial waste treatment only. In dustry cannot get money as loans or grants to help build treatment works. Dr Leonard A Scheele (surgeon general of the L S HHS,i says that doubled industrial production of the last fifteen years has taken its toll of oiir usable vvates resources. And the M rrrr-Vi 0 1Q 1 oi