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FILE NAME: General Refractories Company (GRC) DATE: 1956 Nov DOC#: GRC029 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Excerpt of Minutes - 21st Annual Meeting of the IHF - Documenting Recognition of Duty UA i/ m y Date: November, 1956 Description: 21st Annual Meeting of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation Exhibit No.: P-West-176 (Comment: Dr. Zapp: "The term `toxic material' is subject to very many interpretations by different people ... And then, since a precise definition that would fit all circumstances is not possible, the Committee felt that any substance that when improperly used may produce harm by chemical action, should be provided with an appropriate cautionary label or statement, et cetera." fn 25 n [emphasis added] Recognition oi Duty Date: November, 1956 Description: 21st Annual Meeting of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation Exhibit No.: P-West-176 Comment: Dr. Zapp: "Now it seems to me that the manufacturer has a very definite responsibility to his customers and to the public, and that is to point out to them how his product can be used with safety. Nothing can interfere with that responsibility on the part of the manufacturer ... We know, for example, that two substances may be equally toxic but quite different in respect to hazard. Thus, it should be the industrial hygienist's responsibility to accumulate all the information that is available, and it should be his responsibility to digest this information and determine to what extent more information is needed, because he can't limit his responsibility by simply saying that only so much is known about the substance and, therefore, decisions have to be based upon this limited data." (p. 254) [emphasis added] Recognition of Duty Date: November, 1956 Description: 21st Annual Meeting of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation Exhibit No.: P-West-176 Comment: Dr. Bachman: "I can only add to Mr. Hatch's remarks by calling attention to an action one company is taking. They bring in the customer's employees who are going to use this material and give the employees of the customer a course in the handling of it. Now this, I think, is an excellent approach when you get to extremely hazardous conditions. I don't know of anything that you can do beyond that." (p. 258) [emphasis added] Recognition ol Duty Date: November, 1956 Description: 21st Annual Meeting of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation Exhibit No.: P-West-176 Comment: Dr. McGee: "I think the only successful programs that I have observed elsewhere, outside of our organization, are those in which the employee has some knowledge of why he follows certain operating procedures regardless of what the end effect is of the material or the end effect might be in the materials that he handles. Therefore, I would say that we mast give the employee that knowledge so that he can understand! and use it in coming to a conclusion as to why he most do certain things to protect himsell. 1think the same statements apply to organized groups and safety committees and union leaders." (p. 272) [emphasis added] Date: November, 1956 Description: 21st Annual Meeting of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation Exhibit No.: P-West-176 Dr' Bachma" : ">would like to comment awareness yo"u meaur`s"t sraqy"tehSa,tia"cs'omTpany has to tell .,,employees * "re of the L 'e r l ' winch they are handling, whether the, a" " t i c or carcinogenic, because you can never have a safetv program unless you give the people working with i don t think that was ardequeartieal,ys esmucphhaisnifzoerdmbaetfio-re " (P- 276) [emphasis added]