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FILE NAME Industrial Hygiene Foundation IHF DATE 1943 Sept DOC IHF023 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION IHF - Foundation Facts ae ve ete ee eee --~- --snremanipenaennianneamaaaae cr oy i i is _ 6: JUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOUNDATI FOUNDATI FOUNDATION FOUNDATION : . . : letter Foundation Facts is monthly issued to industrial concerns holding membership in Industrial Hygiene Foundation The Foundation is a combined research and service institution to protect the health of workers in industry ; ey Vol 5 , September 1943 NoSN. No. 9 NS Preview of Annual Meeting Program conference dustrial The program for the eighth annual meeting and second war of In- and 11 Hygiene Foundation will to be held at Mellon Institute Pittsburgh November 10 be highlighted by a panel discussion on Putting the Disabled Veteran Back to Work Dr. C.D. Selby Medical Consultant General Motors will | of the mooting is Maintain ; preside Theme ee Manpower . _ ee eee Chairman The Medical Section presided over by Lt. Col. A.J. Lanza MC of the Foundation's Modical Committee includes ue Effects of Certain Inhaled Chemicals upon the Eye Fluorides as an Industrial Health Problem Results of an Eight Year Observation of Chests of a Group ne of An date report on the Effects of Aluminum Welders Therapy on Silicotics A highpoint of the second day's program will be the p supported plant study of Health Problems of summary of a Foundation- photographs conditions Women in Industry This report as they are and will be published later as a Medical Bulletin Bulletin study Of just special interest to the hot industries will be results of thorough *. completed by the Army on Physiological Effects of Heat Other e presentations include Health Problems of the Older important of all persons employed are over Employee and Employer third '. E Legal Developments of 1943 Respect4i5 ng FIinndduisntrgisalfrHoemaFlotuhnda| tion Plant Surveys and companies and subscriberAs coPplyeaosfe tmhaekepreylouirminreasreyrvpartoigornasm NisOWbeing mailed to , member Y Penalty for Poor Ventilation Agreement \ The National War Labor Board has directed the inclusion of clauses in an ': between an iron works and a CIO union which included the following : x abt | ... Any employee who shall be required to work in any confined and poorly Ventilated places where welders burners or spray painters are working shall extra compensation in addition to his regular straight or overtime be paid as the base may be for such work at the rate of half his pay Provided he complies with the regular hourly base rate of pay ment for work done company's rules relating to the use of protective equip- compensation under such conditions and also that he claims such extra Fon prepared Member companies are reminded that the Foundation is m problems of industrial ventilation . to assist them . .. Details Industrial Hygiene Engineer with broad experience is available Details communicate with the Foundation For more i: Maintain Manpower an MYGIENE FOUNDATION 4400 FIFTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH PA : MDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION Vol 5 FOUNDATION FACTS FACTS FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOUNDATI FOUNDATIO FOUNDATION . : " . December 1943 Foundation Facts is monthly letter to industrial concerns holding membershiissuepd issuiend Industrial Hygiene Foundation The is combined Foundation research and service institution to protect the health of _ workers in industry Thirty New Members in 1943 Thirty more giene Foundation in 1943. 50 Federal and State companies and employer associations This brings the total joined Industrial Industrial Hy- membership to 255. subscribed agencies private institutions and Meanwhile some to the Foundation's publications Most other employer groups recent new members members -groups are American Brake Shoe & are Foundry Co. American Iron & Steel Institute Kirk & Blum Manufacturing Co The Falk Corporation Mackintosh Company Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. Monsanto Chemical Company Galvin Manufacturing Corp. New Jersey Zinc Company Sons Hercules Powder Company Joseph E. Seagram & Sun Inc. -. Jack & Heintz Inc. Rubber Company oo! S. K. Wellman Company New Bulletin Coming on Women in Industry Study - of mee The Foundation study of Health classic plant investigation will be Problems of Women in Industry tual report presents material collected in sent to Members shortly industries This In 10 different states The 54 plants in numerous industries located Member of the Foundation's study was made by Dr. C.O. Sappington Raterial has an _Committee who reviewed the that authoritative character an evident manuscript useful- could never have been attained realism and a practical useful- This study represents Foundation by research the mere summarization of questionnaires in wartime conducted on the . production lines Annual Meeting Comments interesting The Foundation continues to thers regarding the last Annual receive favorable commentscomments from Members known western Meeting The latest latest is from the vice Gundation meeting andcoampdadnsy who refers to the mostmost presidenotf a program at evious evious meeting and the tremely interesting and the Colds and Lost Time 3 Because of the amount of equentlost equent Industrial time the Foundationreisspirreaitsosruyinigllistsprevalent at this season and the | Health Problem This was report on The Common Cold as RENE Annual Meeting of Members was presented by Dr. Simon S. Leopold at the Copies accompany the current issue of the . 8 : INDUSTRIAL | THE FOUNDATION WISHES YOU AND YOUR ASSOCIATES A HEALTHFUL PRODUCTIVE NEW YEAR Don Fee HYGIENE HYGIENE FOUNDATION 4400 FIFTH AVENUE _ PITTSBURGH PA Excerpts from the Opening Address at Industrial Hygiene Foun- dation by Andrew Fletcher Vice President St. Joseph Lead Co. and Chairman of Foundation's Board of at eighth annual Trustees presented at Mellon meeting of Industrial Hygiene Foundation held Institute Pittsburgh Nov. 10 1943 1. Why was the Foundation founded and why should it continue development About ten years ago cur country was in the due to the resultant depths of a great depression and such as silicosis unemployment were widespread various claims for occupational diseases - companies quickly realized that it was difficult to obtain justified any competent information as to whether the claims were or not they also awakened to the if any data upon which to realization that they had little it was found fight unjust claims and more important still - if that an occupational hazard did place where exist there was no one central years which suggestions have passed could great be obtained obtained to lessen strides have been the hazard In the ten acquired through adversity - the most made due to the knowledge opinion is thethe important however in my living acceptance conditions by industry of the fact that improved working and result in lower costs and that the dollars improvements pay enormous dividends so spent in the ~ such In the eight years since the Foundation struggling and poorly financed was founded it has progressed from a its kind the United group to one of the strongest organizations of ployce as well States - and one which represents the interestosf em- as that of the employer by helping to prevent illness and pational diseases through research in the occu- and by the practical plant as well as in the laboratory Just I collection and dissemination of industrial hygiene data can foresee the greatest era of industrial try has ever enjoyed when the war has been activity that this coun- it will be - I won - as there is now no doubt that where unbiased see the necessity of an organization as the Foundation The Foundation information and help can be readily and inexpensively obtained can be most helpful in the post period when the the health of employees and possibly oven of the protection of more important than in the consuming public will be even and past as with the enormous advances made in engineering during the war unknown hazards have chemistry of new products arisen in the development . The financialfinancial position of the Foundation There is a * success great deal of truth in the old saying that nothing succeeds like BS Trustees the success of the Foundation and the insistence of Trustees that the Board of expenditures should at all times be budgeted and resulted in a strong financial position supervised How the FoundationFoundation can help you and the would war program like wloeulmd on for , lessening like to make just one is suggestion as our greatest present domestic domestic manpower let the Foundation aid you by making practical of industrial hazards sugges- we Although our staff is somewhat can handle even more plant surveys in 1944 than we did in 1943 * + Maintain Manpower - - .