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-MO02 i-'i UTAIU3HC0 <102 E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company JNCORPORA7CO Wilmington. De-laware 19398 BIOCHEM ICAL3 DEPARTMENT PERSONAL & CONFIDENTIAL cc: M. B. Burtc . H. L. Richardson W. F. Kirk W. R. Hewton L. D. Dunn W. C. Govier K. A. Saegebarth J. E. Schumacher May 6 , 1981 iI ^ Crawford - Be 1 xe ^ian\ R. D;--Stewart/D. E"." WeHT" Houston Plant N. F. Reinert/H. Nicholas - Endo Labs.-Garden City T. R. Wood - Stine Lab. H. M. Loux - Experimental Station-Information Only ASBESTOS SCREENING PROGRAM PARTICIPATION OF PENSIONERS As you are aware through our letter dated 10/22/80, Company sites have participated in a Medical Division program to increase our ability to detect asbestos-related lung abnormalities in our employees at an early stage. You are now completing a special review of x-rays of employees over forty with ten years' service and "pro.babiedjob-related exposure to asbestos. Other employees are receiving a comparable critical review at the time of their regular periodic physical examination. It has now been decided by Corporate management that all pensioners who believe they may have been exposed to asbestos during their Du Pont employment should be given an opportunity to participate in the x-ray screening program. The plan for management of the program is given below. The Screening Program The screening program is to be managed by each site for its own pen sioners. Your site is responsible for pensioners for whom your site was the final employment point and pensioners from former Du Pont sites for whom you have administrative responsibility. The program will parallel that for employees. Pensioners who wish to participate will respond to a letter prepared by the site. The site, in turn, will arrange for individual consultation and a chest x-ray, which will be read by a board-certified or qualified radiologist. No attempt should be made by the site to dis^jiade any pensioner from participating in the screening; anyone who wishes to participate should be accommodated, and arrangements made for an x-ray. However, if a person is in doubt about his exposure and it appears from a discussion of his work history that he has had no possibility_of asebestos exposure, the advice that he need not participate may be given and recorded. If there is any doubt concerning potential for exposure, he should be encouraged to parti cipate. A record should be kept of all contacts from pensioners and their disposition. A suggested format for recording pensioner contacts is attached. 799 DUP 0906281 SC-DP-06925