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FILE NAME Industrial Hygiene Foundation IHF
DATE 1944 DOC IHF022
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Foundation Facts 1944 Oct & Dec First Pages
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Foundation Facts is a monthly letter issued
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to industrial concerns holding membership in
Industrial Hygiene Foundation The Foundation
is a profit association of industries for the
advancement of healthful working conditions
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October 1944
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No. 10
Program for Ninth Annual Meeting
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H. E. Batcheller President of Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation and Chief
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Production Operations of the War
Board will deliver the keynote address opening the
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Anth Annual Meeting of Members of Industrial Hygiene at Foundation Mellon Institute
Attsburgh on November 15 and 16 an
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3 - The keynote address starting at 10 o'clock Wednesday 11 be followed by the panel Putting the Disabled Veteran Back ntinuation of the reports on veteran rehabilitation which made
morning November 15-
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to Work This isa
history at the Founda-
on's 1943 meeting More copies of that discussion have been distributed than any
Iblication the Foundation ever issued
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Participants in the panel will be the same '
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The afternoon of the first day will be devoted to the Medical and Engineering
tions which include reports on Placement Physical Examinations Protection of from
i Kers Against Noise Practical Psychiatry in Industry Control of Air Pollution from
justrial Stacks Tolerance Men to Heat and Humidity and Findings from Foundation
Surveys Col. A.J. Lanza M.C. Chairman of the Foundation's Medical Committee
Philip Chairman of the Engineering Committee will preside Oe a
Program for Second Day
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The second day's program opens with the Legal Section presided over by -
edore C. Waters Chairman of the Legal Committee Subjects include Medical and _
11 Aspects of Compensation for Partial Disability from Silicosis Second Injury
7 as Employment Aids to the Handicapped and Legal Developments in 1944 Respect-
Industrial Health
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Management The remainder of the day will be devoted to the
Section which .
wbO featured by a panel on Sickness Indemnification or health insurance R. A. i*}r
Me Associate Actuary Metropolitan Life Insurance Company will preside Phases *
in- B subject to be covered are the Economic Basis of Health Sick Benefit Plans
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an analysis of plans in operation from the section of Foundation member {:
Mes and Medical Expense Indemnification
pe a 30 minute period for open discussion
Following these presentations there -
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The meeting concludes with a talk on the increased importance of industrial
inin industrial relations by V.P. Ahearn Executive Secretary of the National triel Sand Association and an Industry Member of the National War Labor Board
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Accommodations Limited
Because of the increase in Foundation members and the corresponding increase resentatives from member companies the Foundation has been forced to radically
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number of invitations to special guests this year Member Companies who
yet sont in the names of their representatives are urged to act immediately
accommodations
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Foundation Facts is monthly letter issued
to industrial concerns holding membership in . Industrial Hygiene Foundation The Foundation '
is a profit association of industries for the
advancement of healthful working conditions -
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No. 12
Proceedings to be Issued in Parts Veterans Report First i.
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Proceedings The
of the Ninth Annual Meeting of Members
Industrial Hygiene |
Foundation
held
at Mellon Institute on November 15
and
16
will
of
be issued
parts this year rather than in one volume as in the
in several
this expedite
publication
and
than
circulation of
the material
past Reason for
is to
parties
to properly interested parties
within our member companies The subject matter is so
medicine and
diversified ranging from
efficient }
engineering to health insurance law and labor
that
relations efficientie. me circulation of the material would be impossible in one publication :
Putting the Disabled
the annual
Veteran Back to Work II the panel discussion at
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panel
meeting is now in proof form and will be published soon This -;.
discussion lished
with which the Foundation pioneered
at
the 1943 meeting pub-
separately lication will
from
the
remainder
of
the
Proceedings
a
year ago
The next
pub-
ance The EnbgeitnheepeanrelindigscSuescstiioonnoonf Stihcekness Indemnification or health insur-
program will be published
and the Legal Sectio aln so
separately J " .
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Meeting Received Wide Attention
Meanwhilescnhuemdeurloeuds CHEMICAL The Ninth Annual Meeting received a national press " Numerous news
ere carried by the Associated Press United Pross and
Numerous
stories
their hundreds of client
International News Service to
devoted a lead
newspapers throughout the country
article on page one to the meeting
The WALL STREET JOURNAL
trade and
Dical Dical journals are publishing highlights of the meeting in their current or forth- techcoming issues Notable among these is a
AND ENGINEERING NEWS
comprehensive report
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called Meanwhile the Chamber of Commerce of the United States recently
to the Foundation's plant survey services for the control of noxious and exposures in the workplace and sent literature describing the Foundation
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approximately 2,000 members
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R.E. Zimmerman Heads Research Committee
ChaFiorumnandsahtiipon to Chairmanship
R.E. Zimmerman Sc.D. Vice President U.S. Steel Corporation has accepted
of the Foundation's Research Committee Dr. Zimmerman is a trustee ~
oundation
oundation
He succeeds the late B.D. Saklatwalla whose death was reported
members at the annual meeting
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Dr. Lanza Returns to Civilian Life
the Col. A.J. Lanza who organized and directed the Occupational Health
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Army Service Forces was honorably discharged from the Army recently
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sistant Chairman of
the Foundation's Medical
Committee
returns
to
his
Dr.
old position
as
sistant sistant Medical Medical Director Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
as
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HYGIENE
HYGIENE FOUNDATION
A Healthful New Year !
4400 FIFTH AVENUE
PITTSBURGH 13 PA