Document QgQ6XDkG54eKd9dYnO4y58M5
FILE NAME Industrial Hygiene Foundation IHF
DATE 1943 DOC IHF047
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Conference Presentation Excerpt
Excerpts from the Opening Address at
dation by Andrew Fletcher Vice
Industrial Hygiene Foun-
Co. and Chairman of
President St. Joseph Lead
at
Foundation's Board of
eighth annual meeting of Industrial
Trustees presented
at Mellon Institute Pittsburgh Nov. HygieneHygiene Foundation held
10 1943
1 Why was the Foundation
founded and why should it
continue
About ten years
due to the resultaagnot cur country was in the depths of a great
depression unemployment various claims for
and
occupational diseases
quickly realized that its
if any
not they also
data upon which to
awakened to
as to whether the claims
the realization that
were
they had
it was found that an
fight unjust claims and more important
little
place where
occupational hazard did exist there
still - if
years which suggestions could be obtained to lessen the
was no one central
have passed great strides have been
hazard In the ten
acquired through adversity - the most
made due to the knowledge
opinion is the
important
development living
acceptance conditions
by industry of
the
fact
that
however
improved
in my
improvements
result in lower costs and that the dollars
working and
pay enormous dividends
so spent in the
In the eight years since the
struggling
and
Foundation poorly financed
was
founded
it
has
progressed
from
its kind the United
group to one of the strongest organizations a
ployce as well
States - and one which represents the
of
as that of the employer by helping to
interests of em-
prevent
apnadtiboynalthediseases through research in the plant as well
illness and occu-
Just
practical collection and dissemination of
as in the laboratory
as I can foreses the greatest era of
industrial industrial hygiene data
try has ever enjoyed when the
it will be - I
war has been
industrial activity
see the necessity of an
where unbiased information and
organization such as the Foundation
The Foundation can be
help can be readily
in the health of
most helpful the post period when the
more
employees and possibly oven of the
protection of
important than in the
consuming public will be even
engineering during the past as with the enormous advances made in chemistry
B of new products
war unknown hazards have arisen in the
development The financial financial position of the Foundation a
There is
success success a success
a great deal of truth in the old
saying that
- the success of the
nothing succeeds like
B
Trustees that
Foundation and the insistence of the Board
his resulted
expenditures should at all times be
of
in e resulted a strong financial position budgeted and supervised
How the Foundation Foundation can help you and the war
program
tem
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Haited
Haited
like to make just one
is
for monpower
let
the Fosuungdgaetsitoinonaidas our greatest present domestic you by making practical
lessening of industrial hazards
sugges-
he can handle even
Although our staff is somewhat
more plant surveys in 1944 than we did in 1943
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