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FILE NAME: Phenolic Resins (PHR) DATE: 1971 June 24 DOC#: PHR072 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: UC Memo with Safety Meeting Minutes Including Discussion of Asbestos & List of Companies with Reps Present at the Meeting UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION CHEMICALS AND PLASTICS ENGINEERING BOUND BROOK, NEW JERSEY MEMORANDUM June 24, 1971 RECEIVED JUN 2 8 1971 J.J.W. To: Mr. R. F. Valois Chemicals and Plastics Bound Brook, New Jersey Cc: From: Mr. R. E. Byrne - Niagara Falls Mr. Frank Cozzarelli - 312 Mr. M. G. Ferri - 312 Mr. D. H. Frodey Mr. R. E. Graebert Mr. C. L. Higgins - 312 - 312 - 312 Mr. H. E. Kasting - 312 Mr. N. H. Ketcham - 511 Mr. L. J. LaFrance/ - 4th Floor Mr. P. W. McDaniel Dr. C. s. McKinley Mr. R. E. Nicolson JL312 >i2 Mr. H. L. Robinson, fj 511 Mr. S. P. Spence A? 312 Mr. J. J. Walker^* 511 Mr. J. P. Zuccarelli -- 312 Mr. R. w. Schwartz Subject : Safety Meeting Chemicals and Plastics Operations General Electric Company, Hooker Chemical Corporation and Union Carbide C o r p o r a t i o n ____________ Through the efforts of Mr. Kenneth Barr, Manager - Phenolics Product Section, General Electric Company; John J. Lanihan, Vice-President and General Manager of the Durez Division of Hooker Chemical Corporation and Mr. R. E. Nicolson, Operations Manager - Thermosetting and Epoxy Resins of Union Carbide a meeting of Safety/Medical personnel of the three (3) companies met at the Hooker Chemical Corporation plant in Niagara Falls on June 18, 1971. - 1- UCC 022312 To: Mr. R. F. Valois June 24, 1971 Subject: Safety Meeting Chemicals and Plastics Operations General Electric Company, Hooker Chemical Corporation and Union Carbide Corporation __________ Those in attendance at the meeting were as follows: General Electric Company: David H. Guilbault Safety Administrator General Electric Company Pittsfield, Massachusetts David G. Paff, MD Associate Medical Director General Electric Company Pittsfield, Massachusetts Louis W. Rohrdanz Corporation Coordinator Safety & Security R. W. Schwartz Process Safety & Fire Protection Engineering Department Bound Brook, New Jersey Engineer UCC 022313 To: Mr. R. F. Valois - 3- June 24, 1971 Subject: Safety Meeting Chemicals and Plastics Operations General Electric Company, Hooker Chemical Corporation and Union Carbide C o r p o r a t i o n _____ On the subject of asbestos, the following major points were discussed: 1. The current and proposed Threshold Limit Values were discussed. It was agreed that the engineering solution to the problem of meeting the Threshold Limit Values lay in capturing the material at the source as efficiently as possible and checking on the effectiveness of the system by monitoring the area periodically. 2. Dr. Paff described some of the current thinking on the dangers of asbestos to human beings. I will not attempt to report in de tail what he said except to indicate that the effect of asbestos on human beings is not completely understood nor has sufficient work been done to be able to say definitely how such exposure affects the human being. It must, under certain conditions of fiber size and concentration, be considered dangerous to humans. Dr. Paff is sending each one of us a summary of his remarks on this point, which will be available for anyone who wishes it. 3. With respect to asbestos, as a conversion factor, two (2) million particles (of asbestos) per cubic foot of air equals 10 to 12 fibers greater than five (5) microns in length. This is the criteria used by the General Electric Industrial Hygiene Depart ment. 4. Hooker Chemical Corporation reports that they use Mine Safety Appliance Company Dust - Foe No. 66 Respirator for protection of persons exposed to asbestos. General Electric Company stated they also use this unit. 5. Dr. Paff recommended that each of us obtain and study a document called "Documentation of Threshold Limit Values" published by the American Conference of Governmental and Industrial Hygienists. This document g i v e s the pertinent backup scientific information and data on which the Threshold Limit Values for various products were based. He states that it will substantially increase our knowledge of how the Threshold Limit Values were reached, and the significance of the data. UCC 022314 To: Mr. R. F. Valois - 4- June 24, 1971 Subject : Safety Meeting Chemicals and Plastics Operations General Electric Company, Hooker Chemical Corporation and Union Carbide Corporation ------------- The writer nentiooed the marketed by Union Carbide tric were very interested and aion. Both H o o k e r w u t e r i i r e which I later requested through ^ L b e r t ^ y r i r o r i n i o n Carbides Mining and Metals Division in N i a g a r a ^ a i l s ^ w h o will take the necessary follow-up action. 7. There was a limited di?us^ h"h^i^ e i v L g 1point8and concluding handling asbestos starting with the receiving p and with the asbestos blended into ^ Hooker Corporation indicated a number of trials but no r suc- cess in this ficid. 8. Considerable discussion we. held ^ ^ ' ^ f e ^ e l a n d U n g taring asbestos dust la ae?ivities at o the enpty bags. All ,,t completely satisfactory, their company along thes 1 . tflW tue best approach Hooker Chemical Corporation appears to have wherein they dropped empty bags y | ^ s atld binds chute into a compacting device w h i c h s i t e and buried. desk whara thay are turned aver t o a p r i w t a seaveng . P ^ 2 ? r r s e L ' ^ d ^ b a f ^ r can be InclLr.ted to destruction at temperatures over 900 F. ,, . ,, Many items of nutoel H " 1 in^mgrial safety in chemicals and plastics 8 ,,`uld be ^ d i f f i c u l t i e s aud short- S S S r f veatilatior^proj ects, - . 2 ^ 1 and f p f r a t l L group. UCC 022315