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. OCCU?ATIONAli HEALTH COMMITTEE' Minutes of Meeting Monteleone Hotel Mew Orleans, Louislens Septahber 20, 1971 URL 22796 MEMBERS FRESEHTr M. v. Hendricks, Chairman M. V. Andresen E. E. Christofano L. B. Grant, K-D. J. Hogan, M.D. K. K. Johnson, H.D. K. S. Lane, M.D. J. E. Long .. W. E. McCormick it. M. Morse C. F. Reinhardt, M.D. T. R. Torke lior. X. . D. Johnson GUESTS PRESENT: ' L. E* Cassidy, M.D* J. Jorgensen F. L.. Oglesby F. L. 'Lyman, M.D. 5. Schreiber H. G. White '_ MEMBERS AB5EKT: M. R. Casque, M.D. W. J. Martin, M.D. W. McHub Standard Oil Company (N. J.) American Cyananid Company Hercules Incorporated PEG xndustries, Inc. Gulf Oil Corporation Monsanto Company Union Carbide Corporation Minnesota Mining Mfg. Co. B. F. Goodrich Company U. S. Steel Corporation E. I, dtt Font de Hemours & Co. The Dow Chemical Company , Manufacturing Chemists Association Canadian Industries Ltd. Rohm Haas Company Tennessee Eastman Company CIBA-GEIGY Corporation Allied Chemical Corporation Shell Chemical Company Olio Corporation Cyanamid of Canada Ltd. BASF Wyandotte Corporation 1. Minutes of the Meeting of tv.-6. 1971 The subject minutes were approved With the correction to item 10 to indicate that the subcommittee reporting on the vinyl chloride project should have been designated the "vinyl chloride subcommittee" rather than the "epidemiology subcommittee." PLAINTIFFS EXHIBIT j <$UAAt I OSC-57 V*- Btffltei's'hlp Change* 21 Membership leases- ' * 2.1*1 By expiration of term* 2. K. Diron, M.D. . Celaaes* Corporation *. Way 31* 1971 r. Z. Oglesby ' '* Tennessee Eastman - September 11, 1971 3.1-2 By charier* of employment* . J. w. Wolfsia, H.D. ' tnmoao., lac. - July 10, 1971 2-1.3 Pending expiration*t ` ' . W- 0-. Martin, tt.D. ' 1 * Cyanamid of Canada October 9, 1971 URL 22797 2.2 fcv Kernbere * _ 2-2.1 Board action completed* Z>. B- Grant. M.D. - PPG Industries - May 11, 1971 , J- E. Irong Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Cory. - May 11, 1971 ' C. P. Reinhardt, M.D. ` X. 7* du Pont da Kemouxs ft Co. - Jose 9, 1971 - W. V. Andresen American Cyanamid Company - June 9, 1971 3.2.2 Board action pending: t L. e. Cassidy, M.D> Canadian Industries ltd. - October 9, 1971 0HC-5B 2.2.3 Committee action pending* X* X, Eynon Hopper* Company, - ` Inc. - C.inaaxy 10, 1973 {Date Available Opening) - * 1j. Lyman, M.D. ' ' CXBA-G3ZGY Corporation .- -{Opening now available? ' . It wee moved, seconded and carried that the name of Dr. Xyamn.b* forwarded to the MCA Board . with recormendatlon for favorable action at its next meeting. Election of Vice President ' To fill the vacancy in this office created by the resignation o Dr. wolfsie; the Chairman named the following subcommittee to bring in a nominations ' .* William E. McCormick, Chairman ' ' Xee B. Grant, H. D. - . Kenneth M. Morse - . Mr. McCormick subsequently reported for the siibconsaittee that its choice was - Kenneth 5. Xane, M. p. ' 86^1 W 1 of Union Carbide Corporation, tfo other nominations were offered --om the floor, and Dr. Lane's election to the post of Vice-Chairman cd complete the unexpired term cf Dr. Wolfsie was confirmed by vnoice vote. ' 4- Report to the MCA Board Liaison Committee for Environmental ` s . The Chairman reported that he had attended the meeting of the rhbject Board Committee on September 14, and presented a written --port to them on the activities of the Occupational Health Committee, espies of the report, which describe* both current and projected Com mittee programs, have been distributed to the Committee membership. M 0 tl 5, Committee Orcanisation_and Funfttan 5.1 Rules of Organization and Procedure The chairman referred to hi* letter to the Committee dated dime 17, 1971. The following subcommittee is charged with developing these suggestions into a report suitable for submission to the Board for approval as revised Terms of _ Reference and new Function Statement* ' K. .S,, .Lane, X.D., Chairman , ' d. Hogan, M.D. . w. V. Andresen . . , .' K. tt. Morse , ' . ', , ' 66422 tan This subcommittee is also charged with revision of the Committee's Rules of organisation and Procedure to bring them into conformance with the General Principles Applicable to the Structure and Operation of Committees. In so doing, they have been ashed to follow, as appropriate, the model offered by the present draft revision of the subject rules for the labels and Precautionary Information Cocsaittee. ' ' In this 'function they were ashed to consider carefully whether the present members'll in restrictions were consistent with the current needs of the Committee and what modifications, if any, should be recamaended to the Board. *' 5.2 Corrotmication with Member Companies The chairman expressed concern over idte limited extent of exposure of the Committee and its programs to the MCA member ship. Among the steps suggested for improving and strengthening the image of the Committee'werei . (1) Improved coverage in the MCA Annual Report. .. The following task group was named to work on a suitable draft for submission to the editor of the 1972 Report: W. E. McCormick, Chairman, D. K. K. Johnsdn and Mr. Warren Mcl.ab * _(21 A series of articles in Pilot, perhaps comparable to the Pollution Control Primer series from the .Air and Water Coimaittees 1 (3)' Development, with the cooperation of the Safety and Fire Protection and Labels and Precautionary Information Committeas, of g series of Material Safety Pate Sheets designed to meet the requirements to be imposed upon employers by the Occupational Safety and Health Act. ' The Chairman appointed Emil Christofano and Dzv C. ?. .Reinhardt to work with the other committees in developing a program to prepare such Material . Safety pata Sheets. Mr. Norman G. White of the Safety and Fire Pro tection Committee addressed our Committee briefly as to the status of his Coamlthee's plans and procedures for a joint subcommittee to carry- the major respon sibility for this program. The last suggestions were formally approved by motion duly made, seconded end carried. The plan for a series of articles in Pilot was approved in principle and the Chairman was ashed to draft a proposed organizational outline for such a series, and to circulate it to the Committee. ' i, 6. - Liaison with Other OrqaniratlBis URL 22800 6.1 Designation of liaison Responsibilities . Mr. Hendricks informed the Committee that he had appointed the .following named individuals for informal liaison with the indicated organisation: Emil Christofano American Industrial Hygiene Assn. T. R. Torkelson American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists M. N. Johnson, M.D Industrial Medicine Association N. V. Hendricks American Petroleum Institute ' 6.2 Liaison with the Federal Government' . . ,4 In response to invitations submitted by MCA at the urging of the Committee, Mr. George C. Guenther, Assistant Secretary of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, his designated Mr. Joseph J. LaKocca, Chief of the Office of Project Management and Support, as the Individual from his depart ment responsible for liaison with the MCA Safety and Fire Pro tection and Occupational Health Committees. OHC-51 in a similar vain, Dr* Marcus Key* Director of the National 'Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, hhs named Dr. Charles Powell, Assistant Director, NI05H, to a comparable role. Mr. Hendricks will maintain 'a continuing program of consultation and informational exchange to keep the Committee and the federal agencies mutually informed concerning items of common interest. . 6.3 Liaison with MCA Committee* URL 22B0I Mr. Hendricks reported that he had sent letters to the chairmen of the Safety and Fire Protection, labels ana Precautionary Information, Food, Drug and Cosmetic Chemicals Committees, the Ad Hoc Committee on Chemicals Regulation, and Chemtrec, expressing our interest in a closer liaison between the Occupational Health Committee and their activities, and had received favorable responses from each. * 1. * * __ Mr. Morse suggested that liaison among the technical committees under the surveillance of the MCA Board Liaison Committee for Environmental Duality and Control would be improved if the technical committee chairmen were to meet informally as a group before they reported to the Board Committee session. A - "chairman1s breakfast" was mentioned as an appropriate format for such meetings. Mr. Hendricks volunteered to. take the initiative in presenting Mr. Morse's suggestion to MCA management. Copies of a report describing the status and activ ities of the just-recently activated Chemtrec {Chemical Transpor tation Emergency Center) were distributed to'the Committee. i 7. Workshops . The Committee was informed that the attendance for the Safety and Fire Protection Committee/OccupaIona1 Health Committee * jointly sponsored Workshop on the Impact of the Occupational Safety and Health Act on the Chemical Induatry, scheduled for the following day, might reach 400, and that a favorable response to the program was anticipated. . t . ` As to futuro workshops, consideration w--. given to a repe tition of the Hew Orleans workshop at some ether site, and/or a more narrowly fo.jscd industrial hygiene workshop. It was decided to avail an evaluation of the performance and acceptance Of .the Hew Orleans workrhop before making any further plans. To_that esed, esch Occupational Health committee member attending the Workshop was asked to prepare a critique, covering program material, presentation, relative emptiesis, etc., and to in dicate his recommendation as to whether this workshop should he repeated "as is,1* revised, or replaced by one of altered content and format. Dr. Torkelson moved' that the Chairman be authorized to proceed with approval for CSC participation in a second pre sentation of the Hew Orleans workshop program if, in his judgment, the critiques he received were favorable. His motion was seconded and carried. - - Dr- Hac Soy Sasque was asked to continue his responsibility for workshop planning. '^ . 8. Chemical Safety Data Sheets The Chairman reported that the draft: on elemental phosphoresis was the only one now outstanding. - -,, Dr, M. H- Johnson raised the point as to the care that ' should be taken in drafting Chemical safety Data Sheet recom- meadations in format so restrictive as to imply disapproval of alternative procedures that may be used by some companies and that may provide equivalent degrees of safety. . . . -5 to co S The Secretary was asked to mail copies of the current "guidelines" for Chemical Safety Data Sheet authors to all nenberr of the Committee. Mr. hndresen expressed the view that, in all revisions or new sheet issues, care should be taken to be certain that they included all information essential for the preparation of Material Safety Data Sheets by the users of these materials. He also suggested that the value of the sheets could be in creased without increasing their size, if separate bulletins on general safety practices could be issued and referenced, . where eppropriate, in the individual Data Sheets. - , i. An apparent error in reference to the recommendations on eye protection in Section 5.2.2 of 5D-9 - Caustic Soda, was called to the attention of the committee. The Committee felt that this error was sufficiently serious 1:o justify immediate reprinting of the same and destruction of defective copies. Whether or not the draft Sate Sheet cm Vinyl Chloridi should be revised to identify the allegations of careLungs was discussed at length, without a firm decision. The Chairman vs* asked to take this up with the Safety and Fire Protection Committee on Wednesday, September 22, and to clear any tentative decision with MCA staff counsel. .- The extent of duplication and the occasional ineonsisten-; cies among the standards and safe handling recommendations of the American National Standards Institute, the American Indus trial Hygiene Association, the American Petroleum Institute, the National Safety Council and MCA was discussed at some length, but ns specific means to cope with this problem could be identi fied. The problem should be recognized, and to the extent feasible, authors of MCA Chemical Safety Data Sheet drafts should avoid wording that would confuse the users of these . bulletins or create an unjustified impression of opposing viewpoints among the issuing organizations. 9. Occupational Safety and Health Administration Standards The program of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to develop permanent 'standards to replace the consensus standards initially blanketed into their operations was discussed at some length. An initial phase will be the development of criteria documents on industrial work space con- taminants of widespread interest. Among those to receive early attention are: carbon monoxide, asbestos, cotton dust, silica, fiber glass, beryllium, lead, and mercury. The physical agents - heat, noise, and U.V. radiation are also slated for prompt con sideration. ,Z ^ Vo S Messrs. Emil Christofano and Kenneth Morse were asked to develop proposed MCA goals on atmospheric and biological mon itoring for the mantrol of workspace contaminants. The Chairman announced his intention to keep in touch with NIOSH as these criteria were being prepared for publication in - the Federal Register as proposed criteria. Be will appoint - task groups to participate in the drafting of MCA comments on - - such criteria from time to time as the need arises. ( 1 Mr. Christofano discussed the problem of definition of u individual "competent,** within the meaning of the regulation, to*approved personal protective equipment for specific task applications. He urged that National membership in the Amer ican Industrial Hygiene Association be considered prima facie evidence of such competence. ' No Cononittee action was taken in regard to the Department of labor questionnaire on Occupational Noise that was brought to their attention by the Chairman's letter d August , 1971. The Chairman urged that the Committee members give careful atteation to the studies and Proposed stindards for Heat Stress,, indicating that, in hi* opinion, the Proposed Standards failed * to take acclimatization and self-selection into account, were unnecessarily restrictive and would be very difficult and expen sive to comply with. Be recommended that each member study carefully the report of the symposium on heat stress conducted at the Industrial Health Foundation in June. The proceedings have been published by the XBF under the title "Assessment of Heat Stress and Strains" Engineering Series Ho. 8-71, and may be ordered by writing them directly at ' * - Industrial Health Foundation, be. . 5231 Centre Avenue ,, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15232 . Hr. Hendricks asked that all members make a serious effort to collect data and document beat exposure records of present industrial practices that experience has demonstrated adequate to protect properly selected and acclimated workers. URL 22B04 10. Epidemiological survey of the chemical Industry . . The Chairman reviewed the deliberations of the Subcommittee on Epidemiology over the past month, and related the parallel activities occurring. In the American Petroleum Institute. A _ feasibility study has been conducted by this university of Texas, and-on the basis of that study, their" committee had solicited proposals for the performance of a full survey by an outside contractor. Howard, Johns Hopkins and the University of Michigan submitted the best proposals, and copies of their proposals were distributed "to MCA's Epidemiology Subcommittee. They were asked to consider: (1) which protocol would be best for the model for an MCA survey, and (2) whether to submit to the MCA Board a formal request for funding of such a survey in the 1972-73 budget. _ ` 11. Polyvinyl Chloride Acroosteolvais Registry The Secretary relayed Dr. pinraan'a plea for wider and more prompt responses to his requests for the submission of pertinent data to the Registry. Be also alerted the Committee to the im pending exhaustion of currently authorized funds for maintenance of the Registry activity, and asked them to determine the wishes of their companies in regard to any refunding. 12. Vinyl CMpride- Monomer Study Hr. MuCoraicb reported for the Vinyl Chloride Monomer Sub committee that they had selected the research proposal from. Industrial aiotest as technically adequate and most advantageous from a cost standpoint. The subconstittee recommended that their proposal,, with a possible reduction in scale of effort,(if neces sary to accommodate available funding) on study of acetylene- derived Vcm, be presented to the vinyl chloride manufacturers and users as a suggested protocol. 1 This recommendation was moved, seconded and carried and the Secretary was ashed to proceed -with plans to hold a meeting of representatives of the Vinyl chloride industry to consider -these matters. He was also 'ashed to ascertain the current -status of Dr. Viola's research and available results before any such meeting. The question was raised as to whether an epidemiological survey of vinyl chloride worhers to determine the incidence of cancer or other ,lexicons suggested by Dr. Viola's vorh might be in order. It was decided to delay any decision on such a survey until more lab oratory data was available from lower level exposures. URL 22605 13 - Treatment for Chemical Exposures _,, " 13.1 Phenol Decontamination Studies on the relative advantages and disadvantages of water, versus glycerol or other polyalcohols, for the removal of phenol contamination from the shin, are still underway at Dow Chemical Cotrpany. Ho Committee recommendations are planned prior to the ccapletion of this worh. 13.2 Treatment of Phosgene Exposure . .. The recently published data on the treatment of phos gene exposure by hexamethylenetetramine has been submitted to Dr. X. L. Dane for critical review. ' 13.3 saatrio Evacuation Following Hydrocarbon Ingestion * The matter of whether, or not warning labels on hydro carbon solvents should, or should not, recommend induction of vomiting for the emergency treatment of ingestion of such solvent was discussed, but no decision was reached. The Committee urged that MCA develop guidelines on this point to be followed consist ently in the Chemical Safety Data Sheet series. 14 Future Meeting Schedules The next regular meeting of the Committee was scheduled for Wednesday, April 5, it e eite to he determined later. ' If necessary to expedite the vinyl chloride researOh program, the Committee expressed an interest in an early December- meeting, subject to the call of the chair. Their attention was called to the December 13-14 schedule of the Safety and Fire Protection Comaittse. '* URL 22806 Secretary .. Occupational Bultii Committee Minutes Subject to Approval December 3, 1971 KDJ/ej ' t \ ' Liaison Report of the labels and Precautionary Information Committee - Mr. Herman White, of the subject Committee gave an extensive report of the project being conducted by them to secure, consensus support for a hazard labeling system acceptable for both in-plant and transportation uses. This would combine major features of the Rational Fire Protection Association *704" labeling system and the MCA HI program. - . The salient feature of the proposed labeling system involves - a division of the diamond label into five usti, with appropriate seventy-o-rish numerals in each area. The control area would be used for inhalation hazard, the upper for shin hazard,' the lower for ingestion, and the lateral areas for eye hazards. The selec tion of these areas was based on the features of the human face, with correspondence between the previously described areas and the nose (for inhalation!, the brow (shin), mouth (ingestion), and the lateral eye positions. . '* The Chairman agreed to appoint representatives from `the Occupational Health Committee to a joint subcommittee.consider ing the hazard.labeling system. ' `` URL 22007 t