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panies meet many of the diverse problems confronting the insurance business today Embodied in the Association are the tradi tions, experience, and accomplishments of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, the Association of Casualty and Surety Com panies, and the former Amencan Insurance Association The Association's Engineering and Safety Department develops and publishes recom mended safety programs and procedures, codes and ordinances for buildings, elevators, and the control of (ire hazards It prepares and issues bulletins to Association member companies and to public officials on matters of special interest m all manner of accident and fire prevention It studies special haz ards in specific industries and recommends safety measures Typical of the publications issued are the following Accident Prevention (partial listing) Commercial and industrial Office Building Safety Instructions Your Guide to Safety as a Hospital Employee Women in the Factory General Safety Instructions An Emergency First Aid Guide Safety in Foundry Operations School Safety Handbook of Industral Safety Standards Supervisor's Safety Guide Book Commercial vehicles fleet A Control Program for Motor Vehicle Fleets How To Hire Better Drivers Construction lour Cuide to Safety When Blasting Your Guide to Safety on Construction Projects Construction management bulletins Organizing for Loss Control -- Supervisory Responsibility Protection of Contractor's Equipment Home, traffic, and off-the-job Swimming Pool Safety Too Fast for Conditions (Deals with high speeds on the highway Physically impaired workers The Physically Impaired (A guidebook to their employment) Supervising the Physically Impaired Public and senu-public Your Guide to Safety as a Hospital Employee School Safety A Safety Guide for Hotels Visual Aids Safety Film News (A source listing of motion picture films on safety subjects) Special and chemical hazards bulletins Re search constitutes an important phase of the department's program A continuing study of hazardous chemicals and process has resulted in an encyclopedia of chemical data related to industrial exposures m the form of Chemical Hazards In formation Senes Bulletins A companion service known as the Special Hazards Bulletin Senes provides related coverage of many hazards on which safety information is needed Representative chemical hazards bulletins cover such subjects as aluminum alkyls, titanium, zirconium, phthalic anhydnde, epoxy resins, and acrolein Represen tative special hazards bulletins cover swimming pool purification, lasers and masers, insecticides, ultrasonics, and microwave radiation Fire and natural hazards Catastrophe reports, such as the Alaska Earth quake-1964 Codes and ordinances (Suggested) National Building Code Fire Prevention Code Fire resistance ratings Fire Resistance Ratings (looseleaf) Fire prevention education "Self-Inspection Blanks'' (churches, farms, hospitals, hotels, industrial plants, mercantiles, places of assembly, and schools) Your Plant's Fire Protection Fire and natural hazards Building Loss Possibilities from Fire and Natural Hazards Water in Modem Fire Control Fire service publications Classification of the Causes of Fire Radiation and Monitoring Fundamentals for the Fire Service (Published by the International Association of Fire Chiefs) Highway Transportation of Extra-Hazardous Commodities Suggested Guide for State Action on Safety from Fire, Explosion and Health Hazards Natural hazards Windstorm Precautions Public and semi-public structures Fire-Safe Schools Standards and recommended safeguards Protection of High Piles Stock Safe Handling and Use ofLP-Gas Research publications Fire, Explosion, and Health Hazards of Organic Peroxides 323