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FILE NAME Industrial Hygiene Foundation IHF
DATE 1943 DOC IHF047
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Conference Presentation Excerpt
Excerpts from the Opening Address et
dation by Andrew Fletcher Vice
Industrial Hygiene Foun-
President St. Joseph Lead
at eighth annual
Foundation's Board of
Trustees presented
at Kellon InstitumteeetPiintgtosfbuIrngdhusNtorvi.al1H0yg1ie9n4e3 Foundation held
1 Why was the Foundation
founded and why should it
continue
About ten years
due to the
ago cur country was
such
resultant unemployment various claims
as silicosis were widespread
difficult to obtain
:
justified or not if any data
they also awakened to
to whether the the realization that
claims were
it was found upon which to fight unjust claims and
they had little
that an occupational hazard did
more important still - if
place where suggestions could be
exist there was no one central
years which have passed
obtained to lessen the hazard In the
great strides have been made due to the
ten
acquired through adversity - the most
opinion is the
important
knowledge
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
~
Foundation was founded it has
struggling and poorly financed
its kind
group to one of the strongest
the United States - and
ployce as well as that of the
pational diseases
employer
and by the
through research in the plant as well as
Just
practical collection and dissemination of
in the laboratory
as I can foreses the greatest era of
industrial hygiene data
try has ever enjoyed when the
industrial activity that this coun-
it will be - I see the
war has been won - as there is now no doubt
where unbiased
necessity of an organization such as the
that
The
Foundation
information
can be
and
help
can
be
readily
and
Foundation inexpensively
in the health of
most helpful the post period when the obtained
more
employees and possibly even 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
new products
war unknown hazards have arisen in the development
Foundation The financial position of the ,
There B
is a great deal of truth in the
success - the success of the
old saying that nothing nothing succeeds like
P
Trustees his
his resulted
that expenditures Foundation and the insistence of the Board of
resulted in
should at all times be budgeted and
a strong financial position
supervised
(
the
Bo Foundation can help you and the
. I told told told
war program
Filem
like to make just one
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in
menpower let the
suggestion as our greatest present domestic
for
Foundation aid you by making practical
lessening Halted he
,
he
of industrial hazards Although our staff
sugges-
somewhat can+e,handle even more plant surveys in 1944 than we diisd in 1943
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