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FILE NAME Painters and Allied Trades PAINT DATE 1982 Nov DOC PAINT073 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Article from Painters and Allied Trades Journal _ IBPAT Invests in Union Jobs Homes ~ IBPAT Looks at Bacon Violations ~* Election Day Help America Back to Work ~ Mondale Get Mad and Vote for Your Work Country Local and District Council News Sports and Recreation .-' 2 . Financial Report Cover The General Secretary DEVOTT O TEHED TRADE INTERESTS 7 Treasurer RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL ae ea INDUSTRIAL @ SIGN AUTOMOBILE PICTORIAL ; ce ; gw COACH @ AUTOMOBILE 'AIRCRAFT e S MACHINERY RAILWAY EQUIPMENT . SHIP AND SCENIC PAINTING DECORATING e PAPERHANGING 7 *-!:.: WALL COVERINGPAERHANGING DECORATIVE AND ARCHITECTURAL GLASS WORK 8- GLAZING @ CARPETGLASS LINOLEUM SOFT Reports UNION MOVEMENT Any member or subordinate documents of Brotherhood publishing programs souvenirs or other other of any description must not - designate designate them as The Official Journal of International Painters ' " Painters and either upon the their advertising culate the amount of fresh to dilute solvent solvent IBPAT told percent * wear dust masks while spraying ac- cancer registry whereas all theprov cording to the IBPAT Respira- :. inces inces of Canada have such tor Use and Preference Survey see for exampleThis lack of ing Contractors of America can sup- report in in December 1981 Journal record keeping in the U.S. Dust masks provide absolutely no pro- vestigation of occupational illness . port it IBPAT and NPCA presented . a joint statement to OSHA agreeing | on seven minimal criteria for ade- . quate hazard communication standard painting in the industry see box The . criteria are basedin part on over 200 letters from IBPAT members stating what they wantto see on paint prod- uct labels see story in May 1980 Journaladiton * . In addition to the joint criteria IBPAT proposesreplacing the current paint label warning USE WITH ADEQUATE VENTILATION with a specified cubic footventilation re- quirement To demonstrate that venti- information source tection for spray paintersThe com- ficult Thisis why IBPAT'S records mittee resolved that each ~ organization providea good of represented will use its official . NJS for jour- for scientists nals and other publications to alert for Works painters to the danger of NJS dust IBPATIBPAT Members using masks for spray paintingof ; General President S. Frank Raftery masks only Dangerous useof dust iis s founded the National Joint Safety it one propbrobllem em ooff use respirarestpiratory ory protproetecctitonion* Health Committeein 1969 and in the paint trades Whencartridge met annually since The NJS respirators are worn they must be fit- HC has tackled matters such as drywall compounds tested to be effective Most IBPAT | mbaetsteoss aisncarcinogens and the Mocuhrno t members do not receive tests The Sinai School of Medicine'sclincial NPCA has developed an instructional . aminations of 2,000 IBPAT members program on qualitative respirator fit- The Committee's impact in the paint industry testing and announced its availability . ing be can Atendig attributed to Attending can be specified to the committee: Although IBPAT IBPAT reported itsstatistical evalua favors quantitative testing tion of the IBPATOSH _ Solvent which the solvent level inside anindi- Communication Minimal Criteria forHazard Painting In the Industry IBPAT and the National Paintand Coatings Association agree that : the following minimal criteria should be included in a sound hazard communication program for the painting industry a * a Detailed description ofproper personal . protectiveequipment 2. Evaluation of routes of exposure ; exposure 3. Acute warning symptons of - 4. Chronic effects of exposure v Keller PPMGetalweld Toxicolgist President Larry Jack Oschele IBPAT Health and Safety -: Director Rod Wolfod Painting . Decorating Contractors of America lyn Larson William HalperiDnirector * of NIOSH Harvard University 5. Chemical listing of + Holstein M.D. of the Mount based constituentsabpypcrhoeamc-h hazardous product tiered Medicine Hopkins ical icanl ame or CAS number -- School of faculty .. Johns 6. Overall hazard using ratings on ": Professor Charles Bilings Where a product is sohazardous or complicated to use that all - . Ph.D . IBPAT Research Director Frank Burkhardt necessary precautions cannot appear on the label then the label a; pes 3 Be * Hygienist allowed should state clearly that only persons trained to use the product ~ be , aison Henry Wilson NPCA Industrial _ or r pososdesssing specified knowledge should to use it s Patrick Hurd and NPCA 14 THE NOVEMBER 1982 .