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FILE NAME Industrial Hygiene Foundation IHF DATE 1948 DOC IHF018 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION IHF Foundation Facts - July oe i :ye i. INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION LD FOUNDATION FOUNDATION Vol 10 FOUNDATI FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOUNDATI FOUNDATION FOUNDATION February 1948 wal Foundation Facts is a monthly letter issued to industrial concerns holding membership In Industrial Hygiene Foundation The Foundation is a profit association of industries for the advancement of healthful working conditions No. 2 Twelfth Annual Meeting Transactions Published The official Transactions for the 12th Annual Meeting of trial Hygiene Foundation held at Mellon Institute Pittsburgh on published late in February and mailed to Members and Subscribers Members of Indus- November 20 were pointed This pertinent bulletin entitled A Better Place keynote address by William B. Given Jr. President to Work includes the of American Brake Shoe in Company which has attracted such wide attention More than 5,000 copies of the ad- dress have been distributed to date and it has been reprinted a number of journals Other subjects of immediate interest in the Transactions include ; COMMUNITY ATTITUDE ON WORKING CONDITIONS RESULTS OF FOUNDATION FIELD RE- SEARCH INDUSTRIAL HEALTH PROGRAMS IN ACTION SUMMARIES OF CONFERENCES held in connection with the annual meeting INDUSTRIAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATION ATOMIC POWER AND INDUSTRY SICKNESS INSURANCE and HEALTH AND WELFARE FUNDS UNDER THE TAFT HARTLEY ACT _ Review of Flu Vaccination Experience |a A report on Results of Influenza Vaccination in Industry During the 1947 mee ~~ Epidemic prepared by Anna M. Baetjer Sc.D. of the Hopkins University was i issued by the Foundation recently This material was made available to the Members j in advance of publication through the courtesy of Dr. Baetjer It will be recalled that she made an important presentation on the subject of influenza at the 1946 annual meeting See Health in Industry Transactions 11th Annual Meeting ) Foundation Committees Plan Meeting 4 will The Foundation's MEDICAL COMMITTEE of which Dr. A.J. Lanza is Chairman hold an day meeting in New York on March 10. The agenda includes plans for a number of the sponsored activities of benefit to Foundation Members Boston Boston 2. cians _ The CHEMICAL AND TOXICOLOGICAL COMMITTEE is holding a luncheon meeting in late in March in connection with the annual meeting of the Industrial and Surgeons and the Industrial Physi- COMMITTEE is Hygiene Association The Foundation's LEGAL planning to meet in New York on May 6 Hatch Named Chairman of Two National Committees Meanwhile pointpeodinted Theodore F. Hatch the Foundation's Research Director to the National Research Council's Committee was recently ap- on Sanitary Engineering and He will serve as Chairman of the committee on Industrial Hygiene Codes Meanwhile Mr. Hatch has also accepted the chairmanship of the Committee and Exhaust Systems of the American Standards on Safety Association Hive, RIALRIAL HYGIENE HYGIHYEGINENEE FOUNDATION FOUNDATION -- 4400 FIFTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 13 PA , , : < VA bp mits ae \ Ae it aes LD Spay 6 , f FOUNDATION FOUNDATI FOUNDATI FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOUNDATI FOUNDATION FOUNDATION . FACTS FACTS Foundation Facts is a monthly letter issued to industrial concerns holding membership in Industrial Hygiene Foundation The Foundation is a profit association of industries for the advancement of healthful working conditions 141 149 # 150 154 ee = 187 144 a isms 3 Vol 10 March 1948 Foundation Announces New Laboratory No. 3 Industrial Hygiene Foundation has arranged with Elizabeth Steel Magee Hospital part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to occupy a laboratory building providing facilities for expansion of the Foundation's basic researches in industrial health headquarters at Mellon Institute The building is located near the Foundation's Andrew Fletcher President of the St. Joseph Lead Company and Chairman _ of the Foundation's Board an in a recent communication to Member companies announc- ing new facilities said in part In addition to our routine plant and field studies we propose to develop at the new Laboratory an organization for the primary use of our Members along the following lines ; 1. Toxicological studies including animal work the 12 Research in industrial hygiene methods along line of development of new instruments method of analysis and procedures for use in practical field work etc. - 3 Engineering research under controlled laboratory conditions such as air cleaning methods ventilation requirements etc. The additional laboratory facilities have been necessitated by the increasing demand from Member companies for investigations in fundamental and applied phases of industrial hygiene and toxicology and in industrial physiology The first project will be started early in April TRIAL TRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION -- 4400 FIFTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 13 PA Foundation Secures Additional Laboratory Facilities i nae IAN a Oe crcl te NRE A building Pittsburgh at the Elizabeth Steel Magee Hospital part of the University of Medical Center where Industrial Hygiene laboratories in order to expand its research Foundation has arranged for building building is located near the program and facilities The Foundation's headquarters at Mellon Institute ; 1948 3 1948 . FOUNDATION FACTS FACTS SOUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION Vol 10 FACTS FACTS . Foundation Facts is a monthly letter issued to industrial concerns holding membership in Industrial Hygiene Foundation The Foundation is a profit association of industries for the advancement of healthful working conditions May 1948 No. 5 Annual Meeting Date Fixed for Nov. 18 Conferences Nov. 17 & 19 meeting Trustees of Industrial Hygiene Foundation in New York recently fixed the date for the at their Spring annual 13th annual meeting of Founda- tion Members for Thursday November 18 at Mellon Institute Pittsburgh The pro- gram for this meeting will be planned for management representation from member companies Professional conferences for industrial health specialists will be held on November 17 and 19 the day before and the day after the main meeting These conferences limited to one representative for 1 physicians 2 for engineers 3 4 for attorneys compensation personnel from industrial Member companies are for chemists and toxicologists and and industrial relations executives Details concerning the Meeting and the Conferences will be sent to Members in the fall and companies will be requested to designate their representatives at that time Meanwhile the Staff of Industrial Hygiene Foundation invites suggestions from Members for program subject matter . Legal Committee Meets The Foundation's Legal Committee headed by Mr. Theodore C. Waters Chairman met at the Harvard Club in New York on May 6. The principal discussion dealt with planning the agenda for the Legal Conference in connection with the Foundation's annual meeting As , will be a half discussion to be held last year on November 17 the Conference Staff Traveling Extensively 3 The Foundation's Staff is traveling extensively in connection with B field researches and special studies for Member companies Dr. C. Richard Walmer , f Medical Director covered more than 20,000 miles during the past 30 days Mr. Theodore F. Hatch Research Director and Mr. W.C.L. Hemeon Head Engineer have also been spending more time in the field than at the Foundation's headquarters in Mellon Institute Projects have included trial Engineering assistance on new plant design study of needs for an indus- trial hygiene program survey of industrial medical administration a community pollution problem and dust and fume control Dr. E.R. Weidlein Awarded Priestley Medal friend Dr. Edward R. Weidlein Director of Mellon Institute and time and supporter of Industrial Hygiene Foundation has been awarded the Priestley Medal highest honor in American chemistry Among his other accom- Flishments Flishments Dr. Weidlein was largely responsible Dation's Dation's wartime synthetic rubber program for planning and organizing the IAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION -- 4400 FIFTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 13 PA A pa aN MESA. >3)) gx A 4 s in 4 PR USTRIAL HYGIENE ! FOUNDATION FOUNDATIONFOUNDATION nanan Foundation Facts is a monthly letter issued to industrial concerns holding membership in Industrial Hygiene Foundation The Foundation is a profit association of industries for the advancement of healthful working conditions Vol 10 July 1948 No. 7 Research Advisory Council Formed serve trial Announcement is made of the appointment of a Research Advisory Council to the Foundation especially in connection with the operatioonf its new indus- health laboratory in the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Members of the Council all presently associated with the Foundation in various capacities are Theodore F. Hatch Secy W.A. Hamor Sc.D. T. Lyle Hazlett M.D. . A.J. Lanza M.D. Willard Machle M.D. W.P. Yant Sc.D. R.E. Zimmerman Sc.D. Research Director Assistant Director Medical Director Assoc Med Director Consultant Director of Research Vice President Industrial Hygiene Foundation Mellon Institute Westinghouse Electric Corp. Metropolitan Life Ins Co. New York City Mine Safety Appliances Co. U.S. Steel Corp. of Del Prof. Drinker Representing H at International Congress , Prof. Philip Drinker of the Harvard School of Public Health will serve as the official representative of Industrial Hygiene Foundation at the Ninth Inter- ~ national Congress on Industrial Health to be held in London September 12-17 F since the Prof. Drinker has been chairman of the Preventive Engineering Committee formation of the Foundation in 1935. He is also a member of the Founda- tion's Board of Trustees Articles on Dust Exposure and Dust Analysis j E Hygiene Companion articles and Toxicology are appearing in the May 1948 Journal of Industrial - \ Influence of Particle Size in Dust Exposure Theodore F. W.C.L. Hemeon Industrial Hygiene Foundation Hatch and Ray Diffraction Analysis of Crystalline Dusts Harold P. Leroy Alexander and Elizabeth Kummer Mellon Institute Klug Copies of these reprints are available to interested members and sub- . scribers upon request Beat the Heat Carnegie Steel Corporation Industrial Relations bas issued an entertaining pamphlet addressed to employees entitled Beat the Heat effective Written in rhyme and illustrated with cartoons it , effective message for warm weather living Department) How You Can carries an F HYGIENE HYGIENE FOUNDATION 4400 FIFTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 13 PA se eee eS attle in and no is to crucial superthe- lp undamental tive 3 of ese ratory that 4 ility of 7 some- teach a basis er students ch students these then ef ect effect . ate effect tential he faster LOBBY CONFERENCES were popular Talking in one are from left to right S. W. Gurney Liberty Mutual Insurance Company A. S. Johnson American Mutual Liability Insurance Company B. E. Kuechle Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Company of Wisconsin and W.C.L. Hemeon engineering director Industrial Hygiene Foundation COLLABORATORS Prof. Philip Industrial Dust enjoy a chat at of the Foundation and chairman Drinker left and Theodore F. Hatch who the annual meeting Prof. Drinker a of the Preventive Engineering Drinker Committee Committee wrote Pittsburgh Mr. Hatch is laboratory director of the Health Engineering Graduate School of Foundation and professor of Public Health University of Pittsburgh