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FILE NAME Colonial Sugar Refinery CSR
DATE 1972 Mar
DOC CSR056
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Letter to Dept of Labour from Fletcher Holdings Ltd & James Hardie & Coy Pty Ltd. Arguing that Asbetos Board is
Safe
The The nat Te Chief Chief Chief fet lee
ttEngier e te
TheChief SafetyEngineer
P.C. Box12-070 AUCKLAND
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thank opportunity youfor the to consideration We eee
cei
recommenced
consideration recommenced Codes ofPractice
submit
for
fa or your
The handling working and fixing of
Disposalofwastes of
construction containiangsbestos ing constructionproducts
in the bull and oe
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Se tod
ee When
considering considercinog nsidering
there
Cases
of
Practice
It is essential
; _ tofully appreciate appreciate thatthe types ooffproductsand their uses vary
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We embrace products belleve it la unseasonable unseasonableunseasonable to
all
which -.
incorporate asbestos unuer the loose terms asbestos products
and Important to fentify the difference between anasbestos
bull board and an asbestos board
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Aclear of So
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concise line demarcation demarcation ccan anbedrawnbetseen
these twottwo ypes of products vianasbestos cement building boas
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reinforcing medium ~ should be recognised as a high sensity product in which asbestos is
7 re a used as a reinfocg
sensity .
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An asbestos boara should be
be recognised product in which asbestosasbestos is used prima.ily
prima.ily rejni cing mediwa |
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aslow density
forpurposesother than a
desirability fierentiate _
than .
vee
cack. The reason for the
to
betwesa
desirability te oe ee, these pro uctspro uctsis that as the
of asbestos in the asbestos,
percentage i considerably aebestos oh
Coe
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cement bulluing u boat is considerably less
, so the risk factor is
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in an
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by Selfkolf This supported ar
reasoning reasoning
issupspourtpepd orted
D. Irving J.
Li) Director of theDivision of Favimental Favimental Medicine at Mt
Hospital Sinat New York City and draw
attentionto our and
, a
your woe Employment Carette Vol 11 February1971 page 26 which
m later pistes pistes selfsaysthatproducts in asbestos
has been bonded into the material such asfloorandceilingtiles
vicing a rooting
and pipe re not consluered consluered ^ cauer of cancer *
supported advisoryleaflet Environment pipea is also
by an
no 30 Health
Risks in Construction issued by the Department of the
United Kingdom whichstates inter allaasbestos productssuch
asbestos cement sheets and
and mouldedproductssuch as pipea
cafe to handle as supplied when a small amount of hanscutting
tiles Is cone in theopen airor in well ventilated room the health risk fa
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aad
The articlethengives givesprecautions to be taken ifmechanical a
similar means areemployed to cut the materialof There are very
those set out in ourrecommended recomended Codes of PracticePractice t
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: 2 cutles and responsiblites responsibilities of supervisors workersand employers in : a
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ob: aus.
building industry the
and construction
Cee hin
recognised Asbestosis by - oodmedical
medical receivedthe
It is of interest to note that
was
profession to be an occupational claease in the 1920s and
Regulations ee
received statutory recognition in the British Asbestos
of
+ 4 1033. Interest in the biological effects of asbestos has continued since =.
has oeoS * _ then unabated exceptfor the pellad pellad ofWorld War beeben en
particularly lively over the last 15 yeast There have been two .
.
York in 1964 ce
et
eo,
international conferences wholly devotedthe subject in New and In Dresden in 1063apart from these the scientific
cn
papers published
on
1
the
subject
in
the last
decaderunintothousands
T - o
were suffering from the adverse effects of expasbestoso exspousr ure e *
_ result of working with asbestos buildingboards inthe building -
andconstruction industry thematter havebeenCocumented and oe
> reportedin the learned journais
Po
consity a _ ra a 2: Thereisnoevidence to show that groups ofworkers in the '
og
tn
bull.ing bull.ing and construction industry using high
asbestos cement
eR
building boards have been affected
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We have thereforetherefore prepared prepared recommended Codes of Practice - |
which we submit for your consideration on the basis that thoulatethoulate
dema.cation dema.cation between asbestascement cemenbtuildingboards andasbestos boarme
Our Companieswouldwelcomeany further alscussion with
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ee / Officers of the Department Department ifit isdeemed warranted bytheDepartment
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