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FILE NAME: Texaco (TEX) DATE: 1953 Oct DOC#: TEX016 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Trade Journal Article - Industrial Hygiene Foundation |viin'gcinent and Industrial Health-- Industrial Hygiene Foundation INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION at Mellon In stitute, I'ittslnirgh, Pennsylvania, has con tribute! greatly to the concept that the industrial health program is a management Himt. In the IS years of its existence it has made its influence felt iu hundreds of plants and in almost every type of industry. Workers employed by industry and commerce and their dependents iu the United States in 1952 constituted more than 100 million, or approximately two-thirds of the total popula tion. It is not inconceivable that the nation as a whole may have derived benefits from the tech nical advancement of industrial medicine and hy giene brought about through the Foundation's research, surveys, and allied activities. The Foundation'* Activitie* ; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION, Mellon Insti- 1 tuto, Pittsburgh, is u nun-profit research asso ciation. Its purpose Is the advancement of occupa tional health. It is concerned with human re sources as well as improvement of working condi tions. Its staff includes physicians, chemists, en gineers, biochemists, and medical technicians-- all specialists in health problems arising in indus try. Through affiliation with it, companies and associations arc entitled to the services of these specialists, to whom the technical facilities of Mellon Institute arc available. A typical morning mail may bring a request from n member company for plant tests to deter mine whether existing ventilation is adequately controlling the fume exposure In a specific opera tion. Another wants help In drawing up plans for construction of a new plant so that engineer ing controls can be incorporated. Stiil another needs measurements of the smoke emitted by its stneks. A fourth requests that a thorough audit be made of its medical policies, practices, facili ties, and costs. Special studies made by the Foundation for its member companies have passed the COO mark. Included are some 400 extensive field surveys, and 60 on specific phases of industrial problems encountered in the plants. In addition the Foun dation's specialists in engineering, medicine, chemistry and toxicology have made nearly 150 consultation visits throughout the country. Fortytwo basic research studies have been conducted at the Foundation's laboratories, and more than 125 analytical studies have been made. A number of the projects carried out by the Foundation have been on an industry-wide basis, so that many compnuics not directly involved in the re search have benefited from them. Two hundred eighteen companies and associations have taken advantage of the field services offered by the Foundation, many on a plant-wide basis. Many M*n*g*mtnt *nd M*dicin*--rgtstrlng for tit* Foundtin' S*v*nt**ntii Anmul M**ttng, *t MtUeit, Institut*. October, 1953 krt dustries of working together to achieve optimum industrial health has proved its value. While most of the work the Foundation does for individual companies is confidential, particularly operation* al procedures, much of its work concerns health practices and is fundamental in nature and there* fore can be made available generally. Thus the Foundation can act as a clearing house for as sembling and disseminating information, through both the accumulative experience of its able staff and the exchange of ideas of its member com panies through the medium of the annual meet ing and conferences. The Foundation provides a unifying force behind this endeavor in which management, labor, and the health professions join to bring progress in achieving healthful working conditions on a par with technical and scientific developments. Annuel Meeting end Conferences J?ACH year at its annual meeting the Foundation brings together more than 600 top executives, physicians, attorneys, and industrial health spe cialists whose united efforts are developing ways of improving industrial health and human re sources. A wealth of information is informally exchanged at the technical conferences by repre sentatives from member companies on medicine, engineering, chemistry and toxicology, and the legal aspects of industrial health. Special ses sions are held on selected subjects or for discus sion of common problems in industrial groups. Publications Tfl KEEP the public and its membership in formed, the Foundation issues , number -of publications, including the monthly jMuaijcm UqgteM p im tr which is sent to nearly pe^iw designated by % m Technical pi|s inphiber.- ftfP &l90 ulSvflOUtliQa rivflrl]) OvV tiohslie b^rtlfi^sedtodate. How If Serves 'J'H E FOUNDATION gives direct professional a s sistance to member companies in the study of industrial health problems and their solution: it assists companies in the development of health programs as an essential part of -industrial- or ganization ; and it contributes to the technical advancement of industrial medicine and hygiene, through research, surveys and allied activities. Typical of these sendees is a recently com pleted Industrial hygiene survey. While excellent progress had already been made iu providing a good working environment and protecting the health of the worker, the officials of the company envisioned additional benefits to'be derived from a permanent full-fledged industrial hygiene de partment. Industrial Hygiene Foundation wa asked to lay the groundwork for broadening an enhancing the scope of the industrial hygien activities to provide even better working cond: tions. A study was made of the working enviror ment, which furnished an inventory of nuisanc exposures and potential hazards. Evaluation were made on the basis of observations, and ii formation on operational procedures and reprt sentative data were obtained by measurement ( chemical and physical environmental factors. R< suits of the study are important from the shor term veiwpoint, but more significantly they ha\ a fundamental value in providing a foundatio on which the company is building a continuin and permanent program of environmental an medical study and evaluation. Training Program 'jptAiNiKG of young men in specific fields of ii dustrial hygiene is a service that is offer by the Foundation to all of its members. B working with the, Foundation staff a t its heat quarters a t Mellon Institute the trainee gaiT practical experience. Didactic training,.throug seminars, lectures and planned reading program supplements the research work. The trainee encouraged to maintain liaison with the Found.tion after completion of the training prograr A similar valuable service is frequently utilize by a company to greatest benefit a t the tiir the Foundation is conducting a field survey b selecting a company man to work with the Foui dntion staff. This man can then work towards continuing maintenance program. Air Pollution Studies pollution investigations being sponsored fc 4 the fourth consecutive year by the America Iron and Steel Institute include a trainee pit gram. Fourteen trainees have participated in th program to date. The men contribute to the r< search work and at the same time are indoctr nated with an understanding of the nature of th air pollution problem. The research has include studies on the chemistry of sulfur dioxide oxldx tion, the development of low-cost instrument for the measurement of a ir pollution intensity s ground level, and a project on the kinetic b< havior of particulate m atter in stack gases, i relation to the problem of measuring dust i such gases, that will ultimately embrace the pei formance of dust-and-fume collection equipmem Instruments designed and constructed by th Foundation's engineering staff in connection w it the air pollution studies for the American Iro and Steel Institute have made possible simple and more reliable methods of a ir pollution samp ling techniques. . The I.S.I. Automatic Smoke Sampler has al m Industrial Mrdieiuc and Surgcr.