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* BFG29771 C- s j. bo* o A 12 THE lOUVfU flMES, TUESDAY, FEMUARY,.2d, Tf7< = `i^y. -af- It blasts rules on *. ! vinyl chloride i (Continued Fro'!fi*er$ijf' jQtat any company, using viriyi chloride ` jteglstcr such use with the Stu ttop*rf aaerrt of Labor by July , , c l The mended rtguiriion risotey* tb.* f'slfuatj<ras where votkefo an exposed Mo levels In excess of 200 -part* per nil* Sion without proper protective equipment' Mull be wnridercd'to. constitute sc easl*: ("Yfe*re betag accused ofdoiciwtud^ Industry told us to do,"- Slock saia^and That'* pot true ... It was our probteh to ^Kentucky and we seeded to do something > bout it Samuels Is being critical of the no group that has taken aciion.'1 Samuels, however, didn't see it that ay. "1! is a horrible Situation,'' he said. Jnttl this happened we had nothing but juris* fur Or, Block and the Kentucky Stealth department. But their role h not rstondard-setfing and they've shown ini^HvnejKiMStsdsoQfdt OftihfhatiVl1abor hygienists, had c? appeared *t last u-cci's state standi-setling bearing in Frenkiort, "would vt add they should not set * standard-- Mho* It so established threshold level toad roa can't pby a numbers game." & Were exdoa men Invited? . t Further. Samuels contended, be. and mother union hygiene specialists were not invited to last weds'* hearing, horwwr*' itbey advised ttf it "A phone cab to ttsf - %erith end eafriy people would have got- staae action, without quwtion." he i'Block, however, said tbot an invitation called to United Bobber Worker* to- dklsttid -hygiene director Louis Bebefty fxjefore there wax an announcement in the papers. .vHe knew aboui n but he frit *tfe should bo3iiewbcre *\ the time.". > j Belictkyjc^dd Jopt be reached tor com- gmmt- '* * i Meanwhile, Samuclaaild the APW30 andustriri Union Department is planning court actios to seek an order to preempt -Kew York, Illinois--and ntr' Kentucky-- from operating their own state oecupa- riesal fc<y programs itod pul control' . an the tends of the tedcrsl goverarowitr Labor leaders freoucnily have com plained that the federal-state regulatory (program is occupation*! besltli and'safe ly, whfcfc puls the bsaic enforrisment pow- \ert In stolohands, is.eomplitried asfl con- jtradlctory, dhpnriUg workers of uniform -protection from or.c state to the next/ ; - ~ The Fedtrxl .Occupational Safety and' < g sSeaiib Adpjietstfanon^tOSHAi^npw is' Wsontlderiag the addition of vinyl chloride _ Ho its own list of M Industrial otoinogens ' ^ which would make it the same Ust in - -effect to Kentucky. *js. . . 1 itSa* i Laboc vtms tedesay i . . . ; " t i Labor has urged OSHa to trite tbd kb-t dioa on an emergency bads to proride protection to more than 6.0W workers /dirtetiv involved in vinyl-riiloride pro- cesses around the country. ; , Industry lepreseoutives have called on .the agency to take a more deliberative approach through rule-making fjwece- ,dum tost tjwwjis. Include studies and (hearings and was;My not produce a new : standard for many months. ; ' * ' Samuels also 'complained' ytoterday ,lh*t Kentucky had failed to incorporate ' ,foto its vjRi'f-cfclnride'regulations a set of. (work pmtires reooaimeDdod to' tiio Hiosal institute of Occupational Safety (and Health (KIOSH) for improving plant {Minditlote j He rise ww critical of Kentucky's and Goodrich's ability to monitor plant tonsh- liens (c determine whether,the atondstrat twill be met- '- Slock replied that, there is ?no evi- ricscc that. Goodrich hasn't done what NiOSH reccmnnSided, ... - fir wn- areas, Ougr\* actually gone beyond the . recontmendalloas.. If tbri'ri- donut it vol* - turta/ily, It suits us. Vi like to keep ft ibis way, tort wo intend to follow up and see that they follow those practice*." * *%.J *. Block conceded, however, that monitor- . (lag mai- pos< joma^pfoTflemts af least in the immediate ftttorC'fio smd the'state 1 now is limited (o'"older" monitoring tech- , nhpsea and "can't do the continuous kind i of monitoring like the companies do." { The Kentoddan said tbs state now is f-btrey^intgo totoOmpt'omthbadsileoHsVng.''dju' lpnaud Wp' X W parts nwbisett . I. , Block arid that, on the basis of what is ^ikcnholowrindeavbo*putbTthV<''ntjoOklloltef3teteutrsc of ripylseffitoto' {indicate no advene effects ia bumaotjp (60 parts per million concenfritldns" --* <*' i the new state limit, ^ (assure anjonc (that) Uw* wil} be ne ? effect* unless fhcre is sero, tore] of . ,-posure, but with that:(here would be.ne- t - i pperaiion,... We turijta^fe witii vrtu&am T- tbad. , fu mldnt ,i^-aood-con4cijec con* Hnue with the' stjm&4 as; H. WtS` (SpO v >.; g*rts)------ tfw^tiCIO IT to posses-' ] son ef medical experience* that show a ,v--j level o SO ia aWw^deotf they ------- -aoomeforward-- - BFG29772 ZOQVSZfrZ