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FILE NAME Insulation Contractors & Distributors ICD DATE 1975 June DOC ICD034 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Trade Journal - NICA Outlook CULA OFFICE OUTLOOK Vol 20 No. June 1975 i OFFICE NICA .... ..stronger voice in your interest in Washingt OUTLOOK National Insulation Contractors Association National Insulation Contractors Association Montgomery Center 8630 Fenton Street - Suite 506 Silver Spring Maryland 20910 telephone 301-585-8441 John C. Pollock Executive Director G. W. Hinman Jr Chairman NICA Publications Committee Officers 1975 C. B. Wheatley President L. E Sweetser President F A. Burns President Wayne W. Killion Treasurer R. Kramig Asst Treasurer R. L. Plugge Secretary BOARD OF DIRECTORS Terms Ending 1976 J Rodger Hartley CSICA Walter Shipe EASICA William O. Mauldin MICA Raymond U. Wopperer NYSICA Charles 8. Morton SWICA Stan Stachelek Large ay Terms Ending 1977 George Smith CSICA Joseph Hoffmann SEICA .MICA _ WICA Terms Ending 1978 Richard Madigan SEICA Palph Sarton NICA Pe James W. Liddell Large an Chiton Johnson FASICA ete Aerisen P. Keasbey Jr NYSICA se Nilham T Morrow SWICA Immediate Past President Wilham A. Bayer Annual Subscription 10 which is included in the Membership Dues Single copy 1.50 Three year rate at 23 U.S. & Canada~... Foreign subscriptions add $ to above rates Controlled paid Silver Spring Md Statements of und opinion are made on the responsibility of the author alone and do not necessarily the Association express the opinions of Material may not be Ground without written consent Copyright National Insulation Contactors Association - 1975 TABLE OF CONTENTS VOL 20 JUNE 1975 NO The President's Letter Your Executive Director's Report How to Read Financial Reports NICA Puts Input on Pension Act Hearing Members of Congress Respond ISF is Easy with IAF A Strong Stand FOR Bacon Act Named Honorary Members Son Accepts Big Brother Award for Father Tennis Anyone Fore AC & S Inc. Announces Promotions Meet Your NICA Members NICA Salutes SWICA Calendar of Coming Events Thank You What's New from Manufacturers News from Contractors President's Letter Company J. Hunter of Starr Davis NICA's Health and Safety Greensboro North Carolina Committee is Chairman of and the guest writer for this month's President's Letter J. T. is not a on the Health and stranger to NICA committee work having served 1974 and Safety Committee in 1972 the insurance Committee in 1973 having devoted much of his time to the betterment of NICA and He has also served as President Vice President Treasurer SEICA over the past many years and Board Member for * * x The health and safety of our employees at the work place is serious business and we have the Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1970 OSHA to insure that we as employers implement and manage good safety programs NICA through its Health and Safety Committee seeks to assist our members by providing health and safety information to our which will aid in educating our emplomyeemebserinshtihpe establishment and maintenance of good and safety practices at the work place health In an effort to design an informational program we need input from our membership concerning those areas of most significant interest Particularly we are interested establishing statistics regarding citations of cur members by OSHA and any resultant penalties fines etc. Of course this information would be treated in a confidential fashion by the NICA staff and only the statistical results therefrom would be disseminated to the general membership We need also to know your interests in other types of programs such as periodic distri- bution of safety posters outlined programs for use with your foreman and and an indication from superintendents you concerning which areas to place most emphasis i.e contracting distribution of materials warehousing shop fabrication In the past the NICA OSHA Task Force has Bradshaw supplied you with a report on OSHA regulations which dealt in detail with standards for exposure to asbestos dust The Health and Safety Committee of 1972 under the chairmanship of Don prepared for our membership an excellent booklet which deals with many of the health and safety hazards of the insulation insulation insulation insulation insulation be n industry and their remedies There has beenbeen available for some time to each certain health and safety posters available from our NICA office of our members tags and labels We believe that the past NICA Health and Safety Committees have done excellent jobs We want to see that this is continued however we want to make sure that we as your Health and Safety Committee are providing information to you in those areas where your interest is greatest To help accomplish this we are preparing a simple questionnaire asking that each of you complete and return to the NICA office as soon as possible Remember we are your committee entrusted entrusted toserve you Let us know your wishes we will make every effort to comply ORF in Phiae wl eh dae HVE me ster Ory Ech VAD ny RRS we abl ols Wate HET aa ones kay kay kay kay MonBoth athe, St Abhe Soc 2 NICA OUTLOOK Environmental Sciences Leboratory of The City University of New York INSULATION INSULATION HYGIENE PROGRESS PROGRESS REPORTS REPORTS FROM THE INSULATION INDUSTRY HYGIENE RESEARCH PROGRAM Irving J Selikoff M.D. Program Director Vol == Summer 1975 Identification System for Adhesives Inadequate change and shower facilities can lead to extensive amounts of asbestos and other dusts being brought home to contaminate workers 4 households Here the only change facilities on this construction site is an open trailer Spread Asbestos Disease Can ' Families to Workers Families A widening spectrum of asbestos disease has been found by Dr. Henry Anderson and other scientists of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine ^ na study just completed of 326 family cuntacts of former asbestos factory work ers it has been found that 35 had ray abnormalities characteristic of asbestos exposure These data were presented by Dr. Anderson on March 24th to the Conference on Occupational Carcinogenesis held at the New York Academy of Sciences The family menibers potentially af- fected included all in the household it was not simply the wife of the worker who would shake dust from her hus- band's clothes before washing them Affected were children brothers and sisters as well as wives It would ap- pear that the dust had been present throughout the household brought home on the clothes of the factory workers The workers were employed at a factory that manufactured amosite insulation material often for use in Naval ships but also widely used in power plants and industrial insulation It operated from 1941 through 1954. Many of the workers whose families later devel- oped signs of asbestos exposure were employed for relatively short periods of time The dust exposures to the family members however could have been longer Asbestos once in the house is difficult to remove and exposures could continue long after cessation of the husband's or father's employment In other studies by Mount Sinai re- search workers asbestos dust has been found still present in households of , continued on page 4 It is now possible to report that prog ress is being made on the development of an identification system for hazard- ous materials including adhesive ce- ment sealants and similar products used in applying insulation materials The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has an advisory committee which has developed the basic principles of an identification system This committee under the direction of Roy Resnick has met with Roy Steinfurth Administrator of the Insulators Health Hazards Program and Duncan A. Holaday of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine to review the special prob- lems associated with the use of adhe sives in the insulation industry Hazards Identified The OSHA committee has decided on the basic principles of an identification system which will be applicable to a variety of industrial products Signal words such as Danger Caution and Warning will be used to show degree of hazard The principal types of hazards will be identified by words such as Flammable or Health Hazard and statements lis,, - ing additional information needed for protection will also be required Some identification of the principal component will also be given Particularly hazardous substances such as wood alcohol benzene xylene and -toluene required named if theythey compose more than stated percen- tages of the product Altogether this could mean that labels on industrial products would be as informative as those now required on products intended for household use This would indeed be an improve- ment over the present situation Cur- continued on page 3 oo Insulation Hygiene Progress Reports Vol 7 No. 2 Summer 1975 Insulation from the Industry Hygiene Research Program Editor W J. Nicholson Ph.D Published at the Environmental Environmental Sciences Laboratory Irving J. Selikoff M.D. Director Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York N.Y. 10029 Advisory Council of IIHRP Irving J. Selikoff M.D. Program Director and Chairman E. Cuyler Hammond Sc.D. Vice President American Cancer Society New York N.Y. Andrew Haas General President International Association of Heat and Frost lasulators and Asbestos Workers Washington D.C. PURPOSES OF THE INSULATION INDUSTRY HYGIENE RESEARCH PROGRAM 1. To develop improved methods for minimizing exposure of insu- iation workers to dusts and fumes encountered in their work 3. To disseminate knowledge of these improved methods of dust control wherever they may be applied advantageously and to offer cooperation advice and assistance toward their universal adoption Contained SupplieAidr Respirator Available The removal of old asbestos- last year and manufactured by the M containing material continues to be a major source of exposure to insulation workers While out is only done oc- Occupational Health and Safety Pro- ducts Division will operate for over four hours and provide protection in the is casionally the dust concentrations dur dustiest of environments during re- ing this procedure can be so high that moval of asbestos material The res- A special respiratory protection must be pirator weighs only 10 pounds There used Often asbestos fiber concentra- no resistance to breathing no conden- 1s tions exceed 100 fibers per milliliter 20 satioonf moistuarned face fit not times the current standard particular importance According to the OSHA Asbestos Standard employees engaged in the removal or demolition of pipes structures or equipment covered or insu- lated with asbestos must use type C continuous flow or pressure supplied respirators In addition special coveralls gloves and shoe coverings are to be employed to prevent contamination of clothing by asbestos fibers On jobs where externally supplied air from tanks or compressors is availa- ble a variety of hoods may be obtained for connection to the air source Often however a supply of breathable air is not readily available or the use of a long air hose may give rise to safety risks Powered Unit Available Additionally if air is supplied by compressors provisions must be made to remove oil and water mists and to insure that carbon monoxide does not get into the system through improper placement of the air intake In such circumstances a battery- powered air cleaner and hood have special utility One model available in the Maintenance Important The respirator should however be checked periodically by personnel familiar with its operation Any replacement parts required should be those of the manufacturer and their in- structions for servicing and repair should be followed carefully Other supplied breathing devices are available in which cylinders of oxygen or of compressed air are carried by the worker Several approved types exist but they are more complicated to use and more cumbersome than the previously described powered air filtering unit Moreover those using compressed air have a maximum use time of only 30 minutes before a new cylinder must be obtained Those using oxygen have a longer operating time but require chemical filtering of exhaled air The face dust respirators commonly available on job sites are not suitable for use during removal of as- bestos insulation materials The use of such respirators is limited to conditions in which dust concentrations are less than ten times the existing standard contained supplied The piece face of respirator It will operate for four hours using a | rechargeable battery A diagram of the battery pack fan motormotor and = filter of the respirator It weighs 10 pounds _- Conference Held on Labels Necessary Occupational Cancer for Hazardous Materials 1 _ continued from page the recently concluded New York Academy of Sciences Conference on - Occupational Carcinogenesis Carcinogenesis a variety of research studies were presented con- _ cerning the health of asbestos workers Of prime importance was the presenta tion on the presence of asbestos disease members of workers dis- in the family of this issue cussed in the lead article A paper by Dr. Robert Morgan of the University of Toronto related cancer of the larynx with asbestos ex- This cancer as lung cancer is posure smok- also strongly related to cigarette Similar data have been found ing workers where a among insulation threefold increase in laryngeal cancer has been found in research of Dr. Irving J. Selikoff of the Mount Sinai School of OO Asbestos Like Exposure Studied Among other studies were a report Occupational on the morbidity and mortality among hardrock miners exposed to an asbes- tiform mineral Here a study by the National Institute for Safety and Health investigated the - health of underground metal miners to a fibrous mineral virwith exposure tually identical to amosite asbestos a material used extensively in marine insulation and also formerly in much pipe Medicine Participants at the conference not only considered causes of occupational cancer but some also offered sug- for medical surveillance gestions Several researchers dis- and treatment cussed the usefulness of sputum cytol- in which coughed up from the olugnyg are screened for indications of possible cancer More Effective Surgery Possible Studies of former asbestos workers covering and asbestos block In an analysis of 70 deaths a threefold increase in lung cancer was found Additionally a review of chest fibrosis to rays showed pulmonary be present in the group of workers even the fiber concentrations that though mine were only were measured in the 0.24 fibers per milliliter twentieth of the current U.S Asbestos Standard second report by scientists from and of uranium miners suggest that lung cancer can be detected in its very early offering the hope for more ef- stages Needless to say how- fective surgery ever the best prevention for asbestos is to not breathe the fibers in the cancer firsFtipnlaalclye a review of the suitability of the current U.S. Asbestos Standard was presented by Dr. William Nichol- son of the Insulation Hygiene Research Program In his presentation he dis- oi. -. NIOSH also is of interest to insulation workers David L. Bayliss data on deaths among fibrous glass protecting duction workers No unusual mortality was found in the large majority of workers This was to be expected as these workers had been exposed pre- dominantly to large diameter fibers which would not be carried into the deeper segments ofthe lungs However it was suggested that one to of workers exposed in the past group thinner fibers could have an increased risk of respiratory cancer This This is of as these small special importance ofter used indiameter fibers are now stead of asbestos in high temperature for prescurecent standard's effectiveness for pro- asbestos workers and urged that protecting it be im- as technology is developed mediately implemeanstbeedstionstehxepaossbuersetotso industry to reduce the lowest feasible level as rapidly as posTshieblceonference marked the two hun- dredth anniversary of the first research paper published obny oPcecrucpivaatllanPaolit^oanr- cinogenesis that In scrotal cancer in chimney sweeps his opening remarks the conference chairman Dr. Joseph K. Wagoner of NIOSH decried the slow progress in controlling occupational cancers in modern industry Insulation material rently many labels give inadequate in- formation or none at all on what hazards might be involved or what pre- cautions should be followed Procedure Guides Necessary The advisory committee has very additional tasks These in- important of use guides and clude the preparation training materials which will describe actions to be taken and procedures to be followed when certain statements ap- pear on the labels For example how should products labeled Extremely Flam- mable be stored and applied What action is called for when the words use only with adequate ventilation appear on the label The Occupational Safety and Health Act places the responsibility on the employer for protecting his employees bui it is obvious that many small need assistance in deciding employers what protective measures are required for various situations Workmen will also need instructions on how to trans- late labels into protective action arcne No Serious Objections Expected probable It is that the larger manufac will not have serious objections objections } turers -ystem Indeed they now they now comply comply with with simdar simdar simdar simdar products tions for household preparing manufacturers may find regula regula Small the Materials Hazards Data Sheets a large task and also may object to disclosure of the composition of their products As the system will probably not call identification of hazard for specific such compounds but only a statement 2ws Petroleum Distillate or Ako- hbols e resolved It is anticipated that the advisory committee report will be completed by continued on page 4 Family Dust Brought Home Can Affect mo Two asbestos workers cutting block Relatively little dust is dispersed into the air Asbestos Disease Can Spread to Workers Families continued from page 1 these former factory workers 20 years - ciosure of the plant -lesothelioma a cancer often linked to asbestos Bund exposure has family also been members Of 252 deaths so far identified among nousehold contacts of these former workers two have been from pleural mesothelioma Additionally two other mesothelioma cases have been iden- unico in living members of this group These cases have the following his- tories who worked from 1945 through 1948 of individual worker hygiene and demonstrates the need for adequate changing facilities and showers Under no circumstances should dusty clothes be brought into the home even in he put into the washing machine They should be washed separately preferably by a commercial industrial laundry service equipped to handle asbestos contami- nated work clothes For family contacts who suspect they have been exposed to considerable household contamination medical sur- veillance in order The family physi- cian should be told the exposure history so that ray and chest examinations and subsequent medical problems can be closely monitoredmonitored for possible The year 41 41 daughter year daughter daughter of of The plant's chief engineer Y. The year daughter of a man who had worked in the plant for five years The family lived near the plant and the daughter used to bring her father lunch every day when she was 10 years old N A year woman who i lived in the home of her brother while he worked at the plant for six months Prior to that she lived one mile from ^fine plant and played frequently in the homes of friends whose fathers worked in the plant The results of this study dramatize the need for stringent dust control and cleanup in situations where asbestos is used It also heightens the importance sea tees is only the most recent in a series of scientific publications that show family and environmental asbestos risk As early as 1960 scientists reported cases of mesothelioma in individuals who had had no prior occupational exposure to asbestos Later mesothelioma cases were re- ported in individuals whose only identi- with their having lived within half mile of an asbestos manufacturing focil ity or in households of asbestos workers Dr. Anderson's findings show that such problems may turn out to be quite common and that more persons than suspected may be at risk from asbestos exposure and require appropriate sur- veillance ce r @ ., . but much is failing on their clothes and shoes and may be carried home Label Report Available Soon continued from page 3 June 15 1975. Following this report proposed regulations would be pre- pared published in the Federa Regis- ter comments comments received revised regulations prepared and hearings held After the hearings final regulations would be drawn up and promulgated The full process could well take a year However when the committee re- port becomes available further discussions will be held between representa- tives of the insulators and OSHA 10 determine which of the recommenda- tions can be implemented without wait ing for regulations to be promulgated This situation is not limited to pro- ducts used by insulators but is widespread throughout the construction in- dustry Members of the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades especially have need of adequate labeling of the products they use Progress is being made but much still needs to be done to insure that when regulations are adopied they will be effective Here the Asbestos Workers Painters and other affected union members should review the published recommendations to verify that the proposed labeling is adequate for the materials they use and the instructional materials supplied for the use of hazardous materials are clearly written 7 . and understandable