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FILE NAME: Asbestos Information Association (AIA) DATE: 0000 DOC#: AIA011 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: AIA History with Membership List TH E ASBESTO S INFORM ATION ASSOC1ATION/NORTH AM ERICA In recent years, new findings relating prolonged inhalation of asbestos fibers to various occupational health hazards have created understandable public and governmental concern. This concern, nurtured, by lack of information on the true nature and extent of these hazards, has at times created an emotional and irrational attitude toward asbestos in all its forms and applications. Members of most producer and user companies, which have for some time implemented worker-protection procedures, individually attempted to provide facts to the press, govern ment and public about the nature and extent of asbestos health problems and efforts to correct them. However, the industry lacked a single, constantly available source able to provide authoritative information on asbestos health in the United States and Canada. This situation was changed with the formation of the ASBESTOS INFORM ATION ASSO CIATIO N /N O RTH A M ER IC A (A IA /N A ) in December 1970. Its objectives are: 1. To provide industry-wide information cn asbestos and health, and on industry efforts to eliminate existing hazards: 2. To cooperate with governmental agencies in developing and implementing industry wide standards for worker protection and for the control of asbestos dust emissions into the community air; - 3. To exchange information on methods and techniques of asbestos dust control; 4. To correct misleading and uninformed reportage on asbestos-health problems; . 5. To publicize the unique benefits and importance of asbestos in protecting human life and property. The AIA /N A is governed by a Board of Directors comprised of representatives from all member companies. Day-to-day activities are conducted by an Executive Committee, which consults v.'ith member company industrial hygienists and environmental control experts, legal counsd and medical consultants whenever necessary. The chief staff officer is the Eecutive Secreto' y, jw tome, who funenons from AIA/NA headquarters, 22 East 40th Street, New York, New York I001R. In its first two years c i existence, the AIA lias--among its many activities--conducted a full day seminar on asbestos health for industry officials; nominated industry environmental control sptcuili: ts to t on gow;.-mn.;ntj| advisory committees examining (1) occupational hazards of asbestos, mu! >'2; urnb.c 't .!' emissions; testified at both Federal Environmental Protection Agency nd Department os Labor hearings on asbestos; sponsored technical research mio dm ii'n `hi'ity of tf'*>roeihod current!, lii'ino u^d to measure asbestos concen- m.tions m the iv o ^ p h r r provider! *'*Aers for semoers on occupational health, and devel oped i.".fci`; v t . o m.1 p i i . - ..ns i 'j mc ir.oust:y M'iy uwdre or alt new developments, whether med'cal, nov-. riv-cntal or technical, concerning asbestos-health. The A IA /N A , since the otomulgation of the OSHA occupational health standards on asbestos in mid-1972, has devoted much of its efforts to assisting the member companies vi I'Clt ~* V 11 < ip i.ito iii t,11.' MdL.juy wuii tiijii cutop'iJitee piogtains./-i o-booxlet O onA compli- J , . * ^ -I " n :r. ~c -,i. . .- n .i y w. V y i v , t f . v * s - . i * ' . y / U l O j l i w ^ r t i l t W i l IL. p i b M . IC U i C l icsedicneis, reueiai uovenimerit oniciiiis ar,u agencies >ucn as me Fooa ana Drug Aaminis- Vw MAY 1 4. m - - It has attended and participated in local, regional and international conferences on asbes* tos-health, and also maintains a close working relationship with other asbestos industry groups, including the Asbestos Textile Institute, Asbestos Cement Products Association, Friction Materials Standards Institute, the British Asbestos Information Committee id Asbestosis Research Council, and similar groups in France, the Benelux countries, and Scandinavia. (See Appendix A for membership list.) APPENDIX A C AIA/NA MEMBERSHIP LIST . Amatex Corp. Atlas Asbestos Company Cassiar Asbestos Corp., Ltd. Cement Asbestos Products Company (CAPCO) Certain-teed Products Corp. Congoleum Industries, Inc. The Fiintkote Company G A F Corp. Jim Waiter Corp. Johns Manville Corp. Kentile Floors, Inc. . National Association of Filter Material Manufacturers National Gypsum Company Nicol et Industries, Inc. North American Asbestos Corp. H. K. Porter Company, Thermoid Div. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc. Supradur Manufacturing Corp. Union Carbide Corp., Mining and Metals Division Uvalde Rock Asphalt Company u sa