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FILE NAME Manville JMA DATE 1974 Apr 30 DOC JMA387 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Memo - Warning Label - ASTM 34 4426A APRIL 30 1974 ASTM 34 COMMITTEE CORRESPONDENCE Dr. A. A. Winer Department of Energy Mines and Resources of Canada Mineral Processing Division 40 Lydia Street Ottawa Ontario Canada LABEL FOR ASBESTOS Attached in accordance Committee's November 19 offer is the subject material with the Warning Label a draft of a label for From the few criteria documents and related subject matter recently prepared by NIOSH or OSHA for other materials it appears that labeling which follows the principles in the current MCA labeling guide is ac- ceptable Accordingly the attached label is based on help principles thesethese principles principles Please Please let can be of any further help help me know if this committer committer Sincerely Mature M. Chairman B. Lore Warning Labels Du Pont Co. Wilmington DE Legal Dept. 302-774-7075 MBL Attachment . CC T. R. Aalto D. P. Bridge J. W. Hammond H. H. McIntyre S. Molinas R. R. D. G. W. K. E. R. Murry Neill Rhoads Sido F. D. Sparre R. M. Stansel N. Steere R. G. Troup M. M. Williams ASBESTOS | WARNING HARMFUL IF INHALEMD AY CAUSE > - DELAYED LUNG INJURY ASBESTOSIS LUNG CANCER Do not breathe dust meee hit pos hit poss 4 al Use only with adequate exhaust ventilation or approved breathing ites protection device Remove only dust and fibers from by vacuum cleaning clothing Clean work cleaning areas only by vacuum or wet cleaning methods _ e > ' 4/30/74 Present Present Label 114 RULES AND REGULATIONS Legend stos 2 .----e ee weeeee " Hazard ww " or ald Breathing Dust r Assigned Protective Equipment Not Remain In Arca I'nless Your Work Rc- quires It eathing Asbestos Dust May Be Hazardous To ! | ' Gothic ** Gothic point Gothic paragraph which indicates the em- ployee's own exposure to asbestos fibers 3 Employee notification Any em ployee found to have been exposed any time to airborne concentrations of asbes- tos fibers in excess of the limits prescribed in paragraphi b of this section shall be notified in writing of the expo- sure as soon as practicable but not later than 5 days of the finding The employce shall also be timely notified of the cor- rective action being taken j Medical examinations Gen- eral The employer shall provide or make to the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health the Director of NIOSH to authorized physt- cians and medical com ultants of either of them and upon the request of an employee or former employce to his physician Any physician who conducts a medical examination required by this paragraph shall furnish to the employer of the examined employee all the information specifically required by this paragraph and any other medical information related to occupational ex- posure to asbestos fibers Your Health available at his cost medical examina- 1910.91 Ventilation acing between lines shall shall be at least tions relative to exposure to asbestos re- a Abrasive blasting Defini- qual to the height of the upper of any quired by this paragraph tions applicable to this paragraph o lines 2 Preplacement The employer shall Abrasive A solid substance used in an 2 Caution labels Labeling Cau- provide or make available to each of his abrasive blasting operation on labels shall be affixed to all raw employees within 30 calendar days fol- ii Abrasive respirator A terials mixtures scrap waste debris lowing his first employment in all to irborne con- continuous flow line respirator conthe wearer's d other products containing asbestos their contamers except that occupation exposed centrations of asbestos fibers a compre- structed so that it will cover him sers or to asbestos fibers hensive medical examination which shall head neck and shoulders to protect label is required where from rebounding abrasive -ve been modified by a bonding agent include as a minimum a chest roent- ii Blast cleaning barrel A complete ting binder or other material so that genogram posterior 14 x 17 which rotates on an axis or iring any reasonably foresceable use inches a history to elicit symptomdisease and enclosure which has an internal moving tread to vari- ndling storage disposal disposal processing or atology of respiratory function tests to include tumble the parts in order to expose ansportation no airborne concentraasbestos fibers excess of the pulmonary forced vital capacity FVC and forced ous surfaces of the parts to the action of automatic blast spray ons of be posure limits prescrifed prescrifed in paragraph expiratory volume at 1 second FEV ) Annual examinations On or be- an iv Blast cleaning room A complete which blasting operations 1 of this section will released 3 fore January 31 1973 and at least an- enclosure in ii Label specifications The caution thereafter every employer shall are performed and where the operator bels required by ^ eivisit of this nually make available comprehen- works inside of the room to operate the abparagraph shall provide or examinations to each of his blasting nozzle and direct the flow of the f sufficient size an contrast as to be sive medical ex- abrasive material adily visible and legale legale The label shall employees engaged in occupations of as- v Blasting cabinet An enclosure posed to airborne concentrations anu Whe bestos fibers Such annual examination where the operator stands outside CAUTION shall include as a minimum a chest operates the blasting nozzle through an Contains Asbestos Fibers roentgenogram posterior 14 opening or openings in the enclosure Avold Creating Dust 17 inches a history to elicit symptom- vi Clean air Air of such purity that Breathing Asbestos Dust May Cause atology of respiratory disease and it will not cause harm or discomtor 'an Serious Bodly Harm _ pulmonary function tests to include individual if it is inhaled for extended Housekeeping Cleaning All forced vital capacity FVC and forced periods of time h Housekeeping volume at second FEV ) vii Dust collector A device or com- sternal surfaces in any place of employ shall be maintained free of accu- expiratory 4 Termination of employment The make avail- bination of devices for from the air handled separating dust by an exhaust jent mulations of asbestes fibers if with their employer shall provide or itspersion there would be an excessive able within 30 calendar days before or after the termination of employment of ventilation system viii Exhaust ventilation system A concentration waste Waste disposal Asbestos any employee engaged in an occupation concentrations of system for removing contaminated air from a space comprising two or more 2 rap debris bags containers equip- exposed to airborne medical of the following elements a enciosure ment and contaminated cloth- asbestos fibers a compreliensive include as a hood b duct work c dust collect- 11g consigned for disposal which may foreseeable examination mummum a which shall chest roentgenogram pos- history or ing equipment d discharge stack exhauster and 2 produce in any reasonably handling storage processing dis- anterior 14 17 inches a Particulate respirator An use to elicit symptomatology of respiratory ix concen- posal or transportation airborne concen- disease and pulmonary function tests air purifying respirator commonly re- trations of asbestos fibers in excess of the prescribed in paragraph to include forced vital capacity FVC volume at 1 second ferred to as a dust or a fuine respirator which removes inest of the dus 'or jume xposure limits b of this section shall be collected and and forced expiratory from the air passing through the device disposed of in sealed impermeable bass FEV No medical x Respirable dust Airborne dust in or other closed impermeable containers 5 Recent examinations sizes capable of passing through the up- rec- examination is required of any om- to reach the 1 Recordkeeping Exposure ployee if adequate records show that per respiratory system ords Every employer shall mamtain rec- the employee has been examined in ac- lower lung passareS ords of any personal or environmental within the xi Rotary blast cleaning table An monitoring required by this section Rec- cordance with this paragraph enclosure where the pieces to be cleaned ords shall be maintamed for a period of past year period are positioned on rotating table and are and shall be made avail- G Medical records Mainte- automatically through a series of at least 3 years Secre- nance Exaployers of employees examined passed able upon request to the Assistant tary of Labor for Occupational Safety pursuant to this paragraph shall cause maintained complete and accurate blast sprays x1 Abrasive blasting The forcible surface and Health the Director of the National Occupational Safety and to be records of all such medical examinabe retained by application of an abrasive to a by pneumatic pressure hydraulic pres- Justitute for Health and to authorized representa- tions Records shall sure or centrifugal force tives of either employers for at least 20 years 2 Dust hazards from abrasive blast- access Every employee ii Access The contents of the rec- D Abrasives and the surface 2 Employee shall have reason- ords of the medical examinations ing the materials blasted are and former employce able access to any record required to be required by this paragraph shall be made available for inspection and copying coatings on shattered and pulverized during blasting maintained by subparagraph 1 of this FEDERAL REGISTER VOL 37 NO WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 16 1972