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395. MINUTES OF MEETING SAFETY AND FIRE PROTECTION COMMITTEE Versailles Motor Inn, Cleveland, Ohio May 1, 1970 PRESENT W. S. Wood, Chairman Sanford Schreiber, Vice Chairman R. H. Albisser C. H. Barboni G. E. Cain A. H. Christian A. L. Cobb G. L. Gorbell John Jorgensen F. 0. Kubias J. S. Queener E. C. Sommer S. F. Spence J. J. Walker F. G. Stephenson, Secretary Sun Oil Company Allied Chemical Corporation Merck & Co., Inc. CIBA Corporation Hercules Incorporated FMC Corporation Eastman Kodak Company Monsanto Company Rohm and Haas Company Mallinckrodt Chemical Works E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Esso Research & Engineering Company" American Cyanamid Company _ Union Carbide Corporation Manufacturing Chemists Association GUESTS D. L. Dowell J. E. Gillan G. A, Jamieson W. P. Paulsen R. T. Wickham M. E. Woodworth B. F. Goodrich Chemical Company Atlas Chemical Industries, Inc. Canadian Industries Limited Olin Corporation The Ansul Company National Fire Protection Association 1- Minutes of the January 26-27, 1970 meeting were approved as distributed. 2 Industrial Injury Reports (a) The committee reviewed the industrial injury report for 1969. The Secretary's editorial "Who Can They Turn To?", discussing the need for energetic support of safety programs at the management level, has been reproduced in the MCA General Bulletin. (b) The Secretary requested some relaxation of the custom of listing company corporate names only in the MCA report. It was agreed that be cause of the many and varying influences, the listing should be resolved at the MCA office. This means that, at the discretion of the Secretary, some companies may have more than one listing. CMA 012870 396. (c) Mr. S. Schreiber reported on a meeting with Mr. H. D. Doan re garding a-proposal for a program intended to revive interest in safety probation at the management level. Mr. pan has offered to sign letters to member companies draw ing attention to this need for determined action at the management level. Each letter will include the company's injury statistics for the previous year and will be divided into two basic groups -- an under 1,000 employee group and an over 1,000 employee group. A third letter will be directed to companies which do not par ticipate in the MCA reporting program. The letters will invite companies to send managerial and other representatives to a meeting to be held in September or October 1970. The committee unanimously endorsed the activity. Mr. Schreiber agreed to send drafts of the letters to the Secretary for circulation to the committee for review. 3. Accident Case Histories Volume III of'Case Histories of Accidents in the Chemical Industry"has now been published. A complimentary copy will be forwarded to each committee member. Additional copies are available for $3.50 each. 4. Publications (a) Chemical Safety Data Sheets .1 SD-39, Hydrochloric Acid -- being printed. 2. SD-25, Hydrofluoric Acid -- technical sections complete -- awaiting completion of medical sections. 3. SD-80, Chlorine -- being printed from the Chlorine Institute's Chlorine Manual. 4. SD-22, Methanol -- galley proof stage. 5. SD-40, Methyl Chloride -- galley proof stage. 6. SD-96, Nitrocellulose -- final draft. 7. SD-37, Styrene Monomer -- final draft. .8 SD-24, Perchloroethylene -- first draft received from PPG Industrie* 9. SD-75, Vinyl Acetate -- technical sections on hand. .10 In preparation: Ammonia Aqua (Olin) Phosphoric anhydride (Monsanto ) Ethylene dichloride (Dow) Acetaldehyde (Eastman Kodak) Ethyl acetate (Celanese) Phosphorus trichloride (FMC) Phosphorus elemental (Monsanto) Tolylene diisocyanate (Du Pont) Sodium metallic (Merck) Vinyl acetate (Union Carbide) CMA 012871