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FILE NAME: Avondale (AVD) DATE: 1970 Dec 8 DOC#: AVD150 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Memo - Council Participation in Mt. Sina Environmental Health Services Studies - Asbestos Usage PLAINTIFF'S.E EXHIBIT j*g. ' SBCA15023 |5 u ______ _________________________ -- -----------' December 8, 1970 MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Hood Subject: Council Participation in M i. Sinai Environmental Health Services Studies - A sbestos U sage. ( A s is known by previous discussions and from reports, the Council is cooperating with and baa designated Harry Howard, Bethlehem Steel to be its representative in deliberations conducted by Dr. Selikoff and A ssociates, D ivision of Environmental Health Studies, Mount Sinai School of M edicine, City U niversity of New York in m atters concerning asbestosis and associated d iseases in shipyards. This memorandum i3 prepared following discussions with Dr. Duncan Holaday, Industrial Hygiene Engi neer on the staff of Dr. Seiikoif this date, with the purpose of sucienctly stating v/hat this involvm ent is about. Fox over twenty years Dr. Selikoff has interested him self in medichl problem s resulting from the use of asb estos. Having established to his satisfaction that asbestos can be dangerous to health and in the absence of _ a suitable substitute, health safeguards m ust be em ployee, in October of this year and ad hoc com m ittee came into being with the expressed pur pose of preparing a '`R ecom m ended P ra ctices Manual for A sb esto s Handl ing in Shipbuilding and Ship R epair". On this com m ittee are representatives from the producing industry (Johns-Manvilfee), the Navy, Bureau of Labor, Labor Unions, National Insulation Contractors A ssociation and our Council along with the Mount Sinai study group. The The Mount Sinai study group is funded by organized labor and asbestos producers {m ainly Johns-M anviHe). It is the hope of D r. Holladay, a retired public health 3ervi<.e officer and principal staff oiffneerron the project to com plete the draft of the m anual in late January. We w ill be given the opportunity to review its contents. Publication date is planned for Eebruary-M arch. This ia the end of thia project with the exception of possible follow-up for changS3 in the "state of the art". The m anual w ill not be concerned with incidence o d ise a se , case h isto ries of im proper procedures, etc. It w ill attem pt only to provide recom m endations for best usage in respect to hazards. It is being developed as a practical tool by practical authors. It is not being prepared under any ;% governm ental a g e n c ies, V*e w ill have the opportunity not only of review ing " the work but distributing it to interested parties as a public arw ce under \ ( (' z the grant3 to Mi- Sinai to private industry (sh ip yard s) at no cost- Mo public fanfare is programmed or desired in this undertaking by ths Mount Sinai group. lI I R. K. Msreneas I\I j III ftl \ I 4 l .* \