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Turner k ycwall Limited Board Meeting * 25th January. 10B> Asboetot and Health - Progress Report . Press Relations and Advertising / # The "Times" Survey of Asbestos and tha "Asbestos and Boalth" advertisements for architectural, building, municipal and educational Journals lava duly appeared. In viaw of tha limited number of customers for tho industry in the shipbuilding field the A.I.C. have decided to roly on personal contact rather than advertising to communicate with shipbuilders and ships' designers. On the other band an advertising campaign sirasslng the positive merits of asbestos, particularly for lira protection, is being considered. A TV treatment on these lines has been produced for consideration by the and the Central Office of Information propose toproduce a short film, for over seas consumption, with A.I.C. guidance- In addition BUI U - Knovrlton International have beanaetedtoproducoideasfor an A.I. C. film on the merits ofasbostos. Further misleading articles lamedlcal,. technical aad locnl journals hava bean ' challenged by appropriate letters to the editors. : Literature ....... .......... . The general pamphlet - "Ashostes-Safoty and Control'' has been exhaustively studied by A.LC. members and is now being printed. It will be 'used primarily as background information for the industry's own staff, and will be accompanied by a document entitled "Putting the Case for Asbestos". Bo T. fc N. companies hare yet published pamphlets tailored to their own requirements on the Health problem. The British Friction Materials Cowell are to publish a document dealing with tha problems of tha motor industry; this will cover tho requirements of Ferodo Ltd. and K-B Ltd. Tho Docks The A.R.C. has sent its comments on the preliminary draft of the Docks Regulation* to K.M. Factory Inspectorate. It haa requested that (a) the new regulations should make it clear that they refer to asbestos in loose fibrous form and are not intended to refer to asbestos products in general and Cb] asbestos should not be included in the list of Dangerous Goods. Tha A.R.C. is at present considering a droit Cede, of Practice which would be im plemented in the Docks pending new regulations. Dccosualisstion and tho labour problems stemming from its Introduction seem temporarily to have diverted attention from asbestos. continued.. Ir : t : *) c I c t C |M< 37 7 -1- . Architecture and Building Tlia A.l.C. document rebutting Urn "Loads memorandum" circulated to University building officers has achieved its uiijoet in some quarters, o.g. at Um University of Sussex, but not at others, o.g. the University of Colchester. Disturb ingly, references to the "Leeds memorandum" appear sporadi cally in places, like the Kewcastlo Regional Hospital Board and the Borough Council of Kensington and Chelsea, quite outside the orbit of the Universities. Snergetie action is taken when ever the A. I. C. is made aware of this happening to place its rebuttal dooument in the right bands. The Department of Education and Sciatica have now written to the few education authority architects known to have misunder stood their circular on the use of asbestos in laboratories and workshops, but In doing so have referred than to H.M. Factory Inspectorate for guidance on the health risk associated with the use of ssbestos products for building. Customers Dr. Gate and l met the psrsonnelj enginsertng and medical representative* of L.C.L on bohalf ci ths asbestos industry, and established that the l.C.L policy lr to specify alternatives to asbestos for Insulation purposes whenever possible, bat that this policy deas not officially extend to the use of asbestos pro- duets for building applications. There is seme evidence however that there is some discrimination against asbestos products for . building si lower levels In tha regions. 8.P. Chemicals Cods/ of Practice is on simitar lines to tha A.R.C. Code, but usn*cestarUysevere on. asbestos cloth lagging.' We have not yet succeeded la having a sight of ths CEGB, Shell Chemicals or ; Metal Box Codaa. The Albright and Wilson medical 'officer' baa suggested, inthe Company's house magazine, that any employes*: who work with asbestos should fly* up smoking. Parliamentary The A.1.C, meeting with Members of Parliament at the House of Commons has been postponed, due to tha Ulaesa of Alderman Jack McCann, C.B.E., M.P., until 30th January. T.U.C- Tfae Report of the Annual Meeting of the T.U.C. contained 4 speeches by Union leaders, all of them disturbing. We ahull consider the possibility of an A.l.C. meeting with Union leaders and the T.U.C. medical advissO, Dr. Murray, in tha near future. I !| ' . r \. . . . . o * .1 ti r .* - . \ . : t / cootlautd. ) II r jai C C t * z% 7 -J. V.'orld Health Organisation . - , /; The A.l. C. robuttal paper on the dangers of using asbestos- . cement pipes (or water supplies is bcine hold in reserve, since investigations in Coneva by llUlA Knowlton revealed that this Is not a subject (or investigation by the W.H.O. there. In Copenhagen, bowevor, (tho European H.Q. of the W.H.O.) Dr. Karvonsa.haad of tho Department of Occupational Diseases, has delivered a paper on the general implications of asbsstos as - a health hatxrd. as the rosult of enquiries from onelarg. Danish shipyard, which has since banned asbestos products completely. Sinee summaries of Dr. Karvonen's speech reveal. it to be misleading, andUl-informodDr.S. Holmes, T.B.A.?* Industrial Hygienist and Secretary of the A.R. C,, is visiting Copenhagen in January. ffiU U Knowlton are-arranging a further meeting with the World H.Q. of th* W.H.O. in Genava during January to ascertain the impact there of Dr. Karvonan's views. British Occupational Hygiene Society The report of tho British Occupetional Hygiene Society on whieh it is thought the Ministry of Labour will largely roly as a guide to what they should accept under the proposed new Regulations, la to be published soon. Dr. J. F. Knox and Dr. S. Holmes of T.B.A. were members of the Committee which prepared this report. Tho recommendations are very strict by international standards being based mainly on the best conditions in the T.B.A. Rochdale factory. The A.R.C. has undertaken, at the request of the A.I.C., to engage in a formal programme ot investigation of airborne asbestos duet in buildings comprising asbestos materials. T.A.C. Co. Ltd. is also doing laboratory work in this field and to determine whether asbestos-cement pressure pipes release asbestos fibres into water supplies. Very highly skilled electron microscopy is also being dene by T.B.A. laboratories to try to determine the asbestos content in the general urban . atmosphere. A.I.C. Expenses _ The expenses of tho A.I.C. for September, October and November were as follows: Hill <c Knowlton staff time charges 2,3S9 11 10 Hill 4c Knowlton out-of-pocket expense* 562 1 3 Taylor U Wishart (A.I.C. Advertisement*) 1,527 10 0 TOTAL Tk* T. Ik K* share ol these expenses amounted to 1,462 3 1 22,473 3 3 Jobs Weddell V" ' It-- U(b) 46 l c c V itkaiUt Mi llultll - rnurtti h| Qwrtar amJai }lit March 1968 It JtatttWrjJljgiUUan* Mr. J. M. Atklnean and Or. 3. Halaia tf T.B.A. aftea- dad (I ttia Ministry af Labour an 6th April ta dloeuaa tha industry's ceewoats (expressed in tha Aabaataala haeearch Council's latter af 7th July 1967) on tha preliminary draft Regulations, Useful progress wa node. Tha Mlniatrr la aecaptlng several aC tha naaC iapartanc submissions af tha A.R.C* It Lttaratura Tha Asbestos Information Conmltten panphlr' 'A.hcatng - Safety and Control* end tha canfldantlat imiI far asbestos Industry Sales. Rapraaantatlvaa 'PuttAnd tha >Caaa far, Aabaataa* have baan published and circulated ta all caapaaiaa In tha Oraup* Publication la availed dally af a rapart 'Mygieae Standarde far Chryaatlla Aabaataa Duct' prepared by a Sub.Coaaalttee af tha British Occupatlenal Hfflaaa Saelaty, and baa ad largely an data accunulatad arar tha yaara In T.B.A's Rochdale Pactary. Thta la ta ba uaad at a guide by the Klniatry af Labour in cDanes- tlon vlth tha nav Regulations* 3* Sosskors Panel Tha A.I.Ct la building up a panal at apaakara an aabaataa whe util ba given proper training and briefing an health nettsrs. A praaantatlan was auceaaafully . given ta an audlanaa of Yarfcahlre plant eoglneara In * ' Leede by an A.X.C* panel on l)th March* 8. Praaa Palationa and Idvartlalna Tha Central Office of Information flln on aoboatoo la aapootad Co bo diatrlbutod la May* Or. A.P.L. Daoaen vaa oppolntod by tha A.X.C. aa a ratalnad nadlcal Journali*t on an oaporinontal baals for three nonthe vlth affaot fron lac March 1968, at a faa af Ctjt Cor tho quarter plua a lineage of par hundred vordo publlihod. An unfortunate Aaerlcan report published here on the pollution of the elr by aebeetoe from cars' braking vat countered In several provincial navepapara by a latter fron tha Secretary of tha A.X.C. Kora praaa publicity eon ba aapootad on nobaatao and hoalth during and after a Cenferanoe on tha aubjact which la being bald In Dresden In the weak af 22nd April. Contd t C c c c 1 r\ r u T - i 47 3. ij#j|<u -.thv.UiiAM ilHktrt *r >1111 Pifgainn Cs huitdl* ny < Mart aC aabaataa aaaapc tu muiiwn. Tha Aabaataa ftkn la|Hrt>rt Ctaaltm amt: a raprBnUUv f tk t.I.C. ar* MalUc Mm U iIIhmi a proposal that , UtDttMt kt atpnuhtt afraah by th* X.I.r.C. dock anptayars and shipowner* regarding a programs of sentrailad lrlal tMpaaaau r aabaataa fibre through Lanaian a Ssuthanpton, Dull and Liverpool ar> hand Line asbestos Inprwaa-packad bag* wrapped and atrappad aa pallets. Pawcaatla, Olaagov, Manehaatar and iVMumtk ara handling aabaataa' packed In Inpaneeable baga with* aut pailata* lasliar paftat with lha aaaaptlan af Lai th and arangeusuth. will hand la aabaataa In lapamaabla baft, though aaaatlaaa at aaarbltant rataa. Craaldallta la bain* lapartad ml; in laparamabla ba*a, wrapped anut atrappad an pailata* Agreenant haa baan raachad between tha Aabaataala Naaaarch Council and tha A.P.Z.C. an a draft Cada af Prattles far handling aabaataa In tha daaka. Printing alii praaaad* but publlcatlan La ta ba dafarrad pandlng tha raault af tha A.Z.C.-A.f.Z.C. aaatlng on tha London altuatlon. C. ArcMtaetora and Bulldln* * Phan tha Brltlah Oaaupatlanal Ryglana Society Popart haa baan publlahad It ahould ba paaalbla ta ralata tha findInga af tha A.R.C. Paaaarch Camel t tea, aba ara apanaarlng duat counta af occupied buildings, cenatruatlon altos and* in dua sours#, tha urban atnoaphara, ta tha 8.O.H.S. Standarda* Zf tha raaulta an tha two farnor ara favanrahla, thay will ba ~r iml catad to arohltaata by dlrsct nail. Rsprasantetlvaa af tha aabaataa Induatry who alt on Camltttat af tha British Standarda Institution bavo boon oakad ta roaiat tha Incorporation In British Standarda of pronlnaac warnings on tha dangara af , Inhaling aabaataa dua*. t. Cuatonara A qusatioiutaira haa baan alreulatad ta tha aalaa force* af nanbsr mapulaa of tha A.Z.C. with a blow ta Idantlfylng tha kay hoaltH * policy Maker* in aaeh of tha natlonallsod undartaklnga and of 20k loading Industrial cowpanloa. When tha Hat la available tha A.Z.C. will consider colling a conference. prob ably in London in tha Autuain. to ba addraaaad by aeparta of tho eallhro of Sr. J. C. Qilaon (Hedteal Paaaarch Council) on tho following subjects! (a) Vhy Aebeetasf, (b) Tha haalth risk In perapectlva. (a) Control of tha risk, and (d) Znduatrlal hyglana advisory earvlcee. Thla would fallow th* publlcatlan of th* statutory draft of tho n*w Aabaataa Regulation*. e Peril meantarv 18 Maabars af Parllanant attended a no* ting at tha House af Cdemons on 30th January at which an A.Z.C. Contd 48 HMt *fila&no4 tb tftkii tmtuatry*! *chttvMla M ptlley wk ktiM m4 hlih and r4 Hpf'm ^itadMi, The |Mfil received e ravaurakla recepUm mimI imi* tpr4 by the r*pattkU m4 ( IK* H.f'i preeent* y, 1SU_5S21SA ' tt appaara that cm iatardapartnantal Mtllnfa hava . naw takan plaaa aa aabaataa ana haalth, Ua Hlntatriaa rapraaantad bain* latair, Haalth, Haualo* ana Local Oavaranant and Baard af Trada. Wa Hava kttratr avt- danaa that Uia atvtl aarvanta praaanl aapraaaad halanead vtava, though va mill undarataod that tha Taetary Inapaatarata ara prapaatag ta elraulata a Hat af aubatltutaa Tar aabaataa. Tha MlAt a try af HawtUif and Lanai Oauamnant airculatad varlaua badtaa and caapanlaa In tha aabaataa Induatry an )th January rapardlnd tha Dlapaaal af Aabaataa Waata. haproaanta- c .tlvaa mt tha A.L.C., A.R.C. and tha Aabaataa Aaaaatnttan will In dna taunt ta Invltad ta a aaatlnc at tha Klnlatry ta dlaeuaa tha aantanta af a duaatlannalra and tha aampla aC tha Induatry ta that It ahaulA bn aant. c 10, World Haalth Ovaantaattan Dr. Halnaa, Soaracary af tha A.h.C. vlattad Capanhapaa at tha baplnnlnp of January and nat Dr. Aact Srut. Diraatar af tha Oanlah Drpartuant af Oaaupattaaal Haalth. and Mr. Maoann Padartan af tha Elalnora Shipyard, vha had alreulattd a uanarandua dattflnc to aabaataa ta tha datamation af Oanlah SHipbulldara. Mr. Padaraan hat aubtaquantiy alrculatad an addondun ta hi a original rap'ort, raeoanaadlac (a) altarnatlvoa ta'aabaataa. vhara paoaibla, far Inaulatlan, and (b) n framing aya tan far aabaataa - baaad bulkhaada vhlflh aliminataa tha naaaaalty far aarowiac and drilling* Tha A.Z.e. haro writtan ta tha Baard af Trada droving tbalr attsatlan ta tha dtat|t vhich nay ba oauaad ta tha Srltlah aabaataa Induatry*a asparta by Irraapanalbla atatananta from affleiala af tha Varld Haalth OrganlaaCle XI. A.I.C.Bcnanaaa . Tlia eepeneee of bit* AtZtC* for Deeeober 1967 end Jimurf end February 1964 vara u foilowe i* . 4 t* d Mill 4 Knevlten eteff 11m Ur|t 3,282. 1. 8 Rill 4 Kaewlteo. ut-Qfapekl expeeeee 909* 8tO T,8nAnC*,L.td epeelel ezpana 60, O, 0 3agi.iQd < i The T.4 ViLtd* ehero of thee# expeoaeo amounted to 82,1$8, 9* *4. JOHN 9400214#. 4