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H&SC-98 CHEMICAL MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION Health and Safety Committee Minutes of Meeting CMA M Street Conference Room 2501 M Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20037 Wednesday July 21, 1993 9:30 a.m, - 3:00 p.m. Members Present R. Robert Briggs Eugene C. CapaIdi *Marvin A. Friedman William R. Hookey David M. Kiser Constance A. Kolajtowicz Thomas E. Liles Vincent J. Marchesani Jorge C. Olguin Larry W. Rampy Stephen J. Robinson Janos Schulze John P. Sepesi David D. Sigman Rhone-Poulenc, Incorporated ARCO Chemical Company Cytec Industries Chevron Chemical Company Eastman Chemical Company Amoco Chemical Company Union Carbide Corporation HIMONT, Incorporated DuPont Dow Chemical Company Monsanto Company Ciba-Geigy Corporation Shell Oil Company Exxon Chemical Company Members Absent Peter L. Lubs The Lubrizol Corporation CMA Staff *Keith Belton Claudette Cofta *Susan Conti Sarah Doelp *Dick Doyle Karen Johnson Kari Pike Arlene Sapsara Wendy Sherman Sandra Tirey ^Charles Walton *Eileen Winkelman Invited Guests *Ron Black *Jim Blum *Don Theissen Rohm & Haas Company Rhone-Poulenc 3M *Part-time CMA 061171 HSC Meeting Minutes July 21, 1993 Page 2 1. J. Olguin called the meeting to order at 9:30 a.m. and reviewed the purpose of the meeting. 2. The minutes of the June 16, 1993, meeting were approved as written. 3. J. Olguin requested that two items be added to the agenda - a budget request from the risk focus area and an administrative issue regarding the TUR Issues Team. The HSC approved the request. 4. S. Conti briefed the HSC on the antitrust procedures and Legal Department organizational structure, noting additional staff support to the HSC. 5. D. Doyle briefed the HSC on the Responsible Care activities that impact the HSC. He reviewed the series of recommendations on Responsible Care that the Board endorsed at its June 1993 meeting. He will provide the HSC with a list of Responsible Care groups, mission statements and deliverables. 6. G. Capaldi briefed the HSC on the committee management recommendations that resulted from the Steering Task Group. He reviewed the short- and long-term recommendations for the HSC. He noted that all budget items were designated as an "A" category except the OSHA Reform line item. The HSC approved the short-term recommendations. G. Capaldi noted the formation of a work group to address long-term recommendations. He also noted that the timing of the Planning Meeting has changed - it will be held in the Fall instead of the Spring. He also discussed the 1993/94 HSC goals, noting the three categories - strategic issues and priority setting, advocacy, and internal management. The HSC approved the Management Principles as a framework under which to operate but requested the development of measurable objectives to support each goal. The HSC suggested that the Management Principles and a listing of current litigation be added to the meeting book each quarter. Copies of all Task Group minutes will be provided as handouts at the HSC meetings. The STG will meet with the Environmental Management Committee planning task group in September to discuss inter-Committee coordination. There will be a joint reception and dinner for the two Committees on September 14, 1993. 7. Sponsors from the OSH Focus Area provided task group reports. Actions and items of interest included: o The MEDTREC training workbooks and video are complete and will be available in the early Fall. The training materials are directed toward poison control center specialists and emergency medical providers. CMA 061172 HSC Meeting Minutes July 21, 1993 Page 3 o Comments on ANSI Z365 - Cumulative Trauma Disorder are under development. Comments should be submitted to K. Pike by September 3. K. Pike will send a final draft to the HSC during the week of September 23. o The new OSHA recordkeeping guidelines may come out in late 1993 or early 1994. The Safety Programs Task Group is developing a white paper to influence guidelines. This could pose significant Responsible Care measurement issues for the Employee Health and Safety Code. o The Industrial Hygiene Issues Task Group is in the process of reviewing the roles of the chairmen and the members. It is working on corrections to the draft report on procedures to set occupational exposure limits by domestic and international standard setting. The group will request additional funds in August to complete this task. o The introductory video to the Employee Health and Safety Code will be available in August. o An OSHA Legislation Group meeting with Hill staff was very successful. The group believe proposed House and Senate legislation is fundamentally flawed and is trying to encourage an incentives approach to OSHA reform, o S. Robinson requested approval of the updated position papers on OSHA Reform legislation. The HSC approved the paper, with the suggestion that paper #7 also address the House bill's definition of significant risk for non-cancer endpoints, o K. Johnson (for P. Lubs) requested approval of the CMA nominees for the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Health (NACOSH). The HSC approved J. Henshaw/Monsanto and F. Toca/Hoechst Celanese and endorsed T. Evans. 8. Sponsors from the Product Stewardship Focus Area provided task group reports. Actions and items of interest included: o CMA's Cyclohexane panel will file a suit challenging the TSCA 4(a)(1)(B) Policy o There will be a forum at the American Chemical Society on July 28, 1993, to address EPA's concept paper "Pollution Prevention Strategy for Toxic Chemicals." Representatives from the Product Stewardship, TSCA and Pollution Prevention areas are participating and coordinating industry input, o CBI issues and Responsible Care will be on the August HSC agenda. o J. Blum/Rhone-Poulenc, from the CRTG, briefed the HSC on the proposed TSCA 8(e) environmental guidance, o D. Theissen/3M, chairman of the TUR Issues Team, discussed and requested approval of the TUR proposed policy, noting that it will go the the Board in September. The HSC approved the policy, with suggested charges. There were two abstentions, o J. Olguin requested that the TUR Issues Team be placed as a task group under the HSC. The HSC approved the request, o R. Black/Rohm and Haas briefed the HSC on the Environmental Management Systems proposed policy. The HSC approved the policy in concept, pending suggested changes. The HSC requested to see a draft of the policy that incorporates the suggested changes. CMA 061173 HSC Meeting Minutes July 21, 1993 Page 4 o The "Guideline for the Preparation of MSDSs, ANSI Z400.1 has been appealed. The ANSI Board of Standards Review will consider the appeal in October. 9. J. Olguin reported that the Indoor Air Quality Team recommended that the Team sunset. The Steering Task Group concurred with this recommendation. 10. Sponsors from the Risk Focus Area provided task group reports. Actions and items of interest included: o J. Sepesi discussed and requested approval of the position paper on the "Use of Probability Distributions to Characterize Exposures." The HSC approved the paper, o D. Sigman requested that the $10,000 that was budgeted to the Indoor Air Quality Team (the group was sunsetted) be redirected to convene a panel of experts to develop guidance for judging the utility and validity of comparative risk methods and processes. The Committee approved the request. 11. The meeting adjourned at 3:05 p.m. Minutes Subject to Approval Claudette M. Cofta Director Product Stewardship CMA 061174