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FILE NAME Painters and Allied Trades PAINT DATE 1984 Aug DOC PAINT079 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Article from Painters and Allied Trades Journal Employees EeBi LEGALfi DEFENDANT'S LEGALfi LEGALfi EXHIBIT ATE UCC -case specificspecific ATE On the Cover . ; The Report of the Gen- Officers to the BPAT 25th General Convention Photo of Washington D.C. by Maxwell Mackenzie ; ; Co _. President Inside Cover From '- Inside Front Cover From General the General i ae OG es _ - = _|. 25th General Officers Report 5 Report of the General President * , 39 Report of the General Treasurer 79 Convention Resolutions . " Inside Back Cover The General Treasurer Reports DEVOTED TO THE TRADE INTERESTS =.) Sots | WILLIAM A. DUVAL ; COACH fiAUTOMOBILE 'AIRCRAFT e 2 Bs COVERING PAPERHPAAPEN RHG ANI GIN NGG "' = WALL COVERING 'DECORATIVE AND 7 LINOLEUM ARCHITECTURAL CARPET LINOLEUM ARCHITEUL GLAZING ' CARPEGLATS LINOLEUM SOFT SOFT ' SOFT ns fe a #4 .f we a .. 1750 New York Avenue N.W. - Washington D.C. 20006 ideioc 7. ROBERT J. PETERSDORF oa a . General Treasurer ee Ue 1750 New York Avenue N.W. Washington BRUSH MAKERS member other MOVEMENT GENERAL UNION IN or subordinate bodyor publishing programs souvenirs or other Oe Be Boe a \ : OO SE oe v _ s Ze >. - General Vice Presidents BERNARD SNIEGOWSKI 1st District' et documents of any description must not | designate Brotherhod designate them The Official Journal of ~ international Brotherhood of Painters and ,* Allied Trades Journal upon the . publication itself or their advertising Contract forms or stationery aS a PAINTERS : hie: Bay eae PAINTERS ALLIED . ; 1443 Westchester Boulevard o"" Westchester Ill 60153 aoe A. oT A. L. MONROE 2nd District District ; 7909 Bayberry Drive Alexandria Va 22306 ; 3rd JAMES WOLFORD District 100 Devon Lan~ v.02. Williamsville N.Y. 14221 |. JACKCOX 4th District 2212 DuPont Drive respiratory problems and 10 percent skindiseasesor disorders IBPAT The rising growing for Increased and concern danger the awareness and among concern modern members painttradeworker recognized byIBPAT OSH Act guaranteegsuarantees osf afe and healthful healthful as early as 1969 butlaws to supportimprovementsin Dr. Selikof's IBPAT workplaces and Selikoff's involvement Safety worker protectionwerelacking That'swhy IBPAT " to declare The Decade of Job Health and Safety bied for enactment of the Occupational Safety and 1974 at our 23rd General Convention Thepurpose Health Act OSHA which becamelawin 1970. IBPAT SERVE IBPAT'S MEMBERS BETTER Safety also established a joint labor management health and IBPATIBPAT Health and safety committeein 1970 to examine health and safe- - Programs iin the Decade of tyissues in the paint and allied trades industry The a of Health and Safety National Joint Safetyand Health Committee has met -: The beginning of the Decadeof : Health yearly ever sinceForemost among IBPAT's early Safety and the results from Dr. Selikoff's tributors was Dr. Irving J. Selikoff of the Mount Sinai IBPAT to ask the Department of Labor study DOLfor funds School of Medicine In 1974 Dr. Selikoff conducted the first in to develop health and safety training programs painters health depth study of since Dr. rank IBPAT's workers This was the beginning renowned Alice Hamilton'sHamilton'sreports of 1934 health : internationally IBPAT Project Graph oof fMembersTrained _ : 1979-1984 8 THE JOURNAL 1984 came The first IBPAT award in 1977. IBPAT competed with 27 universities and training institute's for funds and became the first union in history to win a DOL grant to develop training materials for and~ workers program So successful was IBPAT's program that OSHA established a New Directions Grant program in the next year offering other institutions the opportunity to for their memberships what IBPAT had done for Direc- ours IBPAT was one of the first to receive New lion Grant funds too oo . . From 1978 to 1984 successive awards followed 200,000 in 1979 250,000 in 1980 275,000 in 1981 250,000 in 1982 320,000 in 1983 and 400,000 in 1984. In 1983 IBPAT became the first . Computer Assisted Health and SafetyEfforts to _ IBPAT has developed 50 computer programs to assist members assess risk or hazard select appropriate hazard control measures or store health ' and safety reports for use at later dates Most promin- - among the programs are the HAZARD INDEX and the RESPIRATORY SELECTION programs _ into The HAZARD INDEX allows a worketro enter prod- uct information a computer and receive back work rate ventilation rate and respiratory protection allowable combinations that may be used to keep exposures within limits The RESPIRATOR SELECTION program enables workers to select appropriate re- spirators for any jobs involving solvent containing - coatings _ BPAT videotape modules and the page OSH Health and Safety Education training and computer These two programs operate with in- . teractive video materials and can be used by appren- . ticeship training programs to teach the most critical aspects of health protection in the paint trades iensttihmeatwionrgkapnldacceontrolling the solvent concentrations paint fundsdrying Massachusetts for licensing paint and : employed on jobs where exposures are greaterthan safe levels To date threestates have triedto develop . s+ legislation or regulation requiring painter certification and _ OSH training succeeded IBPAT re- helped training materials establish quirements s . industrythe . Problem :s . Ihealth and safety activi always will not capita __. can ot cannot meet the _. alone already up Per capita other vciatnalnoacttmiveietitesthSeinneceedgsowoitdhohuetalsthohrtachnandgisnafgety programs benefit the entire should share the costs entire indus A The Ongoing ProblemFindiFngs indings Since Selikoff try value Since Dr. Selikoff'sfindings in1975 1975 a disease The pasthas taught us the safety Consequently if health of health . called Painter's Syndrome has been identified ~ have the and safety programs -Painter'sPainter's Syndromeis nervous system damage often found proper fundingtheywill return dividends the union to our members to overexposure among painters andsuspected of resulting from overexposure :: paint and allied contractors trade industry That is and to of the goal the at ~ Hopkins tosolvents Harvard and Johns Universities have both worked closely THEN . AND NOW s with General President IBPAT to discover the extentto which Painter'sSyn- 7 Finallywe are certain that Serato pursue drome occurs among IBPAT members will continue to vigorously dt pursue our fight for Preliminary members nas data suggest it may bebequite widespread widespread - familiehsealth an7d safety for all of our and btheeitter tt hehiei Work rewere Resultsof IBPAT's inthe families a3 Decadeof SiresSETA Health and Safety a necessary rate > IBPAT's entry into the health and safety aarenra ena was necsary to protectour membersAnd oncein the fraynothing stoppedIBPAT from conducting program - a_nde5i0ght videotapes a page training book computer programshave been Health and Safety training developed for f . The materials are highly agement government and training No otherworkerbased trained so many workers program inin suchshort time190,000190,000 hours of trainingdeliveredto 25,00025,000 members in six we promised Safeand Secure Tomorrows years and 6,000 hours oftechnicalassistance pro- vided for for 350,000 350,000 members others Tomorrows | .. dayandwe established ourHealth and Safety FutureProgramsand Prospects What the future holds for IBPAT's healthhealth and safety a efforts depends on what IBPATmembers want and 7 the funds funds available forthe programs However con three ar prioritiesare known 3 a the 1Neurotoxic effectsamongpainters one are of number one concern Neurotoxic effects are thefirst 10 THE JOURNAL JOURNAL VAUGUST 198 .