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FILE NAME Painters and Allied Trades PAINT DATE 1974 Oct DOC PAINT034 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Article from Painters and Allied Trades Journal _ CIRCULATING Painters MATERIA 2 && 2 Allied Trades OCTOBER 1974 Journal CORNELL UIT ; | 14850| NY UNIVERSITY DEFENDANT'S LEGALfi LEGALfi LEGALfi EXHIBIT LEGALfi STATE STATE ALL ALL ee ALL ce ne dime poee 6 THE OCTOBER The General years 23rd Conventio ; was the site of of the kick of _ of the Brotherhood's most impor " and ambitious programs of tir. coming safety About IBPAT delega : heard General President S. Frant - Raftery declare that this will be decade of job safety J. Delegates _ heard Dr. Irving Selikoff then tion's leading authority on enviro mental medicine discuss the problems faced by Brotherhood members and describe details IBPAT's health and safety progra progra Some 400 delegates also receiv physical examinations and rays the Convention hotel and Brotherhood's new mobile testint van which was fully staffed medical professionals and parked front of the convention hotel General President Raftery the assembled delegates that the mo ih bile testing van represented start of what is going to belit ' most thorough occupational safe and health program ever undertak any international union ..73) byThisis the launching of the firs phase oof f a three program which will tell us what we need to know about our members health abou about the potential new dangers lurkin the constant introduction Prest new materials and coatings crafts use every day General Prest dent Raftery said With us safety is not a one deal he said General Presiden Raftery also said that IBPAT effort on behalf of job safety go back the hard years the Brotherhood Occupation worked on passing the Safety and Health Act We finally got it passed in December of 1979 and it went into effect in 1971 Depa : oyer 4 crative crative - The Occupational Health Safety Administration is the inderta . ae of the Ith 2apOmee ingers ductions ; ; eral Preside AT o other C cupational . Health and Safety contracted with the Mt. Sinai of Medicine to operate the received its test run during convention convention and will now start on Ot study of IBPAT members in 20 locations throughout the About 800 members are to ested during this clinical survey the first phase of the three- safety program In addition to long clinical survey there be mortality study and an in- hygiene survey The member will be alerted to any condition which he should years experience in their particular to the attention of his bring craft The year time period is year according to Dr. Irving doctor The team of physicians manning the mo- important because a primary goal of the program is to detect exposure to Selikoff Director of Environ- Medicine at the Mount Sinai bile van will release information only with the written permission of carciogenic substances which have been . of Medicine in New York the member known to cause cancer in in- _ speaker at the convention dividuals over long periods of time the help of slides Dr. Seli- For the purposes of evaluating the work surroundings of Brotherhood Contact with vinyl chloride for in- stance has been known xplained to delegates the po- members particular attention will to show : health hazards faced by all be paid to those with 15 signs of cancer after 30 years ex- of the Brotherhood Dr. or more tested for exposure to titan- Mt. The NIOSH contract with Sinai calls for a evaluation of the - . asbestos lead silica wood neral and polyvinyl chloride program after the first year .. In addition to Dr. Selikoff dele- President Raftery pre .. gates heard remarks of Dr. Justin Selikoff with keys to the are possible on the mo- constitute a thorough heatlh , covering every phase of dividual's health record Re- the tests will be passed back Americari the _ Stein president of Cancer Society who said that IBPAT has been most helpful in establishing the Society's Environmental Cancer Research Project . Dr. Stein the first cancer society president ever to address a major union said that the Society was happy to make available its statisti- ~ - cal services and the services of its ; volunteers to IBPAT THE JOURNAL 7 term Pineptms