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FILE NAME: Asbestos Sacks and Bags (ASB) DATE: 1965 Aug 24 DOC#: ASB021 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Internal Turner & Newall Memo RE Press Statement Regarding Handling of Asbestos with Revised Statement :-1 30--MAR--00 1 2 : 2 4 INTERWATIONALBUSINESSUHT r f mTm n ^ c_y u on no u u u 1L 0 0 0 9 44 161 247 6313 P.01 / . FROM Turner a N ewall Manchester MR R M. HAiEMAN T TO M R A. D, f t JOME Ltd. Copy to ADNJ -fk* M ember ot the C hilrm an1 / Comm 24th August. IOCS K.l' lis t i n g gf Asbeato^xTth^ n^ TM US o? nw it !ttp a re d a docum*"anHyfor use in c*a*se oKf oawn imP. approach by the proas. SubseouM tlv w e havo statem ent and I now aaitttaacc?h? a caSgyES&lr7yoWuer .In/foermrwatlisoend. ^ e Hie Instructions to Mr. Howard a re that if " T *" ," 1 " 5 ? - ^ f c ? n ,- S w r to S h u , ? 75? or M r` C1W f9* Instructions but that if he i E such " * = / f . h. . t S i ^ S 11 ;0 fit < 03/30/00 08:35 TX/RX NO.5374 P.001 30-MAR-00 12:26 r in o L 1u lj *NTERNATr OHALBUSINESSUHT n n o LJ LJ m _i A -4 161 247 6313 P.01 h-kr'.yn-,*^ - i f m * V . \ , t - . i a " ' - p - t *i~i ^ 7 T ;, ' - r - p i T u rn er & b ew ail L td ., like eth er m em bers of the ^ TAisbesios Industry in the United Kingdom, have been aw are of the iar.gers of asb e sto s's for very many years and w ere largely instrum ental in setting up the join; re se a rc h body which keeps this possible hazard to health under constant review . The ^ various com panies in the T&N Group receive asbestos fibre in its crude or only partially opened state, packed in strong hessian bags. They have spared no expense over the y e a rs in installing special dust extraction and a ir purification plants in o rd er to remove from the a ir the dust produced by the subsequent fibre opening treatm ent. The re s u lt is titat in some of the factory a re a s the air is p u rer than in the atm osphere outside; in areas in which there is danger from dust resp irato ry m asks a re ^ _ provided, the use of which elim inates any risk . All manufacturing p ro cesses a re so organised as to reduce health h azard s to tne :m inim um . The health reco rd s oi operatives in T&N com panies Icom pare well with those of operatives in the generality of industry, : We believe that there is no danger to the health of deckers who; handle the h essian bags containing crude or p artially opened :asbestos frpm our m ines, provided the bags a re not sp lit or b u rst ; by the c a re le ss use of hooks or some sim ilar accident. Heavy ^ ^ ; concentrations of dust a re 'unlikely unless bags a re damaged in this way. N evertheless, we a re accelerating existing plans for the provision of im perm eable bags which will, quite ap art from any health facto r, m ake this cargo m ore pleasant to handle. 03/30/00 08:37 oMmmHMMI TX/RX NO. 5375 .. R.00.1