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FILE NAME: Asbestos Sacks and Bags (ASB) DATE: 1966 Nov DOC#: ASB078 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Letter from Workers' Union to Shipping Committee - Handling of Asbestos - Mesothelioma Has Been Added to List of Diseases Under the Industrial Injuries Act, 1965 Regional Secretary i .BRANDON -- ------ -- _ --- A T 'll ----Ttltghone: STAmford h i l l 4 2 8 1 -7 REGISTERED OFFICES! Transpoort House SMITH SQUARE WESTMINSTER * LONDON S.W .l * * fi i^ Y l < f/1 / > REGION No. 1 (London and Home C ounties) Your Ref.: Our Ref.: PLEASE QUO TE REF. REGIONAL OFFICE! "W O O D B E R R Y " 218 GREEN LANES EINSBURY PARK LONDON N-4 Gen. Sec.: F. COUSINS Financial Sec.: F. PANNIFER PLEASE REPLY TO 281 V IC TO R IA DOCK ROAD, CUSTOM HOUSE, E.16 Tel. : ALBert Dock 2647 DISTRICT OFFICE COMMUNICATION November 17th. o 1966 Mr. B.L. Bennett, Secretary, OoSo Group Joint Committee, The Shipping Federation, 146/150, Minories. EC3. 6 l6 Bear Sir, / HANDLING OF ASBESTOS. We have formally been advised that Mesothelioma has now been added to the list of Biseases Prescribed under the Industrial Injuries Act 1965, arising out of the Handling of Asbestos At a Meeting of the Ocean Shipowners Bay Committee it was decided to advise our members working within the Ocean Trades, that from Monday January 2nd, 1967, unless Asbestos is carried in bags which are impervious.to the escape of Bust or in suchother containers as would have the same effect, not to handle this Commodity / Yours faithfully, W. MUFBAY. CONVENOR. OoS.L.C.