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FILE NAME: General Motors (GM) DATE: 1942 DOC#: GM014 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: IHF Membership Report / s yprrwy --- -- ^ - u 1- y u . " IHF MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION For LEGAL purposes .1 in >.!.ui -- * " 1 9 * 4 - - 1 9 8 1 \ ' New Members During 1942, 11 more companies and associations affiliated with Indus trial Hygiene Foundation in the organization's efforts to promote healthft working conditions, namely: G*nraf Motor* Corporation Kopptra Company Fimtkoto Company Qonaral Rafractortaa Company 0 %*tn*.Corning Fibarolat Corp. Domon Ctitir Company Em ployer* Mutual Liability Insurance Co. Ctrathmora Pa par Company D rttiti Manufacturing Company Oaviaon Chamlcal Company Pacific Coart Association Pulp and Paper Manufacturer* There are now 246 company and association members in the Found* tion. These organizations, practically all of them directly engaged in w production, employ between 2 and 3 million war worker*. Plant Hygiene Surreys The introduction of unfamiliar and new chemicals in manufacturing processes, some with little known toxic effects, is demanding even great attention to plant hygiene measures. Meanwhile the dermatoses continu to be the most common of all occupational diseases. j The Foundation has conducted more plant hygiene surveys than in ani previous year. These investigations, snpervised by Frank R. Holden, checl on the possible existence of health hazards in the workplaces. If hazard! are detected, effectual measures are devised for their correction. Beside fostering healthful working conditions, the Foundation's plant survey are proving to be an increasing factor in advancing harmonious laba relations, helping to eliminate working conditions which are often source of discontent, such as nuisance dusts and fumes. The Foundation collaborates actively with governmental agencies, botl state and federal, which are interested in industrial health. One evider.o of this cooperation is the subscription classification started early in th year whereby governmental agencies can secure all Foundation publics tions at less than cost. Since this arrangement was initiated 12 month ago, 4 federal agencies including Army and Navy, 22 states, and S citi have subscribed for Foundation literature. Meanwhile, 3 universities an 4 private specialists have also availed themselves of this material. Research The Foundation has continued to support medical and engineering n search in industrial health with grants to The Saranac Laboratory, Univej sity of Pennsylvania and Harvard School of Public Health. Findings froi these studies have been published. Then, too, sin important study in toxi cology is under way for a member company at Mellon Institute. Publications Two medical and two engineering bulletins have been issued to m e bers during the year. These publications, giving the results of research are as follows: . , 1. Comparison of Stereoscopic Miniature Chest Films, Single Roentgenograms on Paper, and Single Roentgenograms on Large Films. .. ... ; 'f'rnyc^ 7/4 //L y'\yLLi4 < ^ s/j 1