FILE NAME Quebec Asbestos Mining Association QAMA DATE 1979 Mar DOC QAMA157 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION QAMA Bulletin Vol 3 No. 2 Health and safety at work During the current session the National Assembly will apparently be presented with a Bill concerning health and safety at work in Qu^'bec Before any Bill has even been made public ' the press has been discussing various drafts whose authenticity can only be guessed and which are even less certain to be definitive but which none- theless give reason to believe that the Bill could on certain basic issues diverge from the general orientation set out in the White Paper which the Minister of State for Social Development offered for the consideration of all in- terested parties if accepted hinder rather than help in the achievement of the basic objective which is the health and the safety of workers In particular this would be the case if the safety parity committees instead of being voluntary and advisory subject if need be to establishing incentives for their setting up and efficient operation were imposed by outside authority Indeed such committees if they do not express the wish of the workers and the employers to join to- gether to find the solution to the problems of health and safety are likely very rapidly to become hotbeds of confrontation and conflict making the very The AMAQ position object of the committees impossible to achieve The Association des mines d'amiante du Qu^'becexpressed support for the objectives set out in the Paper issued by Minister Marois subject to the resulting law and regulations being viable and realistic defining fairly the responsibilities and obligations of all parties and also their rights not giving rise to an excessive degree of bureaucratic intervention and taking into account the particularities of the mining industry The Association has no hesitation in acknowledging the need for an outline law in the area of health and safety at work and the relevance of reform mea- sures removing the current multiplicity of laws and regulations and the fragmentation of administrative responsibi- lities and setting up a more coherent system and a unified set of norms Industrial medecine In the same way the principle that the working environment should itself take in hand the problems of health and | i safety at work which is fundamental to the White Paper's approach would be !

FILE NAME Corning OC DATE 1979 Apr 12 DOC OC371 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Memo RE Asbestos Related Disease RF PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT K.625 BY OCF OWENS C^ NING FIBERGLAS company correspondence 10 L.

FILE NAME Bechtel BECH DATE 1972 Mar 16 DOC BECH038 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Internal Memo RE Report on Monitoring Airborne Asbestos Fibers for Job 8633 bel wen RECEIVED RECEIVED RECEIVED RECEIVED 20 DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT SAFETYSAFETY -- J.

FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1970 May 27 DOC NMA151 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION WCBS Radio Transcript - Ottinger Claims Asbestos Spray Cancerous RADIO TV REPORTS INC 41 EAST 42ND STREET NEW YORK NY NY bd 10317 697-510 N Nie FOR JOIN INVILLE CORPORATIO PROGRAM NEWS RADIO 88 DATE May 27th VICES STATION 11-15 11:45 4 CITY CITY .

FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1971 July 18 DOC NMA057 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - Asbestos - You'll Be All Right If You Just Stop Breathing -- EARL UBELL New York Times Current file Jul 18 1971 ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times 1851 - 2002 Pg E6 Environment Asbestos You'll Be All Right If You Just Stop Breathing New Yorkers strolling along almost any midtown street in these degree July days will often be greeted by a snowfall white flakes glinting in the sun tumbling out of the sky If you scoop up some of the snow- flakes and happen to have an electron microscope handy to examine them you will find the white fluffs to be composed of millions of fibers of asbestos Their source Up among the rising bare girders of the building under construction overhead asbestos is being sprayed Asbestos is intended to save lives by insulating girders against the heat of a fire preventing the steel from bending like molasses before the occupants can escape from the upper floors But the substance has a deadly side as well Studies conducted over the past few decades reinforced by later research among men who work with the material have provided strong evidence linking asbestos with cancer of the lung and abdomen With asbestos numer- ous researchers have induced various of cancer in hamsters and in rats And in recent months the ubiquity of asbestos in the environment the air we breathe in clothes even in talcum powder caused increasing concern among many medical leaders Last week the City Council moved to end one major source of asbestos pollution by banning its spraying throughout the city The ban appeared as a section of the new air pollution control code it was enacted essentially because earlier efforts by city air control officials to regulate the use of asbestos by building contractors had proved fruitless New York City last year set regulations to limit the escape of asbestos from spraying sites The rules required that a contractor enclose the spraying areas with large plastic tarpaulins he was also to vacuum each story twice and to be particularly careful when shoveling up the excess material During a recent visit to a con- struction site in company with Harold Romer assistant commissioner in the Department of Air Resources this writer saw piles of loose asbestos lying around on the sprayed floor gaping holes in the tarpaulins and gusts of wind carrying clumps of the dry material into the street where it lay like an early morning frost Mr.

FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1974 Oct 2 DOC NMA090 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - 3 States Ask Court to Halt Dumping in Lake Superior 3 States Ask Court to Halt Dumping in Lake Superior GLADWIN HILLSpecial York Superior By GLADWIN HILSpecial Dumping New Pg to The - file Times Times Current ; Oct 2 1974 ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times 1851 - 2002 3 States Ask Court to Halt Dumping in Lake Superior By GLADWIN HILL - i Special to The New York Times .

FILE NAME Talc TALC DATE 1971 July DOC TALC418 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Memo to Desert Minerals Inc. with Attached Article from Chemical Week - Asbestos in the Boudoir m.

FILE NAME Talc TALC DATE 1976 Mar 1 DOC TALC091 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Telephone Call Record between Dr.

FILE NAME: Pecora Chemical (PEC) DATE: 1970-1971 DOC#: PEC006 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Field Activity Report H72.003 REV.B-70 REGION.

FILENAME: Flintkote (FLK) DATE: 1978 July 5 DOC#: FLK020 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Memo RE Asbestos General Employee Training :UNTKOTF J ) INTER-OFFICE CORRESPONDENCE Mr.

FILE NAME: RT Vanderbilt (RTV) DATE: 1974 Feb 28 DOC#: RTV 190 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: J-M Memo RE Vacuums for Cleaning Talc Dust from Employee Clothing Johns-Manvilte Internal Correspondence To: C.

FILE NAME: Pfizer (PFIZ) DATE: 1972 June 29 DOC#: PFIZ017 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Handwritten Notes - Author Unknown I : .V.';*. ...*-- -f- w7'to t , Q i "A*.

FILE NAME: Pfizer (PFIZ) DATE: 1972-1976 DOC#: PFIZ005 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Pfizer Talc Docs & Memos from Manville Archive vuotine to aUMiini riiiil under lliw 5(eiy mi H tW il^ ti This standard limiti the 8 lion* limn weighted aidmrne eoncentretiom ol nthrtini libers.

FILE NAME: CTFA (CTFA) DATE: 1974 Sept 6 DOC#: CTFA005 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: CTFA M eetin g M inutes w ith Report of Ad Hoc M ethodology Comm ittee \ v

FILE NAME: Colgate (COL) DATE: 1976 Mar 11 DOC#: COL008 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Mt.