FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1973 May 31 DOC NMA073 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - Mt.

FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1978 Dec 3 DOC NMA133 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Kansas City Star - Tough Restrictions Don't End Asbestos Threat - Part 3 of 3 .

FILE NAME Quigley QUIG DATE 1972 Mar 7 DOC QUIG014 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Internal Report NIOSH & OSHA OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH REPORT Volume 21 March 7 1972 NIOSH - OSHA'S GIANT PARTNER Importance of the Williams Act role of OSHA under DOL Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to industry has been well publicized The in setting safety and health standards the inspection so evident provisions citations and fines are has been the job of OSHA's powerful well known Not quite partner NIOSH in support of the Act is specifically set NIOSH National Institute of up under the Williams Steiger Safety and Health Act and is created under the jurisdiction of HEW NIOSH is consultant in 1 Determining health priorities 2 Setting health and safety standards 3 Hazard evaluations of toxicity determinations 4 Development of manpower to implement the Act 5.

Health Policy Advisory Center No. 50 March 1973 HEALTH PAC BULLETIN Editorial: YOUR JOB OR YOUR LIFE Outside of coal miners'black lung disease, more public and scientific atten- tion has been focused on asbestos - related diseases than any other occupational hazard.

No. 76 May / June 1977 HEALTH / PAC Health BULLETIN BULLETIN BULLETIN BULLETIN BULLETIN Policy Advisory Center Sica 1 Medical School a Sweepstakes: ei la THE RACE IS FIXED.

FILE NAME Dental Asbestos DEN DATE 1976 Apr DOC DEN101 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Journal Article - Hazards of Asbestos in Dentistry Hazards of asbestos in dentistry Council on Dental Therapeutics Council on Dental Materials and Devices e pawe n tepeeeerseess Asbestos is chiefly used in dentistry as a binder in periodontal dressings and as a lining material for casting rings and crucibles Asbestos is a large amounts are being prepared in poorly ventilated areas and when the powder is shaken prior to mixing Also exposure to airborne generic term for a number of hydrated silicate fibers may occur in dental laboratories where minerals which under crushing or other pro- asbestos is used to line casting rings or crucibles cessing procedures separate into flexible fibers for casting machines and in general is kept in the There are many such minerals including chrys- laboratory in large rolls Here the danger lies otile asmosite crocidolite anthophyllite tre- in the tendency for personnel to carelessly cut molite and actinolite Most asbestos is classi- sections off these rolls and thus release asbestos fied as chrysotile and it appears to be the most hazardous fiber in the group into the ambient air The maximum permissible exposure of an employee to airborne concen- It has been documented that airborne asbes- trations of asbestos fibers over an hour tos is related causally to the development of pul- weighted average has been established as monary asbestosis and fibrosis lung cancer five fibers longer than 5...mper cubic centi- Ard and pleural and peritoneal mesotheliomas meter of air On July 1 1976 the maximum will Recent epidemiologic studies also have indicat- be reduced to two such fibers per cubic centi- a ed that the chance of lung cancer developing in meter of air This is of importance to the dentist rr smokers exposed to airborne asbestos is greater than it is in nonsmokers 10-12 operating his own laboratory as well as to the employees in commercial dental laboratories The potential danger to dental personnel in To prevent release of fibers into the air asbestos fo.

FILE NAME Talc TALC DATE 1975 Apr 1 DOC TALC090 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NIOSH Memo RE Analysis of Talcs for Asbestos Fiber Content : .

FILE NAME Talc TALC DATE 1977 Dec DOC TALC196 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Conference Agenda & Attendees Occupational Exposures to Fibrous and Particulate Dust OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES TO FIBROUS AND PARTICULATE DUST AND THEIR EXTENSION INTO THE ENVIRONMENT The Mayflower Hotel Washington D.

FILE NAME: Asbestos Cement Pipe and Sheet (ACPS) DATE: 1971 DOC#: ACPS012 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Journal Article - Exposure of Insulation Workers to Asbestos Dust Work-Environment-Health, Voi. 8, n:o 1, 1971 Exposure of insulation workers to asbestos dust by K a j Ahlman and Eero Siltanen* INTRODUCTION Asbestosis was first described as an occupa tional disease among insulating workers by Ellman (5) in 1934.

FILE NAME: Asbestos Cement Pipe and Sheet (ACPS) DATE: 1977 Aug DOC#: ACPS031 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Published Article - The Acute Effects of Chrysotile Asbestos Exposure on Lung Function The Acute Effects of Chrysotile Asbestos Exposure on Lung Function1 K eith W .

FILE NAME Brakes BRK DATE 1972 Dec 4 DOC BRK043 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Letter from Baltimore County Dept of Health BALTIMORE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH DIVISION OF AIR POLLUTION AND INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE MARYLAND AVENUE AND HILLEN ROAD TOWSON MARYLAND 21204 DONALD J.

FILE NAME Brakes BRK DATE 1978 DOC BRK139 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Excerpt - EPA Report EPA 6-78-005 TR 77-515 CHEMICAL MARKET OUTPUT ANALYSIS OF SELECTED CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES TO ASSESS SOURCES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION TASK III ASBESTOS William M.

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