a Exposure Rules WALL STREET JOURNAL agency plans merely to insert the names of Tuesday May 31 -1977 Individual chemicals that it determines may | \ | On5 Major Hazards high cause cancer : ~" place noise is too The noise standard under development for several years is being held up because soon The safety chief said her agency a Z considering on nickel 4 chro- | Expected by Year portions of the official transcript of a hearing on the issue are unintelligible according to Labor Department officials The tran- mates beryllium sulphur sulphur dioxide and acry textile lonitrile a synthetic substance re- cently identified as a possible cause of can ; 4 Byta WALL STREET JOURNAL Staff Reporter ti: WASHINGTON Labor Department expects to adopt limits on worker exposure five major health hazards by year | but awaited standard on noise i) levels probably won't be among them Eula At Bingham Assistant Secretary of | Labor for Occupational Safety and Health final said rules controlling workers expo- ) sure to arsenic benzene cotton dust and scribing company that made the texts has gone out of business complicating the effort to unscramble them Bingham begun on others chemicals . has just In addition Miss Bingham said she is On another matter the Supreme assistant secre bringing in an outside expert to help the agency decide on the design of the noise| Supreme a lower federal court's rurluilnigng safety requiring job rule which would affect more workers and/} safety inspectors to obtain warrants before - employers than any other occupational | health regulation Business already claimed that has the cost of clamping down on entering work places the agency agency hurt but could adjust If we she warrant that's what we shall would be have to get a said lead likely will be issued during the next seven months The rules currently are in various stages of the legal standard process A fifth standard dealing with cancer but without citing any particular chemical , MIND wee come.

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Its capability is even more important since the disclosure that prolonged exposure to vinyl chloride or its constituents can lead to a rare form of cancer

Identification of the major peaks in a typical plastisol pyrogram provides information leading to a precise identification of the plasti cizer.

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Some of you will no doubt feel inconvenienced by some of the changes that are made, but please remember that these ae measures which have been recommended by some of our nation's leading medical authorities.

The process leads to the existing level instruments on the fresh VCM receivers will be heat traced and insulated. 3- Revisions to the standard operating procedure have been made to require termina tion of polymerization with the emergency kill system if the reactor pressure reaches li+5 PSIG during production of 5385 grade resin.

This fact, along with the recent decision in the GAF case (see attached legal opinion) , leads me to reappraise the former recommendation.

A leading incineration service is developing equipment that will shred a PCB capacitor and then incinerate the liquid in one operation.

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., the nation's lead-" Tng supplier of polychlorinated biphenyl, used as an electric insulator, said it would stop production of the chemical by Oct. 31, 1977, because of possible hazardous effects on bumans.

Some of you will no doubt feel inconvenienced by some of the changes that are made, but please remember that these afe measures which have been recommended by some of our nation's leading medical authorities.

They quite agree that the coordination arising from such exchange should lead to a more productive overall outcome, appreciating it would be especially beneficial to the U.