J. F. Reis to Christy Snyder on J-M's Role in Three Safety Pamphlets (1982)

A one-page Johns-Manville internal memo of January 15, 1982, from J. F. Reis to Christy Snyder, answering the question in Steven Schwartz's letter of December 31, 1981. Of the three pamphlets, J-M had been involved only with the Asbestos Information Association booklet "Recommended Work Practices Shop and Field Fabrication of Asbestos Sheet Products." Ed Fenner of J-M's health, safety and environment staff chaired the association's technical committee and "supplied most of the information that went into the booklet," which was first published in late 1975, given to OSHA and EPA staff, and handed out by asbestos producers, J-M included, to their customers.

What it shows

The memo dates J-M's part in one industry work-practice booklet to 1975 and says J-M "did not participate in the writing of the other two publications." It does not name the other two.