Industrial Hygiene Foundation Membership Committee Report on New Members and Its New Name (1941)

A one-page "Report of the Membership Committee" by C. E. Ralston, safety director of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, from the proceedings of the Foundation's sixth annual meeting (November 12 and 13, 1941). It names thirteen companies that joined in 1941, says Lewis H. Brown, president of Johns-Manville, "which has held membership since the Foundation was started," had agreed to help with a membership campaign, and reports that the change of name from Air Hygiene Foundation to Industrial Hygiene Foundation "became official only recently."

What it shows

The report ties the Foundation's work to wartime production: it helps companies "keep precautions apace with production," the only way to offset the rise in "sick absences and occupational disease" that comes with faster industrial work. See Lewis H. Brown.