Handling Asbestos Fiber

This document is not a research study. It is a safety brochure titled "Handling Asbestos Fiber," published by the Johns-Manville Corporation's Health, Safety and Environment Department. No individual author or publication date is given. It reports no data, participants or findings. Instead, it gives instructions for handling bagged asbestos fiber through packaging, transport, unloading, storage, in-plant moving and waste disposal. It does not name a fiber type. The brochure said unitized loads should be lifted intact and that care should be taken not to puncture bags during unloading. It said stored bags should be stacked with care and used first-in, first-out. Where dust is created, it called for maximum possible enclosure and fully effective dust control. A partly unreadable passage linked protective equipment to dust levels that cannot be kept within the Threshold Limit Value by dust control. Dust from exhaust systems was to be collected and disposed of without releasing dust into the outside air. Readers were told to consult OSHA regulations and EPA rules, and industry groups were listed for further information.

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From J-M's medical library

This copy comes from the Johns-Manville medical library. It was among the papers J-M kept in its medical library without an index entry.