Recommandations concernant les conditions du travail dans l'industrie de l'amiante (French) (1965)

This French-language document was not a research study. It gave recommendations on asbestos-industry working conditions from Normandy's regional social security fund in Rouen. Its regional technical committee for textiles and chemicals approved it on 6 May 1965. It named no fiber types and reported no health data. Average dust in workrooms was not to exceed a level of about 300.000 particles per liter of air, written in French style, where the point separates thousands. This was to be measured by a method recommended or accepted by the Institut National de Sécurité. Floors were to be vacuumed daily, and grinding, mixing and preparation done in closed equipment without manual intervention. Workers assigned to this work, or regularly employed where it was done, needed a medical certificate of fitness renewed every year, and the yearly examination was to include a chest X-ray. Work exposing people to the risk of asbestosis was barred to under-18s. At hiring, workers who had received a silicosis or asbestosis pension or a job-change allowance, or had a respiratory deficiency, were to be kept out of this work.

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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.