The Management Viewpoint (1947)

This chapter was a talk giving management's views on compensation for occupational diseases, followed by discussion. It was not a research study. The author said management wanted one uniform compensation law. Allowable dust concentrations, the author said, should be set in state health department codes, not in the law, and in most cases there was not enough scientific data to enforce proposed limits. Disease claims were described as harder than accident claims because results may appear years after exposure. As an example, the author said some employees with appendicitis had been misdiagnosed with acute lead poisoning. The author recommended pre-employment physical examinations and criticized broad sick-pay policies. A discussant tied to Johns-Manville Corporation questioned a draft New Jersey limit for asbestos of not more than five million particles per cubic foot, counting particles 10 microns or less in longest dimension. The discussant said no one could state with certainty the maximum allowable limit for asbestos dust. The discussant also described Dr. Gardner's animal work at Saranac suggesting finer particles did not produce fibrosis. Much of the supplied OCR transcription is unreadable.

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From J-M's medical library

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