Air Hygiene Foundation Membership Committee Report (1940)

One page of the Air Hygiene Foundation's proceedings of its fifth annual meeting, November 12 and 13, 1940: the membership committee report by C. E. Ralston, safety director of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. Eleven new members had joined, including the American Mutual Liability Insurance Company, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and the Maryland Self-Insurers' Association, keeping membership at 225 companies.

What it shows

Ralston sold the Foundation's plant surveys partly as protection against claims: "In case of claims, you have a record showing what the health conditions actually were at the time of alleged injury," and a report from an outside agency "carries more weight in Court" than one made by the company itself. The Foundation (renamed the Industrial Hygiene Foundation in 1941) counted insurers among its members from its early years.