7 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1968
Industrial Hygiene For Insulation Workers
This 1968 paper reported preliminary findings from an industrial hygiene survey of insulation workers in San Francisco Local 16 of the insulators' union. The local had about 500 men in Northern California and Northern Nevada. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1970
A labor-management occupational health service in a construction industry
…13 western US states, run jointly by their union and contractors. It was a program description rather than a new study. The region had about 2,200 insulating workers in 11 local unions. Citing their own…
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Government report · 1967
Asbestos and Human Health with Recommendations in Research (1967)
…a new study. It drew on published research, a 1964 New York Academy of Sciences conference, a working group of the International Union Against Cancer, and a U.S. Public Health Service meeting. The author called…
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Article · 1978
Health Screening Examinations for Workers Who Have Been Exposed to Asbestos (1978)
…Health Plan, on whether to screen people exposed to asbestos. The author described earlier work with Local 16 of the Asbestos Workers Union. That work found that a large proportion of members had asbestosis, and that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1968
The Work Environment Of Insulating Workers
…of lung disease and cancers in these workers was still under way. It covered the roughly 500-member San Francisco local (No. 16) of the insulators' union. Of these members, 401 were active in March 1967…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1969
Occupational Health In The Insulating Trade
…The program covered about 2,200 insulating workers in 11 local unions across 13 western states. In 1966, a contractors' association and the union's western conference set up a fund paid for by a 2…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Informing Workers and Employers About Occupational Cancer
…committee heard from government agencies, unions, companies and physicians. It also held an open meeting (some 55 attendees) and a symposium (149 attendees plus 30 invited speakers), and a letter to unions, trade associations and public…