299 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 10 of 15
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Some lessons learned from using participatory methods in asbestos worker training
…methods in response to teacher burnout, student boredom and requests from new staff. The article presented one problem-solving exercise: a case study written for members of the United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers, and Allied Workers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Work and workers' responses at Wittenoom, 1943-1966
…to 50%) were of non-British migrant origin. The author identified three responses: departure, silence (almost no organised industrial, union, political or community action) and diversion (drinking, gambling and parties). These were explained by several factors…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
"Make history but don't forget the past"
…Australia, on 24 November 2004. The author spoke as a life member of the wharf section of the Maritime Workers Union. The speech reports no data collection or analysis. The author recalled that health department officials…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Asbestos: science in the face of hostility in sao paulo
…from Europe, the U.S. and South America. The article reported that union members faced death threats, a kidnapping and a beating before the meeting, and that there was diplomatic pressure to cancel it. It gave…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Exporting death made in Quebec
…public health tragedy for Canada and the rest of the world. The author stated that over 40 countries, including the European Union, had banned chrysotile. The author also stated that Quebec's chrysotile went mostly to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Swedish approaches to industry-wide studies: the construction industry
…health program. The author described following three groups through national death and cancer registries: workers identified in the 1960 and 1970 censuses; about 30,000 painters' union members, 20,000 plumbers and 1,500 insulation workers;…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1969
An interdisciplinary approach to measurement
…associated with asbestos exposure. Dr V Timbrell discussed how dust deposition in the lung influenced the choice of particle sizes for the International Union Against Cancer's standard reference samples of asbestos. Dr J C Wagner…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Surface charge heterogeneity in amphibole cleavage fragments and asbestos fibers
…particle to find its length-to-width ratio (aspect ratio), which ranged from 1 up to 40. Four amphibole samples were tested: crocidolite and grunerite asbestos from the International Union Against Cancer, acicular tremolite, and riebeckite…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Proportionate mortality among US shoeworkers, 1966-1977
…examined among 3,754 decedents (2,144 men, 1,610 women) who had worked in shoe manufacturing plants represented by either of two labor unions in the US. None of the shoeworker deaths were attributed to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Mesothelioma incidence and community asbestos exposure
…their "usual employment" was reported as being at the asbestos plant, as evidenced through union lists or occupational information from either the Cancer Registry or mortality records. Standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) were computed for residents of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Asbestos and cancer: An overview of current trends in Europe
…between 0. 004 kg in northern Europe and 2.4 kg in the former Soviet Union. Population surveys from northern Europe indicate that 15 to 30% of the male (and a few percent of the female…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Use of asbestos, health risks and induced occupational diseases in the former East Germany
…and fire prevention material, etc. in the large-scale chemical industry. The asbestos was imported from the former Soviet Union, smaller amounts came from Canada. In the German Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt, approximately 600 asbestoses…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Pulmonary fibrosis in workers exposed to non-asbestiform tremolite asbestos minerals
…Taiwan, compared those who processed nephrite (jade), described by the authors as non-asbestiform tremolite, with other stone workers. Of 1902 stone union members invited, 344 enrolled. After exclusions, 305 workers were analyzed, 53 of whom…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Asbestosis: Past voices from the Mumbai factory floor
…two knew their breathing illness came from their past work. The other 15 did not know about their illness until their union began a screening program. Only 3 of the 17 said they had used masks…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Relative risk of mesothelioma among railroad machinists exposed to chrysotile
…1945, the author followed the 181 machinists hired from 1920 to 1929 through 1986. Deaths were identified from union death claim records. The author concluded from historical sources that the boiler lagging was almost exclusively, if…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Asbestos in Italy
Asbestos-related diseases remain common in Italy due to past exposures that were tolerated by a government distracted and manipulated by multinational asbestos corporations. The incidence of asbestos-related cancers has taken on almost epidemic proportions…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Pleural determinants of restrictive lung function and respiratory symptoms in an asbestos-exposed population
…to breathing symptoms. The authors analyzed 1,211 sheet metal workers in the midwest United States who had at least 25 years in the trade and took part in a 1986 union medical evaluation. Pleural abnormalities…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Failure to prove asbestos exposure produces obstructive lung disease
…cigarette smoking, lung function and chest radiograph abnormalities in 3,383 patients referred mainly by plaintiff attorneys and trade union members. He noted that the study had reported clinically significant airflow obstruction as well as restrictive…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Industrial workers' health and environmental pollution under the new international division of labor: the Taiwan experience
…health and pollution. They drew on published reports, trade data and 1993 interviews with 13 union cadres from plastic and petrochemical industries. The authors stated that no health data on these workers were available, but cited…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Re: Paradis G. Ban all production and export of chrysotile asbestos [Editor's Page]. Can J Public Health 2010;101(5):352
…Canadian Public Health Association, the Canadian Cancer Society and the Canadian Medical Association for aligning with United Nations agencies and the European Union in calling for the elimination of asbestos use and export. The author argued…