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Role Of Industrial Hygienist In Asbestos Litigation
- 1. Baltimore Chicago Cleveland Columbus Role Of Industrial Hygienist In Houston Asbestos Litigation Ft. Lauderdale Houston Jacksonville David Randall, PE, CSP St. Louis Tampa December 2, 2006
- 2. Basic Industrial Hygiene Baltimore Chicago Cleveland • Recognition Columbus Houston • Evaluation Ft. Lauderdale • Control Houston Jacksonville St. Louis Tampa
- 3. Recognition Baltimore Chicago Cleveland Columbus Houston Ft. Lauderdale Houston Jacksonville St. Louis Tampa
- 4. Evaluation Baltimore Chicago Cleveland • NIOSH 7400 (Phase Contrast Microscopy) Columbus Houston Ft. Lauderdale Houston • NIOSH 7402 (Transmission Electron Jacksonville St. Louis Spectroscopy) Tampa
- 5. History of Air Standards for Baltimore Asbestos Chicago Cleveland Columbus HISTORY OF ASBESTOS STANDARD Houston 14 Ft. Lauderdale 12 Asbestos Std OSHA PEL Asbestos Std. ACGIH TWA 12 12 Houston 10 FIBERS/CC 8 Jacksonville 6 St. Louis 4 Tampa 2 0 70 72 74 78 80 82 84 86 88 90 94 96 98 00 76 92 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 20 YEAR
- 6. Control Baltimore Chicago Cleveland Columbus Houston Ft. Lauderdale Houston Jacksonville St. Louis Tampa
- 7. Plaintiff’s Viewpoint Baltimore Chicago Cleveland • One fiber is all it takes to cause illness - Columbus Irving Selikoff, MD Houston Ft. Lauderdale • Shotgun approach – your ACM product was Houston in the building – assume all defendants Jacksonville St. Louis were guilty. Tampa • Defendant prove that your product did not cause my client harm.
- 8. Defense Agenda Baltimore Chicago Cleveland • Is defendant’s product friable as per EPA? Columbus Houston • Does defendant’s product release asbestos Ft. Lauderdale fibers in normal course of its use? Houston Jacksonville • Was defendant’s product abused or misused St. Louis by plaintiff? Tampa
- 9. Plaintiff Testing Baltimore Chicago Cleveland • Tyndall Lighting to show “dust”; assume it Columbus is all asbestos without further analysis. Houston Ft. Lauderdale Houston Jacksonville St. Louis Tampa
- 10. Defense Testing Baltimore Chicago Cleveland • Defense expert IH’s must secure exemplar Columbus products to test (may be 1950’s –1980’s vintage) Houston Ft. Lauderdale • Products of proper vintage can be relatively easily Houston found on EBay and similar venues. Jacksonville • Need to test vintage products in their testified use St. Louis by plaintiff and then sample the air by NIOSH Tampa 7400 (PCM) and NIOSH 7402 (TEM)