Abstract
An extensive medical and engineering study of the health of asbestos workers has been conducted by the United States Public Health Service (5). The material contained in this paper supplements the general study with a detailed study of the dust control methods used in an asbestos fabricating plant. It is a report on present conditions and how they have been obtained and is presented as an example of the results of the application of scientific methods of dust control. These data should be interesting not only to the asbestos industry but also to other industries having similar dusty processes. The plant studied has only partly completed an extensive dust control program, and conditions are being improved continually; consequently, these results should not be interpreted as representing the maximum possible efficiency in the control of asbestos dust, but it is believed that they are representative of the best practice in this country at this time. The dust control systems in use with the various processes in each department are described. An occupational analysis of employees is presented, with a comparison of the atmospheric dust concentrations associated with controlled and similar uncontrolled processes.
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