Re: “TLVs for asbestos”
✍ Scribed by Gerald V. Coles
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 197 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-3586
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The Cook [ 19921 letter to the Editor on asbestos litigation and the application of the Threshold Limit Value (TLV) requires clarification and correction. The litigation referred to by Cook (over the past decades)
This response was prompted by the Letter to the Editor from the late Professor Warren Cook [ 19921, in which he claimed that the Threshold Limit Value (TLV) for asbestos, which was proposed in 1946 by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH), was 5 mfpcuft (five million
It has come to my attention that expert testimony in support of disability claims based on employer negligence for workers exposed to operations involving asbestos have applied a threshold limit value (TLV) erroneously as a basis for negligence. Over the period of 1946 to 1970, the American Confere