Quote – J.B. Jobe, Executive vice president of Johns-Manville Corporation, the largest asbestos mining company in the world.

Achieving a standard of [5 fibers] will cost millions of dollars and cause a significant number of American jobs to be shifted to foreign workers. Requiring a more stringent standard and requiring unnecessarily frightening labels can have a catastrophic effects on the very people OSHA’s and the industry are attempting to protect, without really solving the human problem.

OSHA hearings: “Standard For Exposure to Asbestos Dust, Proposed Rulemaking.”

Thursday, March 16, 1972
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