Materion Corporation and United Steelworkers Applaud Proposed OSHA Standard for Beryllium
07 August 2015 - 3:29AM
Business Wire
The United Steelworkers (USW) and Materion Corporation
(NYSE:MTRN) today jointly applauded the U.S. Occupational Safety
and Health Administration (OSHA) for issuing a proposed beryllium
standard to better protect beryllium workers.
Materion initiated a dialogue with the United Steelworkers
several years ago, which resulted in reaching an understanding on
the elements of a model occupational health standard for beryllium
which we jointly shared with OSHA. Our collaborative process put
worker protection first while providing a positive and economically
beneficial result for workers, customers, government, and the
beryllium-producing and fabricating industries. This approach
demonstrates industry and labor can collaborate to better protect
workers, protect jobs and serves as a guide for OSHA to consider in
preparing future standards regarding all materials.
Materion has invested substantially in acquiring new scientific
knowledge on how to best protect our workers and customers’
employees from the potential health effects of beryllium. As a
research partner with the National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH) for more than 17 years, Materion has
embraced an open dialogue on beryllium worker health and safety.
From the research results, Materion built an effective beryllium
health and safety program, which the company has disseminated
worldwide via www.berylliumsafety.com.
Richard J. Hipple, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said,
“We will participate in the final standard development process by
contributing our scientific knowledge and our research-to-practice
experiences. We are interested in assessing how the proposed
standard aligns with the model standard that we jointly submitted
to OSHA. We sincerely desire that the final standard be promulgated
in the shortest possible time and we stand ready to assist OSHA in
this regard.”
Materion is the only U.S. producer of pure beryllium metal, and
accounts for well over half of the beryllium alloys and compounds
produced in the United States and worldwide. Materion said it will
assist its customers and end users of the products that it
manufactures to comply with the new beryllium standard so that the
public and all users continue to benefit from the numerous
applications of beryllium-containing materials that drive
innovation and improve the world.
Headquartered in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, Materion Corporation,
through its wholly owned subsidiaries, supplies highly engineered
advanced enabling materials to global markets. Products include
precious and non-precious specialty metals, inorganic chemicals and
powders, specialty coatings, specialty engineered beryllium alloys,
beryllium and beryllium composites, and engineered clad and plated
metal systems.
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