NAIMA's Commitment to Safety

NAIMA and its members are committed to protecting the health and safety of consumers, employees and contractors who install and manufacture our insulation products. Our member companies work closely with government officials to ensure that our products are safe to manufacture, install and use, and have invested tens of millions of dollars in independent research projects in the United States and abroad.

Our products' safety is supported by nearly 70 years of scientific research. This research, aimed at investigating the possible human health effects of insulation products, includes human exposure studies, worker health studies, research with laboratory animals, and fiber biosolubility studies.

Health and Safety Partnership Program

NAIMA’s Health and Safety Partnership program is a voluntary program for worker protection developed jointly by NAIMA, OSHA and key stakeholders.

NAIMA's Health and Safety Partnership Program (HSPP)

Health & Safety Literature

Research on Fiber Glass and Rock and Slag Wool

Safety of Fiber Glass Insulation

Safety of Rock and Slag Wool Insulation

Play it Smart, Play it Safe - DVD (English/Spanish)

This worker training tool is a 15-minute DVD designed to provide important information in a fun and entertaining way to contractors and workers who handle fiber glass, rock and slag wool (synthetic vitreous fiber) insulation products.

In a press release announcing the updated report IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, Volume 81, Man-Made Vitreous Fibres, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) stated that:

"Epidemiologic studies published during the 15 years since the previous IARC Monographs review of these fibres in 1988 provide no evidence of increased risks of lung cancer or of mesothelioma (cancer of the lining of the body cavities) from occupational exposures during manufacture of these materials, and inadequate evidence overall of any cancer risk." IARC further stated that "the more commonly used vitreous fibre wools including insulation glass wool, rock (stone) wool and slag wool are now considered not classifiable as to carcinogenicity to humans (Group 3)."

For more information about the IARC decision, click here.