Remediation workers' exposure assessment feasibility study at the Department of Energy's Rocky Flats Site, Phase I.

Details

• Personal Author:
  Back DA ; Stevens GW
• Description:
  The focus of this study is on Remediation Workers at the United States Department of Energy's (DOE) Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site (RFETS) with regard to past, present and proposed future worker group activities, exposures, demographics and technologies. Unlike most previous DOE related epidemiological studies which have focused on historical worker exposure data, this study addresses historic (July 1989 to present), present (November 1996 - November 1997) and proposed (November 1997 and beyond) Remediation Worker group exposure data. In many cases, accelerated clean up schedules are planned for DOE sites across the country with the intention of site remediation within the scope of ten years or less. These worker groups, which might encounter hazards that their predecessors (i.e., production workers) were not exposed to, may vanish upon completion of these tasks. The first phase of this study will address, identify and summarize documentation regarding this work force for use as a foundation upon which further studies will be built. During the course of this study the partnership agreement between the DOE and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), as described in the December 24, 1990 (renewed in 1996) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between these two agencies, has been tested in terms of gathering the necessary worker group data for this study.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Dust Environmental Monitoring Epidemiology Lung Diseases Occupational Health Respiratory Tract Diseases Risk Assessment Safety Silicon Dioxide
• Keywords:
  Hazardous-materials Hazardous-waste-cleanup Occupational-exposure Radioactive-contamination Radioactive-wastes Region-8 Risk-analysis Waste-disposal Waste-treatment
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Final Contract Report ; Memorandum of Understanding
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-174
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028930
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Contract 200-92-2559, Contract 200-98-2006, 1998 Jan; :1-174
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Performing Organization:
  TRI-S Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio. Dynamic Science Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19901224
• End Date:
  20001224
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7e90aae0894bcdb71f5ec5e0709b3dfb4c1c928b9c21e42d8198b33ccb53aec9e369a340785c17f2f91dc824cda130e6b2fcf8dbb4552ed5c0ed10bd8674feb1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181371/cdc_181371_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.74 MB ]