Creation of a Dose Reconstruction Organization

Details

• Personal Author:
  Toohey RE
• Description:
  Upon award of the NIOSH dose reconstruction project, ORAU and its partners, MJW Corporation and Dade Moeller and Associates, Inc., began to build a machine capable of completing in excess of 8,000 dose reconstructions per year. In addition to the dose reconstructions themselves, the ORAU Team also has to create and manage computer databases, receive and review individual monitoring records, perform dose reconstruction research, conduct telephone interviews with claimants, and provide technical and administrative support to NIOSH. Based on our proposal, we established six task groups, each of which includes health physicists with specific experience in occupational dosimetry or closely related fields. Management challenges have included creating a fifty-person facility in Cincinnati from scratch, implementing a conflict-of-interest management plan, developing a comprehensive quality assurance program, changing the typical dosimetrist mind-set, and finding health physicists with good "people" skills. Lessons learned include the needs to plan for expansion (and contraction) in all areas, maintain centralized control over decentralized execution, build defensibility into every process, and develop openness and transparency to address stakeholders' concerns. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Decision Making Environmental Monitoring Nuclear Power Plants Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Quality Control Radiation Radiation Dosimeters Safety Software
• Keywords:
  Computer-models Computer-software Decision-making Dose-response Dosimetry Employee-exposure Exposure-assessment Health-physicists Information-retrieval-systems Management-personnel Mathematical-models Nuclear-energy Nuclear-radiation Quality-control Task-performance

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• ISSN:
  0017-9078
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary ; Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 4 ; Tennessee
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  84
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20032211
• Citation:
  Health Phys 2003 Jun; 84(Suppl):S210-S211
• Contact Point Address:
  Oak Ridge Associated Universities, P.O. Box 117, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2003
• Performing Organization:
  Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Health Physics
• Supplement:
  Suppl
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/186249/cdc_186249_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 379.37 KB ]