What a Claimant Should Know About Radiation Dose Reconstruction

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  The purpose of this fact sheet is to explain dose reconstruction and its role in the compensation program. If this fact does not answer your question on dose reconstruction, please feel free to contact the Office of Compensation Analysis and Support (OCAS) at 513-841-4498 (toll-free at 1-800-35-NIOSH or 1-800-356-4674) or by e-mail at ocas@cdc.gov. Dose reconstructions are used to estimate the radiation dose to which an individual worker or group of workers have been exposed, particularly when radiation monitoring data are unavailable, incomplete, or of poor quality. NIOSH will reconstruct radiation doses by evaluation all appropriate data relevant to the energy employee's radiation exposure [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Radiation Safety
• Keywords:
  Dose-response Ionizing-radiation Nonionizing-radiation Radiation-exposure
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2002138
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OCAS - Office of Compensation Analysis and Support
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20022127
• 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, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2002-138, 2002 Jan; :1-2
• Contact Point Address:
  NIOSH; Office of Compenstion Analysis and Support; 4676 Columbia Parkway, MS R-45; Cincinnati, Ohio 45226
• Email:
  ocas@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2002
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/209838/cdc_209838_DS1.pdf
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