Implementation of Co-Worker Models for the Reconstruction of Dose Under an Occupational Radiation Exposure Compensation Program

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• Personal Author:
  Neton JW
• Description:
  Under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA), the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) completes dose reconstructions for employees with cancer who are covered under the provisions of the Act. While the use of individual personnel monitoring is preferred in the completion of dose reconstructions, these data are often not available because either the worker was monitored and the data have been lost or the worker was potentially exposed and not monitored. In the absence of individual monitoring data, the implementing Federal regulation allows for the use of co-worker monitoring data to complete dose reconstructions. Co-workers are considered to be workers at the same site whose radiation monitoring measurements are considered to be representative or plausibly bounding of those received by one or more workers with no individual monitoring data. For dose reconstructions under EEOICPA, it is often difficult to locate a worker in a specific job at a specific location. Because of this, NIOSH has chosen to develop co-worker models that whenever possible cover a wide range of workers for a specific radionuclide at a specific time. To ensure that these models adequately represent the exposures of the unmonitored workers, NIOSH has defined a set of criteria that must be evaluated before personnel monitoring data can be used in a co-worker model. Among these criteria are: 1) the adequacy and completeness of the coworker dataset; 2) the comparability of the monitoring program types; and, 3) the applicability of the data to the population being reconstructed, including the type of work activity and temporal similarity. The implementation of the above criteria to sites covered under EEOICP A are discussed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Co-worker Dose Reconstruction Exposure Assessment
• ISBN:
  9780998966632
• Publisher:
  The International Radiation Protection Association
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DCAS - Division of Compensation Analysis and Support
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20050937
• Citation:
  Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of the International Radiation Protection Association, May 9-13, 2016, Cape Town, South Africa. Clement C; Valentin J; Ogino H; Foote D; Reyjal J; Omar-Nazir L, eds. The International Radiation Protection Association, 2017 Nov; 3:1196-1203
• Contact Point Address:
  James W. Neton, U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Office of Compensation Analysis and Support, 1150 Tusculum Avenue, MS C-46, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226
• Email:
  jneton@cdc.gov
• Editor(s):
  Clement C; Valentin J; Ogino H; Foote D; Reyjal J; Omar-Nazir L
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of the International Radiation Protection Association, May 9-13, 2016, Cape Town, South Africa
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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