Development of Methods to Estimate Beryllium Exposure

Details

• Personal Author:
  Rice CH
• Description:
  This project was designed to access data, provide preliminary exposure rankings, and delineate the process for detailing retrospective exposure assessments for beryllium (7440417) among workers at processing facilities. A literature review was conducted, and walk through surveys were conducted at two facilities still in operation. More than 8,000 environmental records were entered into a computer file. Descriptive statistics were then generated and the process of rank ordering exposures across facilities was begun. In efforts to formulate crude indices of exposure, job titles of persons in the NIOSH mortality study were reviewed and categorized for any beryllium exposure, chemical form of beryllium exposure, and exposure to acid mists. Daily Weighted Average exposure estimates were reviewed by job title, across all facilities. The mean exposure at each facility was calculated. The strategy which was developed for retrospective exposure assessment was described. Tasks included determination of the usefulness of the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation files; cataloging the numbers of samples available from company sources; investigating data holdings at Oak Ridge National Laboratory; and obtaining records from the Department of Energy Library. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Beryllium Epidemiology Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Beryllium-compounds Beryllium-disease Employee-exposure Grants-other NIOSH-Grant
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-135
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00182745
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB89-129886
• Citation:
  Department of Environmental Health, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1988 Jun; :1-135
• Contact Point Address:
  Entomology and Parasitology University of Cincinnati 3223 Eden Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45267-0056
• CAS Registry Number:
  Beryllium (CAS RN 7440-41-7)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1988
• NORA Priority Area:
  Other Occupational Concerns ; Grants Other
• Performing Organization:
  University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19870401
• Source Full Name:
  Department of Environmental Health, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
• End Date:
  19880630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:dcf379b12263b0fe873a286c8acfee709651f63621e12aed8568c71a3bc2bbe54672e8758339c0723a8db69c50f0d05ed2fd3c760090fb11dd19db5106b6b88d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/217745/cdc_217745_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.94 MB ]