Rocky Flats Beryllium Health Surveillance.

Rocky Flats Beryllium Health Surveillance.

The Rocky Flats Beryllium Health Surveillance Program (BHSP), initiated in June 1991, was designed to provide medical surveillance for current and former employees exposed to beryllium. The BHSP identifies individuals who have developed beryllium sensitivity using the beryllium lymphocyte proliferation test (BeLPT). A detailed medical evaluation to determine the prevalence of chronic beryllium ...

Chronic beryllium disease and cancer risk estimates with uncertainty for beryllium released to the air from the Rocky Flats Plant.

Beryllium was released into the air from routine operations and three accidental fires at the Rocky Flats Plant (RFP) in Colorado from 1958 to 1989. We evaluated environmental monitoring data and developed estimates of airborne concentrations and their uncertainties and calculated lifetime cancer risks and risks of chronic beryllium disease to hypothetical receptors. This article discusses expo...

Retrospective beryllium exposure assessment at the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site.

The purpose of this study was to determine how two types of sampling data could be used for an exposure assessment in a beryllium shop at the Department of Energy's Rocky Flats Plant. Beryllium exposure was assessed via fixed airhead (FAH) sampling, in which the filter cassette was affixed to the machine, generally within a few feet of the worker's breathing zone. Approximately 500,000 FAH samp...

Research on Adverse Health Effects Related to Rocky Flats

Voelz et al. conducted a study of 7,112 white male workers employed at Rocky Flats between 1952 and 1979. Deaths in workers were compared with those in the U.S. white male population. Fewer deaths were observed than expected based on rates in the U.S. population from most causes. The only cause of death significantly elevated in these workers was brain cancers. There were eight deaths in the Ro...

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