Beryllium Exposure Studies and Testing -
DOE Beryllium Registry for Active Workers
The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) maintains a Beryllium Registry of active workers for DOE’s Office of Environmental Health (EH). ORISE collects data from 18 reporting DOE sites on nearly 30,000 workers and checks the data for errors. Almost 370,000 records have been loaded into registry since its inception in 2002. Reports are also provided to the reporting site and to EH staff on the condition of the data.
The enactment of 10 CFR 850, Chronic Beryllium Disease Prevention Program; Final Rule in December 1999 mandated this Beryllium Registry. These current workers have been identified as beryllium workers, beryllium-associated workers, or were self-identified.
The rule addresses the uncertainty concerning the degree of protection provided by exposure limits. To help reduce this uncertainty, the rule requires reporting of data that will allow for epidemiologic analyses of exposure and health outcome data.
The DOE Beryllium Registry facilitates the electronic reporting of an encrypted identifier, date of birth, gender, site, job history, medical screening test results, exposure measurements, and results of diagnostic evaluations for each designated worker employed at DOE sites.
