Occupational Medicine
The DOE Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program is rooted in the belief
that an active alliance between site occupational and environmental medicine
programs and DOE leadership can have a dramatic impact on individual worker
health and on environmental factors that affect the health of the entire DOE
workforce. To facilitate this relationship, a Steering Committee of DOE site
occupational medical directors (SOMD) communicates regularly with DOE HQ
leadership. The SOMDs also meet regularly as a subgroup of the Integrated
Safety Management (ISM) Working Group-Occupational Safety and Health Subgroup
of the Energy Facility Contractors Group (EFCOG).
The Office of Health and Safety develops and implements occupational and
environmental medicine policies and standards that facilitate the provision
of high-quality occupational and environmental medicine services.
Since the inception of the Manhattan Project, the DOE occupational and
environmental medicine program has provided on-the-job health care and risk
assessment to more than 600,000 workers, ensuring that the Nation's nuclear
workers are protected from both the hazards of building and maintaining the
nuclear weapons stockpile, as well as dangers of research and development
activities in the vanguard of science, such as nanotechnology and genomics.
A major goal of the DOE occupational and environmental medicine program
over the next few years, is full implementation of occupational and
environmental regulations in 10 CFR 851
Worker Safety and Health Program, including the achievement of interoperable
electronic medical records systems at all site occupational medicine programs
within 10 years.
Chief Medical Officer: Michael Ardaiz, MD MPH CPH
Program Manager: Claudia Beach, RN BA COHN-S
This page was last updated on April 07, 2009
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