The Defense Occupational and Environmental Health Readiness System-Industrial Hygiene (DOEHRS-IH)
******Safety Does DOEHRS-IH*****
Interview between Army Institute of Public Health Industrial Hygienist (AIPH-IH) and TARDEC Safety Office, Warren, MI.
AIPH-IH: How did you learn about DOEHRS?
TARDEC-Safety: While taking the Basic Industrial Hygiene course at Fort Sam Houston AMEDD Center and School, the instructors brought it up during one of the lessons. The ability to apply and analyze data interested me because it had immediate applications back in Detroit as we responded to safety and health issues in our facilities.
AIPH-IH: What inspired you to implement DOEHRS with your team?
TARDEC-Safety: The Detroit Arsenal is a small installation and thus we are only allocated one IH. With TARDEC alone having over 1 million square feet of research and lab space our IH needed help. The previous history of IH sampling, surveys and baselines was not as comprehensive as needed. We didn't want this for just the compliance perspective, our customers want to be assured they are working safe and this is one way we knew we could respond.
AIPH-IH: What functions in DOEHRS are of most interest to you and your team?
TARDEC-Safety: First and foremost is DOEHRS' ability to document and track hazards in our labs. In research we are ever changing thus the ability to start and stop processes and exposures. Second, is the adaptability...we have requested the SASOHI be added as a Master Schedule Task Pick List. We also were very interested in the Equipment module that allows us to monitor use, costs, and calibration of survey meters and sampling equipment. These features allow us the ability to provide justifications for our time and expenditures when preparing annual budgets and appraisals.
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If you are an industrial hygiene (IH) program manager and/or preventive medicine personnel who is responsible for completing the mandatory ACSIM Installation Status Report (ISR) and the AMEDD Command Management System (CMS), this task has gotten easier.
Now the IH metrics for these quarterly data calls are automatically collected from the DOEHRS-IH for the previous quarter.
Collection dates for the ISR and CMS 2010 are 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December.
You will not enter data locally for the IH metrics listed in the table below.
You will be able to review, but not modify, the data.
You will be able to enter comments to the ISR, but not to the CMS.
It is vital that your DOEHRS-IH data is current and accurate.
If you need assistance in upgrading your skills in DOEHRS data collection and entry, a monthly training session is regularly scheduled for the last Thursday of each month, with the exception of November and December.
For these two months, the refresher is held on the 3rd Thursday.
The DOEHRS-IH Refresher Training is announced well in advance to DOEHRS-IH account holders.
In addition, the metric lists the DOEHRS-IH data fields that should be completed to provide data for each metric.
The ISR, CMS, and DOEHRS-IH are all Army mandated systems that support Presidential Directives and Army Regulations.
· For more information on the ISR, visit:
https://isrtrain.hqda.pentagon.mil/isr/ISRMainAKO (AKO) 
· For more information on the CMS, visit:
https://cms.mods.army.mil/CMS/ (login required)
Army IHs are tasked to anticipate, recognize, evaluate, and control occupational health hazards at medical treatment facilities and installations worldwide.
In order to accomplish these tasks, an IH conducts evaluations or surveys at the workplace operations to determine the employees’ (both military and civilian) potential exposures to chemical, physical, biological, and ergonomics hazards.
The information that is gathered during these evaluations, including worker exposure monitoring results, is entered into the DOEHRS-IH.
This database collection system is used throughout the DoD.
DOEHRS-IH records contain a history of individual worker pre-deployment, deployment, and post-deployment exposures.
The data can then be analyzed and utilized by environmental, safety and occupational health practitioners to prioritize preventive medicine actions.
This includes a baseline to facilitate exposure-based medical surveillance and post-deployment follow-up, allocation of resources, implementation of controls, and development of appropriate training programs.
All these actions enhance combat readiness by focusing efforts to reduce workplace exposures, illnesses, and injuries.
DoD IH Exposure Assessment Model and DOEHRS-IH
The data collection modules in the DOEHRS-IH are based on an IH exposure assessment model developed by the DoD IH Working Group.
This model describes an 8-step exposure assessment strategy for use by field-level IHs to collect and evaluate IH exposure data throughout DoD.
The model applies to IH risk assessments performed on DoD operations ranging from peacetime fixed facilities to military field deployments and afloat, and for exposures ranging from repetitive industrial maintenance operations to one-time exposures to ambient chemical, biological, and physical stresses.
Please review the PowerPoint presentation for a snapshot of the 
DoD Exposure Assessment Model.
IH Metrics
| 4 |
Of the breathing zone samples with inhalation hazards that exceeded OEL, including: TWA, STEL, or Ceiling Limit; the percentage that have no associated controls reported in Defense Occupational Health readiness System. Industrial Hygiene (DOEHRS-IH). |
Breathing Zone samples above Occupational Exposure Limit (OEL), with no controls. |
Breathing Zone samples above Occupational Exposure Limit (OEL). |
[nominator/
denominator]*100 |
0% up to 20%; |
Greater than 20% up to 40% |
Greater than 40% up to 99.9% |
100% |
| 5 |
Of the personal noise dosimetry samples with steady-state noise exposures that are equal to or greater than a Time-Weighted Average (TWA) of 85 dBA or above; the percentage that have no associated controls reported in DOEHRS-IH. |
Number of Personal Noise Dosimetry samples >= 85 dBA with no controls. |
Number of Personal Noise Dosimetry samples >= 85 dBA. |
[nominator/
denominator]*100 |
0% up to 20%; |
Greater than 20% up to 40% |
Greater than 40% up to 99.9% |
100% |
| 6 |
Of the noise sound level samples with impulse noise exposures equal to or greater than 140 decibels, peak measurement (dBP); the percentage that have no associated controls reported in DOEHRS-IH. |
Number of Noise Sound Level samples >= 140 dBP with no controls. |
Number of Noise Sound Level samples >= 140 dBP. |
[nominator/
denominator]*100 |
0% up to 20%; |
Greater than 20% up to 40% |
Greater than 40% up to 99.9% |
100% |
| 7 |
Of the noise sound level samples with impulse noise exposures equal to or greater than 140 decibels, peak measurement (dBP), that are not controlled; the percentage that are reported in DOEHRS-IH as recommended for control. |
Number of Noise Sound Level samples >= 140 dBP not controlled, that are recommended for control. |
Number of Noise Sound Level samples >= 140 dBP not controlled. |
[nominator/
denominator]*100 |
100% down to 80% |
Less than 80% down to 60% |
Less than 60% down to 1% |
0% |
| 8 |
Of the breathing zone samples with inhalation hazards that exceeded OEL, including: TWA, Short-Term Exposure Limit (STEL), or Ceiling Limit, that are not controlled; the percentage that are reported in DOEHRS-IH as recommended for control. |
Number of Breathing Zone samples above Occupational Exposure Limit (OEL) not controlled, that are recommended for control. |
Number of Breathing Zone samples above Occupational Exposure Limit (OEL) not controlled. |
[nominator/
denominator]*100 |
100% down to 80% |
Less than 80% down to 60% |
Less than 60% down to 1% |
0% |
| 9 |
Of the personal noise dosimetry samples with steady-state noise exposures equal to or greater than a TWA of 85 dBA, that are not controlled; the percentage that are reported in DOEHRS-IH as recommended for control. |
Number of Personal Noise Dosimetry samples >= 85 dBA not controlled, that are recommended for control. |
Number of Personal Noise Dosimetry samples >= 85 dBA not controlled. |
[nominator/
denominator]*100 |
100% down to 80% |
Less than 80% down to 60% |
Less than 60% down to 1% |
0% |
| 10 |
Percentage of DOEHRS-IH Priority 1 shops for which at least one Master Schedule task has been completed in the past 12 months. |
Total number of DOEHRS-IH shops coded as Priority 1 which have at least one task performed in the past 12 months. |
Total number of DOEHRS-IH shops coded as Priority 1. |
[nominator/
denominator]*100 |
100% down to 80% |
Less than 80% down to 60% |
Less than 60% down to 1% |
0% |
| 11 |
Percentage of installation personnel assigned a Shop Priority Code in DOEHRS-IH. |
Number of personnel (DoD ID) assigned DOEHRS-IH priority code. |
Total number of personnel (DoD ID) in installation UIC list. |
[nominator/
denominator]*100 |
100% down to 80% |
Less than 80% down to 60% |
Less than 60% down to 1% |
0% |