Occupational Safety and Health: Government Responses to Beryllium Uses and Risks : Report to Congressional Requesters |
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Page 20 - The Honorable Christopher Shays Chairman Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations Committee on Government Reform House of Representatives...
Page 10 - Committee to the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Page 10 - Federal representatives, including one from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
Page 9 - Currently the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under the Department of Health and Human Services.
Page 8 - The US Public Health Service is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, the major health agency of the federal government.
Page 9 - OSHA standards of 50 micrograms of lead per cubic meter of air based on an 8-hour time weighted average at the work place promise to force secondary lead smelters out of business.
Page 6 - Beginning in the 1940s, scientists linked exposure to beryllium with an inflammatory lung condition now called chronic beryllium disease, which is often debilitating and, in some cases, fatal.
Page 8 - Director of Defense Research and Engineering to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and Development. The subject of the memorandum was "Proposed Initiation of an Analysis of Optimal AircraftMissile Evasion Tactics.
Page 16 - This rule on chronic beryllium disease prevention applies to federal, contractor, and subcontractor employees at...
Page 17 - Individuals removed from beryllium work must be provided the opportunity to transfer to other work for which they are qualified or can be trained in a short period.