More information on beryllium exposure:Web Resources: DOE: Beryllium Exposure Studies and Testing The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education beryllium web site. ORISE is an official DOE ...

The rule to lower permissible workplace exposure to beryllium is undergoing changes in a White House review, Occupational Safety and Health Administration deputy director for standards and guidance ...

In its final rule to protect workers from beryllium exposure, OSHA has reduced the PEL for beryllium to 0.2 micrograms per cubic meter of air, averaged over eight hours, and established a new ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a final rule “to prevent chronic beryllium disease and lung cancer” in workers by limiting their exposure to beryllium and beryllium ...

The OSHA workers were likely exposed to the widely used metal while conducting safety inspections. The troubling revelation that some OSHA employees have tested positive for beryllium-related blood ...

Ending decades of denial and inaction, the federal government on Friday issued a tough new exposure standard for one of the most unusual and deadly occupational risks U.S. workers have ever faced: the ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Beryllium is an important metal that is used in a number of industries—including the ...

A federal agency on Friday proposed a tenfold reduction in a standard to protect beryllium workers, such as those who worked in a Hazleton-area plant a generation ago, from a debilitating and ...

(CN) - The 5th Circuit affirmed dismissal of a lawsuit over Stennis Space Center employees' alleged exposure to beryllium, ruling that "(e)xposure to a potentially harmful substance does not in itself ...

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