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IOHA Webinar: Beryllium

The Beryllium Health and Safety Committee (BHSC) promotes activities/efforts that help people better understand and prevent beryllium-induced conditions and illnesses, including  Beryllium Sensitization (BeS) and Chronic Beryllium Disease (CBD). Such illnesses may be caused or exacerbated by workplace exposure to beryllium.

The BHSC mission is primarily educational in nature, and is accomplished through generation, collection and dissemination of information to members and other interested parties.   The subjects discussed cover the following and more:  Promoting the safe use of beryllium; Obtaining a better understanding of exposure risks; Improving exposure monitoring; Fostering improved controls; Accumulating and disseminating information concerning beryllium process best work practices, as well as, data from health studies concerning the hazards associated with beryllium; Training / mentoring of beryllium health professionals; Identifying and promoting research that has the potential to enhance or improve our worker safety programs.

For this webinar, the BHSC Leadership Team will briefly chronicle the more than 30 years of BHSC achievements and milestones since its formal inception in 1995.  Furthermore, this webinar will highlight recent BHSC Meetings, research publications, and active involvement in developing safe practices for characterized beryllium hazards as well as for  emergent technologies involving the use of soluble beryllium molten salts (FLiBe) for fission and fusion  nuclear operations.

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