Symposium on Monitoring, Recording, and Tracking Worker Exposure during Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Activities

 

9/10/97

Current Practice

7:30 - 8:30 Registration, Continental breakfast
8:30 - 9 Welcome (M Edelson, Ames);
Opening Remarks (M Mathamel, DOE-EH)
9 - 10:00 Plenary talk: Worker concerns/historical perspectives
(J. Moran, International Union of Operating Engineers)
10 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - noon Panel: When do we monitor the site worker and why?
[MaryAnn Garrahan (OSHA); Gary Johnson (Lawyer); Bill Kojola (Laborers' Health and Safety Fund); Sam Nelson (MidAmerican Energy Co.)]
Moderator: Bill Pemberton (BNL)
Noon - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:30 Panel: Assessment of current worker monitoring practices
[Joseph Spurgeon (EPA); MaryAnn Garrahan (OSHA); Virginia Lew (LLNL); Mary Lynne Thomas (NRC); Vernon McDougal, United Brotherhood of Carpenters]
Moderator: L.P. Singh (DOE-SR)
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5 Plenary talk: DOE EM Worker Health and Safety Program
(C. O'Dell, EM-4)
5 - 5:45 Summary and open discussion (Obtain volunteers for final panel)
6 - 9 Reception

 

9/11/97

Science & Technology Issues

7:30 - 8:30 Continental breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 Plenary talk: Current exposure assessment technology
R Curtis (OSHA)
9:30 - 10:30 Plenary talk: Assessment of radiation exposure monitoring technology
T Buhl (LANL)
10:30 - 11 Break
11 - Noon Plenary talk: Exposure Interactions
B.K. Nelson (NIOSH)
Noon - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:30 Panel: Interpreting and applying the data
[Bill Pemberton (BNL); Norman Beddows (EPA Region I); Johanshir Golchin (Iowa DNR); Steven Ahrenholz (NIOSH)]
Moderator: N Giardino (USAF)
3:30 - 4 Break
4 - 5 Plenary lecture: Tracking exposure: current practice and needs
N Giardino/C Wilkes (USAF)

 

9/12/97

The People Speak

7:30 - 8:30 Continental breakfast
8:30 - 10:30 Panel: What does the future hold in store?
[James Melius, MD (NYS Laborers Health and Safety Fund); Steve Mallinger (OSHA); Dan Kerlinsky (Phys. for Social Responsibility); Rick Minard (Nat. Academy of Public Administration); Rob Woodard (Canberra)]
Moderator - Sam Nelson (MidAmerican Energy Co.)
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45 - Noon Panel session: The audience's turn
[Mike Pilo (LMITCO), N. Beddows (EPA, Region 1), Mary Lynne Thomas
(NRC), Dan Kerlinsky (Phys. for Social Responsibility)]
Moderator - Martin Edelson (Ames Laboratory)
Noon - 1 Plenary lecture: Medical monitoring: Health Implications of Off-site Exposures
Michael Gochfeld, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Univ. of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
1 - 1:30 SSG final words & adjournment
Dennis Berry, Sandia National Laboratories

Last modified: 15 December 1999 by dave eckels
Final Agenda: risk/agenda.html