# Presentation: 578212

## BERYLLIUM HEALTH RISK COMMUNICATION AT Y-12 NATIONAL SECURITY COMPLEX

**James L. Jenkins, Jr. CIH**
**B&W Y-12**
**Environment, Safety & Health Division**
**Industrial Hygiene Organization**
**March 6, 2008**

## Disclaimer

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## Copyright Notice

- This document has been authored by a subcontractor of the U. S. Government under contract DE-AC05-00OR-22800. Accordingly, the U.S. Government retains a paid-up, nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this contribution, prepare derivative works, distribute copies to the public, and perform publicly and display publicly, or allow others to do so, for U. S. Government purposes.

## Risk Communication

- Risk  - the possibility of suffering harm or loss; 		    uncertain danger; hazard
- a science-based approach for communicating effectively in
- high concern and low trust situations
- sensitive or controversial situations
- goals
- create trust and credibility
- produce an informed audience
- build confidence

## Influencing Perspective

- Training
- workplace
- seminars
- conferences
- work shops
- Other Factors
- friends/associates*******
- books
- television
- newspapers
- magazines
- reports
- presentations
- internet

## Beryllium Risk Situation

- BeLPT
- identifies people at elevated risk of developing chronic beryllium disease (CBD)
- Issue
- increase in number of 1st time abnormal BeLPT

## Employee Concerns

- Am I safe?
- What caused this?
- Can it be fixed?

## Concerns Addressed

- Communication on BeLPT Issue
- examination of concerns
- determination of cause
- information briefings
- individual communication sessions with Medical
- daily e-mail updates.

## Risk Communication Training

- Risk Communication Training for Industrial Hygienists
- STARCC Principle
- Simple
- Timely
- Accurate
- Relevant
- Credible
- Consistent

## Improvement

- Communication Tool
- communicate beryllium risk over the long term
- easy access to beryllium information
- understandable format
- provide up to date information soon as available
- communicate effectively and efficiently
- sponsored by an established information source

## Risk Communication

## Beryllium Support Group

- Beryllium Support Group (BSG)
- established in 1995 to provide information and support to workers and former workers with CBD or BeS
- facilitated by B&W Y-12 Psychologist
- presentations at twice monthly meetings by subject matter experts

## Beryllium Issues Steering Committee

- established to provide senior management attention to BSG issues and facilitate communication between the BSG and B&W Y-12 Management
- resolve BSG issues in a timely and consistent manner.
- Committee Members are:
- Deputy General Manager
- ES&H Division Director
- Chief Legal Counsel
- Industrial Hygiene Manager
- Medical Director
- Human Capital Division Director
- Clinical Psychologist
- BSG Chair and Vice-Chair

## Beryllium Communicator

- Access
- open access to beryllium data and information
- available through Y-12 Intranet “YSource”
- Effective streamlined communication
- an easy to use, web-based tool resource
- developed for site employees
- reliable data worthy of confidence
- educates to locations of individual interest
- Reference tool
- project planning
- Job Hazard Analysis
- Infrastructure Reduction
- operations
- workplace management

## Beryllium Communicator - Contents

- Fact Sheets
- summary of:
- historical use; past operations
- sampling records
- posted areas; current operations
- Graphic Building Drawings
- building drawings depicting locations of beryllium associated areas
- Beryllium Inventory Report
- current validated list of areas by location, area type, and beryllium area identification number
- Industrial Hygiene Sampling Reports
- personal air
- area air
- surface
- Routine Housekeeping Sampling Reports
- visually track routine housekeeping samples

## Beryllium Communicator Homepage

- 1021	  View	         View		         View	                     View	       	    View
- 1034	  View	         View		         View	                      View		     View
- 1034-1	  View	         View		         View	                      View
- 1545-2	  View			         View	                      View		     View
- 1580				         View	                      View		     View
- 1581	  View	      		         View	                      View		     View
- 1600	  View			         View	                      View		     View
- 2037	  View	        View		         View	                      View

**B&W Beryllium Communicator**

- Contact your Industrial Hygiene representative if you need assistance interpreting the data or have questions regarding its completeness.

- --Select---
- 1st Floor
- 2nd Floor
- 3rd Floor

- _YSource_ .  _IH_  .  _CBDPP_  .  _Be Communicator Home_  .  _Be MSDS Search_  .  _Building Manager List_  .  _IH Field Contacts_

## Facility Beryllium Fact Sheet

- Nature of Operations

**PAST OPERATIONS**

-          Beryllium Brought into Facility		Form of Beryllium
- Period of Beryllium Operations		Start		End
- Description of Beryllium Operations;

**CURRENT OPERATIONS**
-           Building Still Present               Beryllium Present

- Current Building Occupancy/Activity

## Drawings: Beryllium Associated Areas

## Beryllium Inventory

- Active Beryllium Operational Areas		As of 1/3/2008
**Building Area****	****1545-2**
***Area******	******	******Subarea******	******	******Area Type******	******	******Area ID No.***
- 1st Floor		Room 159		Regulated		Be-168
- 1st Floor		Room 160		Beryllium		Be-169
- 2nd Floor		Room 231		Storage		Be-300
- 2nd Floor		Col A4 – C4	Storage		Be-134
- 2nd Floor		Room 235		Beryllium		Be-118
- 3rd Floor		Room 312		Storage		Be-301

## Building Sampling

## Area Housekeeping Sampling

-  **LOCATION:**  *1545-2 SECOND FLOOR, Machining Area (Boundary B103)*

- Be-118

- Rm 235

- Be-134

**10**

**1**

- Smear Surveys      (Last 5 surveys, 12 max)
- _1/20/2007_       _12/20/2007 _     _11/15/2007    _  10/17/2007       9/15/2007

**B&W Beryllium Communicator**

- Contact your Industrial Hygiene representative if you need assistance interpreting the data or have questions regarding its completeness.

- _YSource_ .  _IH_  .  _CBDPP_  .  _Be Communicator Home_  .  _Be MSDS Search_  .  _Building Manager List_  .  _IH Field Contacts_

- Personal Air Sampling Outside Be Operational Area
- No Airborne Detectable :			2          Detectable below Action Level :		                          0            Detectable above the Action Level: 		0

- Area Air Sampling
- Detectable above the No Airborne Detectable	                  45	            Detectable below Action Level	Action Level    	                   0            .

- DOE and Y-12 Action Level = 0.2 ug/m3   OSHA limit 2.0 ug/m3

- Airborne beryllium for last 24 months

- 		2 total results				       45 total results

- ***No airborne beryllium detected***
- ***This area meets OSHA, DOE and Y-12 requirements for airborne beryllium***

## BWXTymes and YSource Article

- Improvements made to Y-12’s beryllium program *(09/26/2007)*
- according to the Beryllium Support Group chairman," The ‘Beryllium Communicator’ is a giant step forward in providing every employee at Y‐12 access to the most current data available on where beryllium is known to be present in the plant. The interactive database contains information on Y‐12 buildings and links to other key information.”