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Managing Health Effects of Beryllium Exposure, Paperback / softback Book

Managing Health Effects of Beryllium Exposure Paperback / softback

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Beryllium is a lightweight metal that is used for its exceptional strength and high heat-absorbing capability.

Beryllium and its alloys can be found in many important technologies in the defense and aeronautics industries, such as nuclear devices, satellite systems, radar systems, and aircraft bushings and bearings. Pulmonary disease associated with exposure to beryllium has been recognized and studied since the early 1940s, and an occupational guideline for limiting exposure to beryllium has been in place since 1949.

Over the last few decades, much has been learned about chronic beryllium disease and factors that contribute to its occurrence in exposed people.

Despite reduced workplace exposure, chronic beryllium disease continues to occur.

Those developments have led to debates about the adequacy of the long-standing occupational exposure limit for protecting worker health. This book, requested by the U.S. Air Force to help to determine the steps necessary to protect its workforce from the effects of beryllium used in military aerospace applications, reviews the scientific literature on beryllium and outlines an exposure and disease management program for its protecting workers. Table of ContentsFront MatterManaging Health Effects of Beryllium ExposureSummary1 Introduction2 Exposure Assessment3 Epidemiologic and Clinical Studies of Beryllium Sensitization andChronic Beryllium Disease4 Mechanisms, Genetic Factors, and Animal Models of ChronicBeryllium Disease5 Genotoxicity and Carcinogenicity6 Assessment of Other Health End Points7 Designing a Beryllium Exposure and Disease-Management Program forWorkers in the Air ForceReferencesAppendix A: Biographic Information on the Committee on BerylliumAlloy ExposuresAppendix B: Air Force Beryllium Program Clinical Decision Logic

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