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Home / Health / Occupational Health and Safety / Hazardous Substances / Beryllium
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- American Metal Market - Beryllium Profile - Metal Statistics '99 beryllium profile at AMM.com. This is an international daily news service covering the metals and recycling industries.
www.amm.com/ref/beryl.HTM
- ARC Anticipated Carcinogens:Beryllium and Certain Berryllium Compounds - Information and fact sheet from the National Institute of Health.
ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/htdocs/ARC/ARC_RAC/Beryllium&cmpds.html
- Beryllium - Beryllium is a toxic substance that can be harmful, depending on the amount and duration of exposure. (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environment, Safety and Health)
tis.eh.doe.gov/be/webdoc1.html-ssi
- Beryllium and Compounds - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fact sheet on hazards from beryllium exposure.
www.epa.gov/ttnuatw1/hlthef/berylliu.html
- Beryllium Disease Prevention Program - Resources, program information and FAQs from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
www.llnl.gov/Be-prevention/home.html
- Beryllium Facts - Information from the manufacturer Brush Wellman about beryllium, chronic beryllium disease, and what is being done about it.
www.befacts.com
- Beryllium Handling Procedures - Standard procedures for beryllium operations from the PISCES laboratory area, UCSD.
cerfe.ucsd.edu/beryllium/bersop.html
- Beryllium Support Group - Support group for chronic beryllium disease.
www.dimensional.com/~mhj/index.html
- Chronic Beryllium Disease Prevention Program - U.S. Department of Energy information on disease preventive workshops.
tis.eh.doe.gov/be
- Eco-USA: Beryllium - Toxicological profile of beryllium, including information on environmental fate and transport, exposure pathways, metabolism, and health effects.
www.eco-usa.net/toxics/berylium.shtml
- Environ Health Perspect 102-6-7, 1994: Beryllium: A Chronic Problem - Discusses uses of beryllium in industry, chronic beryllium disease, genetic testing for beryllium disease, and the incidence of the disease in the workforce.
ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1994/102-6-7/focus.html
- Facts About Beryllium Disease - Fact sheet by National Jewish Medical and Research Center.
nationaljewish.org/medfacts/beryllium_medfact.html
- Government had knowledge of beryllium hazards - Part of a series of Toledo Blade articles about the government's knowledge of the hazards of beryllium.
www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Avis=TO&Dato=19990328&Kategori=SRDEADLY03&Lopenr=9999095&Ref=AR
- Hanford Beryllium - Information about Beryllium as it pertains to the Hanford Site, in Washington State. Contains health issues, questions and answers and links.
www.hanford.gov/safety/beryllium
- HSE Air Sampling Information for Beryllium and Compounds - Health and Safety Executive information. From SKC, providing air sampling technology.
www.skcinc.com/hse/FILE0018.html
- Industry-Defense Alliance Goes Against Beryllium Workers - Article in Toledo Blade about industry and defense alliance that effectively kept beryllium workers from being protected against chronic beryllium disease.
www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Avis=TO&Dato=19990329&Kategori=SRDEADLY08&Lopenr=9999100&Ref=AR
- Manual for Safe Operation and Proper Design of Beryllium Facilities - U.S. Department of Energy Defense Programs: Beryllium Good Practice Guide.
tis.eh.doe.gov/be/defense.html
- Natural History of Beryllium Sensitization and Chronic Beryllium Disease - A medical article about the early detection of beryllium sensitization and chronic beryllium disease. Includes recent studies
ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1996/Suppl-5/newm
- Significance of the Blood Beryllium Lymphocyte Proliferation Test - Abstract: An in vitro measure of the beryllium antigen-specific cell-mediated immune response. This response to beryllium is now understood to play a central role in the immunopathogenesis of chronic beryllium disease (CBD).
ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1996/Suppl-5/lsnewmanabs.html
- ToxFAQs - Beryllium - Fact sheet published by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry answers the most frequently asked health questions about beryllium.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts4.html
- Workers Deserve Equal Protection Against Exposure - Editorial about applying equal standards to all workers who could be exposed to beryllium in their jobs.
www.post-gazette.com/forum/19991215edberyll2.asp
- Communicating Health Risks: Working Safely with Beryllium - A training package represents up-to-date, technically accurate information about beryllium, which targets beryllium workers and their managers and supervisors. Manual is in Adobe PDF Format.
tis-nt.eh.doe.gov/med/commbe
- Preventing Adverse Health Effects From Exposure to Beryllium on the Job - OSHA Safety and Health, OSHA Hazard Information Bulletins: Preventing Adverse Health Effects From Exposure to Beryllium on the Job.
www.osha-slc.gov/dts/hib/hib_data/hib19990902.html
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