Knowing Endangerment - Hanford Challenge

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ACRONYMS > D Less than detectable level (on monitoring equipment) ACGIH American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists BHS Behavioral Health Services (at HEHF) CAS Chemical Abstracts Service CCC Command Control Center CCSI Contract Claims Services, Inc. CHG CH2M Hill, Hanford Group, Inc. (a DOE contractor) CT-ROSE Computed Tomography-Remote Optical Sensing of Emissions DOE United States Department of Energy DOE-RL US Department of Energy, Richland Field Office DST Double Shell Tank DRI Direct Reading Instrument FOIA Freedom of Information Act FY Fiscal Year GAP Government Accountability Project HAMTC Hanford Atomic Metal Trades Commission HASP Health and Safety Plan HAZWOPER Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response HEHF Hanford Environmental Health Foundation (a DOE contractor) HEPA High-Efficiency Particulate Air HLW High Level Waste HPT Health Physics Technician IDLH Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health IH Industrial Hygienist/ Industrial Hygiene IHT Industrial Hygiene Technician IME Independent Medical Examiner JHA Job Hazard Analysis Kadlec Local hospital in Richland L & I Labor and Industries (Workers Compensation) LEL Lower Explosive Limit (Flammable gas level) NCO Nuclear Chemical Operator NDMA n-nitrosodimethylamine NH 3 Ammonia NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health NPO Nuclear Process Operator NWC Nuclear Weapons Complex OP-FTIR Open Path-Fourier Transform InfraRed OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration PAPR Powered Air Purifying Respirators PEL Permissible Exposure Limit PER Problem Evaluation Request PID Photo-ionization detector PNNL Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (operated by Battelle) PPE Personal Protective Equipment ppm Parts per million ppb Parts-per-billion ppbRAE RAE Systems parts per billion photo-ionization detector (PID) organics monitor iv
SCBA SST TLV TOC TWINS VOC WHC Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (or supplied air) Single-Shell Tank Threshold Limit Values Total Organic Carbon Tank Waste Information Network System Volatile Organic Compounds Westinghouse Hanford Corporation (a DOE contractor) v
Page 1 and 2: Knowing Endangerment: WORKER EXPOSU
Page 3: TABLE OF CONTENTS I. EXECUTIVE SUMM
Page 8 and 9: used in the tank farms and reduce t
Page 10 and 11: II. BACKGROUND A. Hanford Tank Farm
Page 12 and 13: not detected on an ammonia monitor.
Page 14 and 15: warnings by safety experts, threate
Page 16 and 17: Not only does the science of the He
Page 18 and 19: symptoms: burning skin, persistent
Page 20 and 21: CHG‟s monitoring equipment has li
Page 22 and 23: glands tied to memory banks in the
Page 24 and 25: On June 14, 2002, headspace organic
Page 26 and 27: vapor sources. Initially, we were t
Page 28 and 29: Even when CHG does determine that r
Page 30 and 31: outdated Hewitt report 105 (discuss
Page 32 and 33: discovered in December 2001. Tank U
Page 34 and 35: With the failure to record this inf
Page 36 and 37: manner because my success here depe
Page 38 and 39: management. The patient receives th
Page 40 and 41: elated work other than some persons
Page 42 and 43: OSHA does not have right-of-entry o
Page 44 and 45: Like NASA, Hanford has fallen victi
Page 46 and 47: covering up monitoring data, or pro
Page 48 and 49: APPENDIX B: Chemical Vapor Exposure
Page 50 and 51: APPENDIX B: January 2002 - August 2
Page 52 and 53: “During the course of my duties a

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