Beryllium Health and Safety Committee (BHSC)

Mission

The Beryllium Health and Safety Committee (BHSC) promotes activities/efforts that help people better understand and prevent beryllium-induced conditions and illnesses, including Beryllium Sensitization (BeS) and Chronic Beryllium Disease (CBD). Such illnesses may be caused or exacerbated by workplace exposure to beryllium.

The BHSC mission is primarily educational in nature, and is accomplished through generation, collection and dissemination of information to members and other interested parties. The subjects of the information cover the following and more:

Promoting the safe use of beryllium
Obtaining a better understanding of exposure risks
Improving exposure monitoring
Fostering improved controls
Accumulating and disseminating information concerning beryllium process best work practices, as well as, data from health studies concerning the hazards associated with beryllium
Training / mentoring of beryllium health professionals
Identifying and promoting research that has the potential to enhance or improve our worker safety programs

Beryllium Health and Safety committee

Mission

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