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CPWR has launched a national network of more than 200 health care providers in support of medical screening for occupational disease. Occupational diseases continue to be largely undiagnosed, underreported, and rarely compensated. |
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Medical Screening Program for Sheet Metal Workers
CPWR collaborates with the Sheet Metal Occupational Health Institute Trust (SMOHIT) to study the health hazards of the sheet metal industry. Laura Welch , MD, (CPWR) and Gary Batykefer (SMOHIT) direct this initiative.
Building Trades National Medical Screening Program from U.S. Department of Energy Sites
Former DOE workers notification and screening program for building trades workers exposed to health hazards during past work at U.S. Department of Energy sites at Hanford, in Washington; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Savannah River, in South Carolina; Amchitka, Alaska; Mound, Fernald, and Portsmouth, in Ohio; Kansas City, Weldon Springs, Mallinckrodt, in Missouri; Paducah, Kentucky; INEEL, in Idaho; Brookhaven National Lab in New York, Rocky Flats, in Colorado and the Pinellas Plant, in Florida. In January 2007, the program expanded to include construction workers from the Battelle Laboratories - King Avenue and West Jefferson sites both located in Columbus, Ohio, as well as the Brush Luckey site, located in Luckey, Ohio. Call 1-800-866-9663 or check our btmed.org.
Trish Quinn (pquinn@cpwr.com) directs CPWR efforts within these programs.
See fall issue of BTMED News.
For more information on the DOE Former Worker Program (FWP), go to http://www.hss.energy.gov/healthsafety/fwsp/formerworkermed/.
Click below for more information on federal compensation for former DOE/nuclear workers with occupational cancers or silicosis:
U.S. Dept of Labor energy employees compensation
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