ORAU Worker Health & Safety Studies

As the nation’s research facilities, laboratories, and private industry place greater importance on ensuring that activities are performed in a safe and environmentally responsible manner, accurate analysis of occupational health issues is critical to mitigating the causes and effects of on-the-job exposures.

From epidemiology and health surveillance studies to risk assessments and organizational culture evaluations—ORAU offers a comprehensive approach to helping customers focus on workplace hazards research and the occupational health and safety of workers.

Beryllium Exposure Assessments

ORAU health professionals manage comprehensive beryllium exposure studies and testing programs to assess the health effects to employees who have been exposed to airborne beryllium and other occupational hazards.

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Epidemiologic Studies & Biostatistics

ORAU’s experts provide evaluation of the exposure-disease relationship through health surveillance programs, independent, scientific investigations, health risk assessments and large cohort studies to inform better decision making about human health protections.

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Organizational Culture Evaluations

ORAU conducts organizational culture evalutions to assess an organization’s values and behaviors, which serve to make safe performance of work the overriding priority to protect the workers, the public and the environment. When organizational culture issues are identified and addressed, your workforce is more engaged, more productive and provides greater responsiveness to your customers.

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Health Program Management

ORAU has more than 30 years of experience managing comprehensive health programs for a wide range of exposures, helping our clients ensure they stay compliant with industry regulations. We can design and manage a customized, scalable health program for your employees—whether for current or former workers, large or small cohorts, single or multiple exposures, local or nationwide clinical networks—to ensure you are meeting regulatory requirements.

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Health Information Management

ORAU provides complete lifecycle health data management solutions, from pre-hire to retirement/former worker status, as well as medical data management of ongoing personal or area-based exposure surveillance data and health screenings.

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What we offer

Health risk and exposure assessments
Regulatory compliance
Risk identification, evaluation and control
Management and mitigation of current and emerging health issues
Safety and security culture evaluations
Occupational and epidemiological studies
Health and medical surveillance

Management of large, complex health programs
Health screenings and surveillance
Health data analysis and reporting
Electronic medical recordkeeping
Biostatistical modeling
Beryllium exposure testing and OSHA Rule support

30,000 nuclear workers surveyed on safety cultures in their workplaces

ORAU has performed periodic, comprehensive evaluations of nuclear industry workforces and practices in an effort to monitor and continuously improve safety culture.

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Managing nationwide health screening program for former energy workers

ORAU and partners National Jewish Health, Comprehensive Health Services Incorporated, Axion Health and the University of Colorado, Denver, offer NSSP screenings at more than 2,000 clinics in every state across the United States.

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Assessing radiation exposures for energy workers

Since its inception in 2002, the NIOSH Radiation Dose Reconstruction Program has yielded thousands of claims successfully processed for workers’ compensation.

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Providing more than 25 years of health research for beryllium workers

Since 1993, ORAU staff have performed more than 80,000 BeLPTs through management of the ORISE Beryllium Testing Laboratory for the Department of Energy.

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Validating optimal statistical approach for assessing worker health risks from titanium dioxide exposures

ORAU contributed to a study examining the effects of occupational exposure to titanium dioxide (TiO₂), a white pigment widely used in consumer products, such as sunscreen, cosmetics, paint and plastics.

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