Introduction - Occupational Health and Workplace Monitoring at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities - page 7

sure; hazardous waste management; health risk assess-
ment; incineration; industrial hygiene; materials sci-
ence; mechanical engineering; monitoring and instru-
mentation; occupational medicine; organic chemistry;
physical chemistry; risk assessment, management, and
communication; safety; toxicology; urban studies; and
waste treatment and minimization.

Review medical monitoring and surveillance programs being
used within the CSDP.

Review CSDP protocols for compilation and management
of medical records of facility personnel.

Receive input, as appropriate, through documents and brief-
ings from other organizations in the private and public sec-
tors, about approaches and lessons learned from chemical
monitoring of similarly complex facilities.

Develop findings and recommendations.

STATEMENT OF TASK AND CONTENT
OF REPORT

Chapter 2 focuses on (1) ambient air monitoring for
the presence of chemical agents in and around chemi-
cal agent disposal facilities and (2) the monitoring of
agent and agent breakdown products in liquid media
and on solid surfaces. Current monitoring practices and
their systematic deployment at disposal facilities are
also discussed. Chapter 3 examines worker monitoring
in the context of occupational and environmental medi-
cine as practiced at operating chemical agent disposal
facilities. The components necessary for a comprehen-
sive occupational and environmental health program
are presented, and current practices at the operating
sites are compared with the recommended model. In
Chapter 4, current chemical monitoring, worker activity,
industrial hygiene, and health record-keeping practices
at operating disposal facilities are reviewed and evalu-
ated. The continuity of records for workers employed
at more than one site is examined. In Chapter 5, find-
ings and recommendations based on the committee's
evaluation are presented.

In June 1999, the Army requested that the Stockpile
Committee examine issues related to workplace chemi-
cal monitoring and worker health monitoring at the
currently operating chemical disposal facilities. The
committee was also asked to evaluate the adequacy of
current practices for disposal facilities in the planning
or construction phases. The statement of task for this
study is reproduced below.

Conduct a review of the chemical monitoring analytical
methods and protocols being utilized for workplace monitor-
ing at chemical agent disposal facilities within the Chemical
Stockpile Disposal Program (CSDP).

Conduct a review of chemical agent disposal facility opera-
tions and records management for the ambient air monitoring
for agent, and for exhaust stack and other waste stream emis-
sions of agent and other substances of potential concern
(SOPCs) that are characteristic of these facilities. Use Occu-
pational Safety and Health Administration, and Environmen-
tal Protection Agency criteria for initial identification and
evaluation of SOPCs.