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Jennifer Hoff named deputy project manager of the ORAU Team Dose Reconstruction Project for NIOSH

Posted at 3:02 pm September 19, 2022
By Amy Schwinge Leave a Comment

Oak Ridge, Tenn.—Jennifer Hoff, Ph.D, has been named the new deputy project manager of the ORAU Team Dose Reconstruction Project for National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Hoff has served as associate director on the NIOSH Dose Reconstruction Project since 2021 and has worked on this project in different capacities since 2003.

In her new position, Hoff will work with the project manager in both strategic and operational leadership of her team. She will also guide her team to exceed expectations in their duties of continuing the key missions of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act. She will take over the role in October, when current Deputy Project Manager Matt McFee retires.

“We are thrilled that Jennifer will be taking on this role,” said Jeff Miller, Ph.D., senior vice president and director of ORAU Government Services. “She has been an important part of the NIOSH project for almost 20 years, and her experience and knowledge made her the best choice. We cannot wait to see what Jennifer will do as deputy project manager.”

Before starting her current role as an associate director, Hoff worked as a manager on the project for 12 years. Prior to that, she served as a health physicist.

Hoff earned a doctorate in nuclear engineering from the University of Tennessee — Knoxville in 2003. She also holds a master’s degree and bachelor’s degree from the same school, both in nuclear engineering with a concentration in radiological engineering.

ORAU provides innovative scientific and technical solutions to advance national priorities in science, education, security and health. Through specialized teams of experts, unique laboratory capabilities and access to a consortium of 152 major institutions, ORAU works with federal, state, local and commercial customers to advance national priorities and serve the public interest. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation and federal contractor, ORAU manages the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education for the U.S. Department of Energy. To learn more, visit www.orau.org.

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Filed Under: Front Page News Tagged With: NIOSH, ORAU

CDC awards $167 million dose reconstruction contract to ORAU

Posted at 2:09 pm August 8, 2019
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Part of the ORAU campus in central Oak Ridge is pictured above on May 29, 2017. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

ORAU and its partners have received a $167 million multi-year contract for work that includes radiation dose reconstructions for a federal compensation program that involves certain illnesses and work at sites affiliated with the U.S. Department of Energy.

ORAU announced the contract in a press release on Wednesday.

ORAU and its partners started work on the original contract in 2002, or 17 years ago. The new contract is for one year with four, one-year options, the press release said.

The contract is with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The work will support the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, or NIOSH.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Federal, Front Page News, Government, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, ORAU, Slider, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, DOE, dose assessment, dose reconstruction, EEOICPA, energy employees, Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act, MJW Technical Services, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, NIOSH, nuclear weapons complex, NV5/Dade Moeller, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, ORAU, radiation dose reconstruction, U.S. Department of Energy

Final notice: New class of Y-12 workers added to compensation program

Posted at 5:50 pm April 12, 2019
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

The sign at the main entrance to the Y-12 National Security Complex is pictured above on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

A new class of workers at the Y-12 National Security Complex has been added to a federal energy employees compensation program that was established about two decades ago, officials announced Thursday.

The affected employees would have worked at Y-12 between January 1, 1958, and December 31, 1976. They would have been employees of the U.S. Department of Energy, its predecessor agencies, or their contractors and subcontractors. They would have had an aggregate of at least 250 work days. That could have occurred either only through this employment or in combination with work days that meet the parameters established for one or more other classes of employees in what is known as the Special Exposure Cohort.

The notice that the new class of employees has been added to the Special Exposure Cohort was published in the Federal Register by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday. Oak Ridge Today reported in December that the class was being evaluated, based on exposure to radiation from thorium metal parts and plutonium-241 isotopes, and reported in March that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had designated the class of employees to be added. The new designation became effective March 28.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Federal, Front Page News, Government, Health, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy, Y-12 National Security Complex Tagged With: Alex Azar, cancer, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, energy employees compensation, Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act, Federal Register, HHS, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, NIOSH, plutonium-241, radiation dose, special exposure cohort, Stuart L. Hinnefeld, thorium metal, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Y-12, Y-12 National Security Complex

(For members) NIOSH evaluating another class of Y-12 workers for compensation program

Posted at 2:58 pm April 8, 2019
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

The sign at the main entrance to the Y-12 National Security Complex is pictured above on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

The sign at the main entrance to the Y-12 National Security Complex is pictured above on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

The sign at the main entrance to the Y-12 National Security Complex is pictured above on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

Federal health and safety officials are evaluating another class of Y-12 employees for a workers compensation program that involves certain illnesses and work at sites that are affiliated with the U.S. Department of Energy.

The petition being evaluated now could include all laborers who fabricated or processed uranium between January 1, 1977, and December 31, 1994, in any area at Y-12. The petition was received November 1 and qualified for evaluation on March 25.

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Filed Under: Federal, Front Page News, Government, Premium Content, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy, Y-12 National Security Complex Tagged With: Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health, cancer, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act, Federal Register, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, NIOSH, petition, radiation dose, special exposure cohort, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, workers' compensation, Y-12

(For members) Y-12 class could be added to worker compensation program based on thorium, Pu-241 exposure

Posted at 6:33 pm December 28, 2018
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The sign at the main entrance to the Y-12 National Security Complex is pictured above on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

The sign at the main entrance to the Y-12 National Security Complex is pictured above on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

The sign at the main entrance to the Y-12 National Security Complex is pictured above on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

A new class of Y-12 employees could be added to a federal worker compensation program based on exposure to radiation from thorium metal parts and plutonium-241 isotopes between 1958 and 1976, health officials said.

The worker compensation program involves certain illnesses and work at sites like Y-12 that are affiliated with the U.S. Department of Energy.

The program is a result of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act, which was enacted in October 2000. The act includes what is known as the Special Exposure Cohort. The new class of Y-12 employees could be part of that Special Exposure Cohort.

That designation would allow eligible claimants to be compensated without the complete reconstruction of a radiation dose or a determination of the probable cause. A covered employee would have to have at least one of 22 specified cancers.

The class of employees being evaluated now would have worked at Y-12 between January 1, 1958, through December 31, 1976, when Y-12 was manufacturing nuclear weapons components during the Cold War. The employees would have had an aggregate total of at least 250 work days, according to a notice published in the Federal Register this month. The class could change, however, based upon the evaluation.

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Filed Under: Federal, Front Page News, Government, Health, Premium Content, Slider, Top Stories, Y-12, Y-12 National Security Complex Tagged With: Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health, alpha radiation, beta radiation, cancer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cold War, Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act, external radiation, Federal Register, internal exposures, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, NIOSH, nuclear weapons components, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, plutonium-241, radiation, radiation dose, radiological hazard, radium, radium-228, special exposure cohort, thorium, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, worker compensation, worker compensation program

New class of Y-12 employees being evaluated for worker compensation program

Posted at 12:53 pm December 14, 2018
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Y-12 Aerial Photo June 2012

The Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge is pictured above in June 2012. (Photo courtesy NNSA)

 

A new class of employees at the Y-12 National Security Complex is being evaluated for possible inclusion in a worker compensation program that involves certain illnesses and work at sites affiliated with the U.S. Department of Energy.

The class of employees being evaluated now would have worked at Y-12 between January 1, 1958, through December 31, 1976, and they would have had an aggregate total of at least 250 work days, according to a notice published in the Federal Register on Friday. The class could change, however, based upon the evaluation.

The decision to evaluate the petition for the Y-12 employees was announced by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

It’s not clear when the petition was filed, who filed it, or how long the evaluation might take. Oak Ridge Today has requested more information from the CDC. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Federal, Front Page News, Government, Health, Slider, U.S. Department of Energy, Y-12, Y-12 National Security Complex Tagged With: beryllium, beryllium sensitivity, cancer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, chronic beryllium disease, chronic silicosis, Department of Justice, EEOICPA, Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act, Federal Register, illness, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, NIOSH, radiation, radiation dose reconstruction, Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, radiogenic cancer, RECA, silica, special exposure cohort, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, uranium, worker compensation, Y-12 National Security Complex

Health Physics Society names ORAU’s Davis as recipient of Elda E. Anderson Award

Posted at 10:52 am July 16, 2017
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ORAU Health Physicist Jason Davis and his wife, Samantha, display the 2017 Elda E. Anderson Award he received at the Health Physics Society Annual Meeting. (Photo by ORAU)

ORAU Health Physicist Jason Davis and his wife, Samantha, display the 2017 Elda E. Anderson Award he received at the Health Physics Society Annual Meeting. (Photo by ORAU)

 

RALEIGH, N.C.—The Health Physics Society has named Jason Davis, an ORAU health physicist, as the 2017 recipient of the Elda E. Anderson Award, an annual honor bestowed to one of its young members for excellence in research or development, discovery or invention, or significant contributions to the health physics profession.

The award was presented to Davis during the 62nd annual meeting of the Health Physics Society, July 9-13 in Raleigh.

Davis joined ORAU in 2009 to work on projects associated with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). As a member of the NIOSH Special Exposure Cohort team, Davis researches the historic monitoring practices of sites to determine whether sufficient information exists to adequately bound radiation exposures to employees, a press release said. He communicates this information, along with analyses of the methods to bound radiation doses using the data available, through evaluation reports, project reports, and white papers.

At ORAU, Davis works closely with Eric W. Abelquist, executive vice president and chief research officer. Abelquist is a former recipient of the Elda E. Anderson Award and is the new president of the Health Physics Society national organization. Davis recently assisted Abelquist in the execution of the Radiation Protection Research Needs Workshop held earlier this year and has helped organize a Visiting Faculty Research Program pilot that will be completed in August. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Front Page News, Health, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Elda E. Anderson Award, Eric W. Abelquist, health physics, Health Physics Society, HPS, Jason Davis, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, NIOSH, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, ORAU

NIOSH renews ORAU contract for sick worker program

Posted at 3:00 pm April 11, 2014
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Andy Page

Andy Page

Contract could be worth about $150 million over five years

For the second time in about five years, a federal health and safety institute has renewed its contract with Oak Ridge Associated Universities for the support it provides on a sick worker program. The new contract could be worth about $150 million during a five-year period.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health awarded the contract to a team headed by ORAU in Oak Ridge. Under the new contract, ORAU and its partners Dade Moeller and Associates Inc. and MJW Technical Services Inc. will continue to support NIOSH and its work under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act, or EEOICPA, a press release said.

Last renewed in 2009, this contract has been managed by ORAU for more than a decade, and this is the second time NIOSH has renewed with ORAU and its partners, the release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Federal, Government, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Andy Page, Chuck Fleischmann, claimant interviews, claims, Dade Moeller, Dade Moeller and Associates Inc., dose reconstruction, EEOICPA, Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act, MJW Technical Services Inc., MJWTS, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, NIOSH, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, occupational radiation doses, ORAU, petitions, SEC, sick worker, special exposure cohort, U.S. Department of Labor

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