DoD IH Working Group Accomplishments

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DoD IH Working GroupAccomplishmentsFuture
Direction

• Donna M. Doganiero, CIH
• Chair, DoD IH Working Group

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IH Work Group Emphasis

• Exposure Assessment Model
• DOEHRS development
• DoDI 6055.5, IH OH
• DoD IH Metrics

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IH Exposure Assessment Model

• Updates language of existing process
• AIHA exposure assessment strategy
• Identifies common DoD IH practices
• DOEHRS design
• DoDI 6055.5 revisions
• IH metrics development

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IH Exposure Assessment Process
Risk Management Steps
Identify Hazards
Assess Hazards
Develop Controls Make Risk Decisions
Supervise Evaluate
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Exposure Assessment Model
start
Define scope of support resources
walk through survey

• Basic characterization
• anticipate and identify
• potential exposures
• assess hazard sources

Establish SEGs
Develop workplace monitoring plan
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Exposure Assessment Model
Characterize exposures
follow-up survey
Assess exposure provide control plan
Reporting recording
Re-evaluation
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Next Steps for Model

• JESWG may use for deployment
• Occ. Env. Health Surveillance
• common theme of EXPOSURES
• Foundation for DoDI 6055.5

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IH Work Group Emphasis

• Exposure Assessment Model
• DOEHRS development
• DoDI 6055.5, IH OH
• DoD IH Metrics

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DOEHRS

• Validated build 1 requirements
• Provided to OH IPT for approval
• Submitted to DOEHRS PMO for development
• POCs for questions
• Navy Carla Treadwell
• Air Force LtCol Art Kaminski
• Army Donna Doganiero

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IH Work Group Emphasis

• Exposure Assessment Model
• DOEHRS development
• DoDI 6055.5, IH OH
• DoD IH Metrics

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DoDI 6055.5Industrial Hygiene Occ Health

• Update DoDI 6055.5, 1989
• Cooperative effort
• DoD IH WG
• Occupational Medicine community
• Joint Environmental Surveillance
• WG
• Scope expanded --- all exposures
• Draft to be posted to web for viewing

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Work Group Emphasis

• Exposure Assessment Model
• DOEHRS development
• DoDI 6055.5, IH OH
• DoD IH Metrics

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Metrics

• Why
• show value of the program at DoD level
• metrics available for other program areas
• Status
• being worked into draft DoDI 6055.5
• End State
• DoD program reviews
• support POM
• make DoD-level programmatic
• decisions

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Measuring the Process
requirements resources
SOH business processes
outputs
outcome

• protect 2.9 M military civilians
• IH prof. staff

• mission readiness
• DNBI
• illness
• costs

• IH surveys
• illness investigations
• hazards abated
• trained personnel

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IH Metrics

• Output
• rate of workplace hazard
• characterizations completed
• Outcome
• rate of exposures gt action level
• rate of exposures gt OEL

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questions?