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Bay Area Asbestos Surveillance Project (BAASP).

PB87105466

Publication Date	1980
Personal Author	Polakoff, P. L.
Page Count	72
Abstract	A study, the Bay Area Asbestos Surveillance Project (BAASP), was instituted to screen persons including women who had worked in shipyards during World War-II and male longshore and shipyard workers who believed they had been exposed to asbestos (1332214) prior to 1963 in the San Francisco Bay area in California. The Project initiated a process of worker notification concerning asbestos related disease in the shipyard and longshore industries, advanced public awareness of the hazards of asbestos, began to identify persons who experienced significant exposure to asbestos, and provided some assessment of the medical and social needs of asbestos exposed workers and their families. Of 2244 workers examined by x-ray, 46 percent showed potentially serious abnormality and 30 percent showed questionable abnormality. Of 208 longshoremen, 41 percent showed potentially serious abnormality and 20 percent showed questionable abnormality. Of 186 women, 26 percent showed potentially serious abnormality and 35 percent showed questionable abnormality. The author concludes that at the very least the results of the study emphasize again the importance of asbestos as a threat to many industrial workers.
Keywords	Environmental surveys Industrial medicine Asbestos Air pollution Exposure Toxicity Inspection Hazardous materials Dust Signs and symptoms Shipyards Diseases Toxic substances Occupational safety and health Inhalation Health hazards Bay Area asbestos surveillance project
Source Agency	National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
NTIS Subject Category	57U - Public Health & Industrial Medicine 57Y - Toxicology 94D - Job Environment 68G - Environmental Health & Safety 68A - Air Pollution & Control
Corporate Authors	Western Inst. for Occupational/Environmental Sciences, Inc., Berkeley, CA.; National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH.
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Draft final rept.
NTIS Issue Number	198702
Contract Number	PHS-NIOSH-210-78-0113

Bay Area Asbestos Surveillance Project (BAASP).

Bay Area Asbestos Surveillance Project (BAASP).
PB87105466

Publication Date	1980
Personal Author	Polakoff, P. L.
Page Count	72
Abstract	A study, the Bay Area Asbestos Surveillance Project (BAASP), was instituted to screen persons including women who had worked in shipyards during World War-II and male longshore and shipyard workers who believed they had been exposed to asbestos (1332214) prior to 1963 in the San Francisco Bay area in California. The Project initiated a process of worker notification concerning asbestos related disease in the shipyard and longshore industries, advanced public awareness of the hazards of asbestos, began to identify persons who experienced significant exposure to asbestos, and provided some assessment of the medical and social needs of asbestos exposed workers and their families. Of 2244 workers examined by x-ray, 46 percent showed potentially serious abnormality and 30 percent showed questionable abnormality. Of 208 longshoremen, 41 percent showed potentially serious abnormality and 20 percent showed questionable abnormality. Of 186 women, 26 percent showed potentially serious abnormality and 35 percent showed questionable abnormality. The author concludes that at the very least the results of the study emphasize again the importance of asbestos as a threat to many industrial workers.
Keywords	Environmental surveys Industrial medicine Asbestos Air pollution Exposure Toxicity Inspection Hazardous materials Dust Signs and symptoms Shipyards Diseases Toxic substances Occupational safety and health Inhalation Health hazards Bay Area asbestos surveillance project
Source Agency	National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
NTIS Subject Category	57U - Public Health & Industrial Medicine 57Y - Toxicology 94D - Job Environment 68G - Environmental Health & Safety 68A - Air Pollution & Control
Corporate Authors	Western Inst. for Occupational/Environmental Sciences, Inc., Berkeley, CA.; National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH.
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Draft final rept.
NTIS Issue Number	198702
Contract Number	PHS-NIOSH-210-78-0113