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Identification of occupational mortality, risks for Hanford workers (1982)

Auteur	Kneale, Stewart, Mancuso
Datum	augustus 1982
Classificatie	3.01.8.43/04 (VS - LOCATIES - HANFORD)
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Summary

Though most of the production work at Hanford is done by manual workers 46% 
of the most dangerous jobs are performed by persons who have professional or 
technical qualifications. For these privileged workers occupational mortality risks 
are positively correlated with radiation doses but for manual workers, who have 
relatively high death rates, there is an inverse relation with dose. The high ratio of 
professional to manual workers is clearly the reason for the industry having fewer 
observed than expected deaths and the inverse relation with dose for less privileged 
workers is probably a sign that there has been selective recruitment of the most 
highly paid manual workers (i.e. skilled craftsmen) into the more dangerous 
occupations. Evidence of this selective recruitment was obtained by equating 
danger levels with levels of monitoring for internal radiation. Therefore, there 
should be some control for these levels in any analysis of cancer effects of the 
measured dose of radiation.

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