In January 2017, as a departing gift from the Obama administration, OSHA issued a final rule with three separate standards regulating occupational exposures to beryllium in general industry, ...

United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) Director, Directorate of Enforcement Programs, Thomas Galassi, authored a March 2nd memorandum titled: Delay of Enforcement of the ...

Main group elements in low oxidation states have the potential to carry out chemistry that’s usually reserved for transition metals. For example, at low oxidation states, these atoms might be able to ...

The government should immediately lower workers' exposure to beryllium, Public Citizen and the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical & Energy Workers International Union (PACE) said yesterday in a ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

More information on beryllium exposure:Web Resources: DOE: Beryllium Exposure Studies and Testing The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education beryllium web site. ORISE is an official DOE ...

For the first time, researchers have created a solid compound containing a beryllium-beryllium bond (Science 2023, DOI: 10.1126/science.adh4419). The compound is diberyllocene, in which each beryllium ...

Many physicians have become aware, through clinical experience, that certain compounds of beryllium can produce a systemic disease, beryllium poisoning. Because pulmonary involvement causes the ...

There is very active interest at present in the properties of beryllium as a wall material exposed to plasma in a fusion reactor environment. The planned plasma-facing materials for nuclear operation ...