Audit Report: IG-0726

April 20, 2006

Implementation of the Department of Energy's Beryllium-Associated Worker Registry

The data in the Department of Energy's (Department) Beryllium- Associated Worker Registry (Registry) was neither complete nor fully accurate. Further, the Department had not used the Registry to evaluate health effects of beryllium exposure or the prevalence of beryllium disease, two of the objectives of the Chronic Beryllium Disease Prevention Program (Prevention Program).