What is a Site Expert?
Under the NIOSH Dose Reconstruction Program, a Site Expert is responsible for advising on site-specific issues and incidents as necessary to ensure the completeness and accuracy of Site Profile Documents and Special Exposure Cohort Petition Evaluation Reports. Site experts are those individuals who, because of current or prior work experience (including consulting) at or for the site, possess or are aware of information that is relevant for reconstructing radiation doses experienced by claimants who worked at the site. Because of their work experience at or for sites under Program review and the need to prevent a conflict or bias (COB), Site Experts shall play only a very limited role in accomplishing key Program functions. They may be used by a document owner in crafting a key Program document, to provide both data and opinions on data to that document owner. In all cases where such information or prior studies or writings are included or relied upon by a key Program document owner, t
