NIOSH's Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program uses form 2.8 to record each ILO classification of a coal miner's surveillance chest radiograph, under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 and 42 CFR Part 37. The reader grades image quality, classifies small and large opacities and pleural abnormalities, records other symbols and findings, and states whether the miner should see a personal physician.
A NIOSH-certified B Reader, or an A reader at an approved facility, completes the whole form for a single radiograph and signs it, leaving the reader ID blank if not a NIOSH A or B Reader.
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Chest Radiograph Classification
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B Readers who interpret chest radiographs for the Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program, and A readers at approved facilities. The reader marks the type of reading (A, B or F), enters a NIOSH reader ID, initials, reading date and signature, and leaves the ID blank if not a NIOSH A or B Reader.
Electronically, by email to the Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program, according to the NIOSH CWHSP forms page. The burden statement on page 2 notes that completed forms should not be sent to the CDC paperwork office address printed there.
No. Form 2.8 is for coal miner surveillance radiographs under the CWHSP and is marked for official government use only. For other ILO classifications, such as asbestos or silica medical surveillance, NIOSH offers a General Purpose Chest Radiograph Classification Form, which is not submitted to NIOSH.