[Safety criteria in working with metallic beryllium].

The concept of an acceptable risk was used to elaborate criteria required to analyze the safety of operations with metallic beryllium at dangerous industrial enterprises. To follow these criteria ensures the high level of beryllium work safety, follows the present-day tendency for the development of approaches to evaluating the safety of devices using toxically hazard substances. The criteria involve a human death risk due to the single entry of beryllium into the body during accidents, as well as the level of its chronic intake in different groups of subjects on secondary dust formation after an accident. The accident that occurred at the beryllium works, the industrial association "Ulbinsk Metallurgic Plant, in Ust-Kamenogorsk on September 12, 1990, has been analyzed by using the computer program "GAUSS". The results of calculations are in good agreement with those of observations.