[ RadSafe ] FW: [GeigerCounterEnthusiasts] Re: BestDosimeter/Personal Rad Monitor

[Brennan, Mike (DOH)]

I think the most important advice it to budget in TRAINING for the
people who will get the equipment, both initial and ongoing.  Otherwise
I suspect the most likely outcome of buying these devices will be that
they get tossed into lockers by people who believe (possibly correctly)
that they already have enough crap hanging off of them, with the second
most likely outcome being an embarrassing false positive, with bad PR
and possibly people dying.  

I have provided training for firefighters, and it is amazing the depth
for fear of radiation that they displayed.  These are people who have
"enter burning building" in their job description, but they said (at the
beginning of class) that if they pulled up on a call and "the radiation
alarm" went off, they would call it in and wait until HAZMAT got there,
no matter what else was going on.

"Hardware is useless without software; Software is useless without
training."
				 

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
Behalf Of Roger Helbig
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 2:18 AM
To: radsafe at radlab.nl
Cc: brent.keate at colorado.edu
Subject: [ RadSafe ] FW: [GeigerCounterEnthusiasts] Re:
BestDosimeter/Personal Rad Monitor

Brent Keate of the University of Colorado (brent.keate at colorado.edu )
has posted this to the Geiger Counter list - I am sure that some of you
might have some good advice for Brent and his university.

 

Roger Helbig

 

From: GeigerCounterEnthusiasts at yahoogroups.com
[mailto:GeigerCounterEnthusiasts at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Brent
Keate
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 8:56 AM
To: GeigerCounterEnthusiasts at yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [GeigerCounterEnthusiasts] Re: Best Dosimeter/Personal Rad
Monitor

 

Homeland Security has authorized some funds for our institution to
purchase some Dosimeters/Personal Rad Monitors for first responders on
campus.  Does anyone have some input as to what might be the best to
purchase?  We got a quote from our sister group, UCHSC, for a Model
1703M-01 from BNC.  This unit looks great in that it has a CsI (Tl) and
a G-M tube detector and stores the event data for later analysis which
is important as most of these units will go to CU Police and FD
personnel.  Does anyone have a suggestion as to what else I might
compare this unit to or any input from those who have actually used this
unit?

 

 

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