RE: Apology for a mistake (Man Sentenced in radioactivePoisoning

["Weiner, Ruth" <rfweine@sandia.gov>]

At the risk of being (a)WAY off topic and (b) a member of the language
police:

"site" -- a place where something (or an event) is situated
"cite" -- to quote as an authority or an example

Ruth F. Weiner, Ph. D.
Sandia National Laboratories 
MS 0718, POB 5800
Albuquerque, NM 87185-0718
505-844-4791; fax 505-844-0244
rfweine@sandia.gov


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Abraham [mailto:jimabe@lamar.colostate.edu]
Sent: January 12, 2000 11:46 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: Apology for a mistake (Man Sentenced in radioactive
Poisoning




"Bradshaw, Keith" wrote:

>         Well up to a point.  But doesn't the organisation have a
> responsibility to ensure it doesn't employ psychos?  And that the people
who
> ARE employed are treated well in order to reduce their chances of turning
> psycho?  BTW, I think that Mcdonalds coffee case was stupid too.
>
>         keith.bradshaw@nnc.co.uk

Your taking a tangent of a tangent here.  Getting back to a UNIVERSITY
setting,
(a reminder of where this discussion started) this is absolutely not
feasible.
Many universities employ thousands of graduate students who do the bulk work
of
handling radiation sources for the purpose of their research.  Of course
they
answer to their advisors who answer to the safety offices, and I'm sure, are
"screened" somewhat before being accepted into their university's graduate
program.  But to insinuate that personality tests should now determine
whether
someone is "at risk" by working with dangerous materials and therefore
should
not receive a higher education is ridiculous.  Try to sneak that one past a
lawyer.  Only then will the university be sited; not for negligence or lack
of
radiation security, but for discrimination in a nice big fat civil suit.

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James P. Abraham
Alt. Radiation Safety Officer
Radiation Control Office - Environmental Health Serv.
Colorado State University - Fort Collins, CO 80523-6021

Phone:  (970) 491-3928  Fax:  (970) 491-4804
email:  jimabe@lamar.colostate.edu
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