Re: New dosimeter for emergency personnel

[Michael McNaughton <mcnaught@lanl.gov>]

Does the community of HPs still advocate the following guidelines?
10 rem for protecting major property
25 rem for lifesaving
>25 rem for volunteers

At 11:04 AM 3/17/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Frankly, for the kind of work and threats to life and health that
>firefighters deal with routinely, what good would a dosimeter be for them
>if it goes offscale to 2 rem? Hopefully no one will be teaching them to
>abandon a rescue because the "badge" reached its 2 rem threshold.
>It seems to me that the concept for the dosimeter is good, but the useful
>range needs to be higher. 

Mike McNaughton
email: mcnaught@LANL.gov or mcnaughton@LANL.gov
phone: (505)667-6130
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