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Re: Conundrum
Trust me, I'm trying to be tactful: You're completely wrong.
Regardless of the person's "employer", the licensee who monitors their exposure is
responsible for controlling it and is responsible for maintaining their dosimetry
records. No outside organization, other than some regulators, has the authority
to obtain this informatio without the employee's consent. When they leave your
site, they should request their records ("termination letter") which they can then
take to their next job, so that the next licensee knows their exposure history.
If the individual doesn't want the dosimetry information transferred, you can't
legally transfer it - Of course, the next licensee will not be able to hire them.
Power plants maintain cooperative data bases, such as "PADS". But information is
maintained there with the employee's consent. If an employee is wearing dosimetry
from multiple licensees - generally a poor practice - it should be clear which is
the "official" dose of record.
The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
It's not about dose, it's about trust.
Bill Lipton
liptonw@dteenergy.com
brackett@bright.net wrote:
> Is the person's employer, for whom I assume they're doing this work, an
> "outside organization?" While I agree that dose records are confidential
> and should be treated as medical records, if you have subcontractors on
> your site their employer is entitled (and most likely, required) to know
> what doses they are receiving because they are ultimately responsible. It
> is particularly important if the person has the potential for occupational
> exposure at multiple sites.
>
> At 01:53 PM 4/25/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> >With the exception of required NRC (or other regulator) reports, an
> employee's
> >dose history files should not be released to an outside organization
> without >the employee's consent. As a general rule, we treat dosimetry
> records as >medical records.
> >
> >> We recently started allowing non-Lockheed Martin employees to use a large
> >> Co-60 irradiator we own. These individuals are required to attend our
> >> radiation safety training, be approved by our Radiation Safety Committee as
> >> Authorized Users, and are issued LM dosimetry. Their dosimeter results come
> >> to me mixed in with LM employee's dosimetry results. For privacy purposes,
> >> if an LM employee wants to know their exposure history I require a written
> >> request over the individual's signature. Now I have received a request from
> >> the Human Resources department of the employer of these non-LM employees
> for
> >> a copy of their dosimetry records "for their files."
> >>
> >> My question is, do I still require a request from the employee, or do I
> send
> >> the information to the HR department? How do y'all handle this?
> >>
>
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> Elizabeth M. Brackett, CHP
> Sr. Health Physicist
> MJW Corporation, Inc.
> (330) 644-3757
> mailto:brackett@bright.net
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