Re: Conundrum

[Lew Helgeson <lewhelgeson@helge.com>]

Don,

Years ago the old AEC wanted whole body counting records of people that we
counted with our mobile whole body counters. We told the AEC that we were
bound by our contracts, and that the purchaser of our services was the only
organization to whom we would give results for either a specific person or
all persons counted at the client's facility. They threatened to get a
supeona and our legal councellor said "call their bluff," which we did and
they backed down.

We still get occasionally requests for information from city, county, state
or federal organizations or lawyers for a potential plaintiff. I tell them
the same thing: get permission from the person who paid for our services or
get a court order.

Lew Helgeson

At 01:34 PM 4/25/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>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?   
>
>Thank you in advance.
>
>    
>Donald P. Mercado
>Radiation Safety Officer
>Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Missiles & Space - Sunnyvale Operations
>O/EK-20, B/101
>1111 Lockheed Martin Way
>Sunnyvale, CA 94089
>Ph. (408) 742-0759
>Fax (408) 742-0611
>Email: Don.mercado@lmco.com
>
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