Re: Conundrum

[brackett@bright.net]

At 02:53 PM 4/25/2000 -0500, William V Lipton wrote:
>Trust me, I'm trying to be tactful:  You're completely wrong.
>
Trust me, I expect neither a tactful nor polite response from you.

DOE does not maintain a cooperative database.  Many DOE sites have multiple
contractors and subcontractors, some with their own HP departments.  One
company does not have a say in the "hiring" of another company's employees
although they may be working in their facilities.  An individual can go
between various facilities in the course of one day that are under the
jurisdiction of different companies.  Obviously he can't request a
termination report each time he leaves the facility to go to another.  He
may have a TLD assigned by one company and submit bioassay samples to
another.  In this type of situation, one company must take responsibility
for the worker, and it's his employer.  An Oak Ridge contractor was fined
for not doing such two years ago.

Liz Brackett

>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
>


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