Re: No response: sweaty surveys

[Franz Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>]

At 09:22 19.07.2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Help!!!!!
>
>There was only one response to my question on doing personnel alpha surveys
>when the person being surveyed is sweating.  
>

I have never encountered such a problem, but I would probably take a wipe
test on the skin with some appropriate material. One could wait until the
sweat has dried up. - But please do not ask me, how to refer your counts to
the contamination per square cm or square inch.....

Franz


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