Re: medical misadventures

[AndrewsJP@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 9/6/2001 8:57:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 

liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM writes:



> Virtually every major event at a power reactor is reviewed by other power 
>
> reactors to determine whether they are vulnerable to a similar event, and 
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> corrective actions are taken, as appropriate.  I don't see that happening 
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> in the medical HP community.  Informal information exchange is important, 
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> but you should also have procedures that assure documented reviews of key 
>
> events. 


I don't see it happening in almost any other licensee class either.  As a 

onetime RSO for a radiography company and auditor of others, it clearly was 

not the policy of any of the companies to monitor the radiological accidents 

that occurred and to act proactively to prevent the same from happening.  

This is not to say that they ignored the potential for accidents, but that 

there was no active feedback from the industry to the users to help prevent 

similar accidents. I believe that RADSAFE is a constructive communication 

platform to help this process.


John Andrews

Knoxville, Tennessee