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Re: HP staff size
Yes, I remember an article in RSO magazine or a similar magazine that
gave info on proper staff size. I will see if I can find it. However,
no matter who gives you information it will be wrong.
The staff size you need is totally dependant on your license, what
you want the service to be, the ability of the staff you have, and
the manner in which work is actually being done.
For example,
One school has students do surveys. These are generally of low
quality and only meet the regulatory requirement for a survey.
One school does no traditional surveys and only has HP staff go to
the labs and verify the paperwork that the lab keeps to show that
they are doing and documenting their self surveys.
Badging is not a good indicator. A few years ago we implemented a
strict process for determining who needs badges and we easily
decreased the number of badges we issue by a factor of 4 to 5.
Therefore, I suggest that you look at what YOU want the service
provided the client to be. That is, do you want to calibrate meters
or only verify that the users have had the instruments calibrated. Do
you want to only do minimal compliance surveys or do you want to use
the surveys as opportunities to provide guidance and training on ways
to do things and how to minimize researcher work. How much of the
work done by researchers do you want to have staff replace. For
example, do you want the researcher to decay correct inventory or do
your folks do it.
Remember that there is a difference in the work that can be done by
students, trainees, professionals, and those fully qualified at your
facility. Good performers can be expected to do both better work and
more of it. You seldom have a group of all good performers. A single
poor performer takes up others time to do their work and supervision
time to try and fix their performance.
Determine what you MUST do (committed to do in your license and your
regulatory requirements). Next determine what you want to do. Do not
forget things like care feeding of the Radiation Safety Committee.
Next determine how much time it takes a person to do these. Add 40%
or so to that for overhead, vacation, training, emergency response,
and etc. Next determine how many FTE these will take. For example, if
you have to do 1000 surveys in a year and it takes 5 hours for
preparation, performance, review, copying, filing, etc. Then it takes
5,000 FTE hours. If the work year has about 2000 hours this appears
that that it would take 2.5 FTE. In actuality it will take almost 4.
Finally, write down what you must do, what you want to do, how much
time it will take to do these, the administrative time, and your
estimate of staff needed. Have a professional at another institution
(such as ours or one similar to yours) review and provide comments.
Resolve comments. Complete documentation.
Voile, tis done.
Paul Lavely
RSO UC Berkeley
<lavelyp@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
>Dear Radsafers:
>
>I was wondering if there is any "guidance" or "data" on the size of HP staff
>for colleges. If you know of any info, please let me know. I would really
>appreciate it!
>
>Secondly, if you are working for a college in the United States, I would
>really appreciate your info of the following:
>
>College name: ____________________________________
>Number (full-time-equivalent) of staff for radiation safety: ___________
>Number (full-time-equivalent) of student technicians (being paied by hourly
>basis): ______________
>Number of personal monitoring badge users (if you know):
>_____________________
>
>I am trying to figure out the optimum number of staff for our radaition
>safety program. As I get the data, I will also share these with you. I
>appreciate your help and have a great day!
>
>Chan
>
>------------------------------------------
>Chan-Hyeong Kim, Ph.D
>Assistant Research Professor
>Radiation Safety Officer
>Dept of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nucl Eng
>NES Bldg 1-19, Tibbits Ave.
>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
>Troy, NY 12180-3590
>Office: (518) 276-2212
>Cellular: (518) 369-2360
>Fax: (518) 276-4832
>Email: kimc@rpi.edu
>Web: http://www.rpi.edu/~kimc
>------------------------------------------
>
>
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