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Re: Colorado Pocket Dosimeter Readings
What was required is in concordance with Safety Culture understanding, as
published in the IAEA BSS Safety Series 115, Ed. 1996,
"The assembly of characteristics and attitudes in organizations and
individuals which establishes that, as an overriding priority, protection
and safety issues receive the attention warranted by their
significance" -That's mean: Problems affecting protection and safety be
promptly identified and corrected in a manner commensurate with their
importance.
A good safety culture will be inherent in the thoughts and actions of
individuals at all levels of an organization, creating a high quality
defense-in-depth
against technical, human, and organizational failures. Senior management
should ensure that their organization has a safety management system that
provides a structured and systematic means of achieving and maintaining high
standards of safety performance.
Jose Julio Rozental
joseroze@netvision.net.il
Israel
----- Original Message -----
From: Ed Stroud <ed.stroud@state.co.us>
To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 8:40 PM
Subject: Colorado Pocket Dosimeter Readings
Mr. Bristow,
What you failed to explain in your posting is that this dosimetry
requirement is part of an enforcement action against a specific
radiography company as a result of an overexposure incident. (>5
Rem/yr) The incident could have been prevented if the RSO had been
comparing pocket dosimeter readings with the monthly TLD reports. If he
had been making this comparison in the months prior to the overexposure,
he would have noted that the pocket dosimeter dose was under-reporting
the TLD exposure by 50%. The corrective action was taken to force the
RSO to more closely monitor his dosimetry program and to prevent
additional overexposures of this type. It should also be noted that
this particular radiography company has been the subject of other
escalated enforcement actions in the recent past. If you have any
questions concerning this issue, please feel free to contact me
directly.
Ed Stroud, Health Physicist
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
ed.stroud@state.co.us
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