Re: Shipping Question

["J. J. Rozental" <joseroze@netvision.net.il>]

Here are the questions. 

Should this incident be reported to the
authorities? Why/ not? 

 

Yes, should be reported, The Regulatory Authority will take the measures. Any incident has lessons to be learned and need to avoid recurrence. This is part of Safety Culture, problems affecting protection and safety be promptly identified and corrected in a manner commensurate with their importance.

 

If yes, who do you think is responsible for
reporting this incident to the authorities - the hospital, because they
were the shipper; the pharmacy, because they paid for the courier
service; or the courier service, because their driver abandoned the
material. The hospital and the nuclear pharmacy have radioactive
materials licenses.

 

All personnel on whom protection and safety depend should be appropriately training and qualified so that they understand their responsibilities and perform their duties with appropriate judgement and according to defined procedures. This means that principal parties shall, as appropriate communicate to the Regulatory Authority, the direct cause (why did it happen). RA will judge Why was not prevented and how to prevent recurrence and apply enforcement, if the case.

 

Jose Julio Rozental

joseroze@netvision.net.il

Israel

 

 

 

Comments/thoughts?

 

Ed Stroud
CDPHE
ed.stroud@state.co.us

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Ed Stroud <ed.stroud@state.co.us>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 7:27 PM

Subject: Shipping Question

Here's a shipping question for those 

interested. (This is an actual
incident)

A licensed nuclear pharmacy 

uses a private courier service to deliver
(and retrieve) unit doses and vials 

of medical isotopes to licensed
hospitals outside of their normal service 

area.  An incident occurs
where the courier, on a return trip from the 

hospital back to the
pharmacy, deliberately abandons a box of this material 

in a parking lot.
 A member of the public finds the box, which is marked 

and labeled per
DOT, and contacts the hospital.  The box is eventually 

returned to the
pharmacy.  Management at the hospital, nuclear pharmacy 

and the courier
service are aware of the incident.

Here are the 

questions.  Should this incident be reported to the
authorities? Why/why 

not?  If yes, who do you think is responsible for
reporting this 

incident to the authorities - the hospital, because they
were the shipper; 

the pharmacy, because they paid for the courier
service; or the courier 

service, because their driver abandoned the
material. The hospital and the 

nuclear pharmacy have radioactive
materials licenses. 


Comments/thoughts?

Ed Stroud
CDPHE
ed.stroud@state.co.us

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