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Jack,
Sorry
to throw a wet towel on your flaming insistence that the twain shall never meet
but it has in the DoD. All items containing radioactive material now
procured by the DoD supply system is required to come with a MSDS. This
was done for several reason such as identification, to provide shipping
information and for hazard communication.
I am
not passing judgment on the idea just letting you know it is being
done.
Tim Hart
Radiation Protection Manager
NAVSEADET
RASO
NWS P.O. Drawer 260
Yorktown, VA 23691-0260
Commercial: (757)
887-4692
DSN: 953-4692
Fax: (757) 887-3235
"The aging
process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a
snowball." Doug Larson
1. An MSDS is OSHA-specified as part of its
right-to-know regulation; we aren't governed by them. If we were, we'd have to
allow respirators any time a worker wanted one. Although they've also adopted
the ALARA approach, we don't really have much in common with what they
do.
2. Radioactive materials aren't (generally)
considered "hazardous" materials; when combined with hazardous waste,
radioactive waste becomes mixed waste. So the bottom line is that there's a
difference and never the twain shall meet.
I've
mentioned before that when I taught the NRC 40-hour RSO course to the CIH
crowd, they would get really upset with me right off the bat when I told them
that the chemicals they worked with were much more dangerous than anything
they'd run into as RSOs. By the time we finished bio effects on day two (with
the risk in perspective to everyday biological risks), I had no more
arguments. Of course, there was the fact that we always had to spend the first
four hours on Monday on math (algebra) review . . . might have had something
to do with reminding them that there were things they didn't know or
remember.
Jack Earley
Radiological
Engineer
Good Afternoon:
I have been asked by a client if I have access to an MSDS (or something
with similar information as would be found in a MSDS) for both ionizing and
non-ionizing radiation. I know of no such document but then I don't
know everything. If anyone knows of where I might obtain such
documents or if you have developed something similar for your facility and
are willing to share them I would appreciate it. Thank you in
advance.
Mitchell W. Davis, RRPT Health
Physicist 915-697-3523 915-349-4824 Cell radiation@cox.net
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