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"Flaming
insistence"? You must have taken my comments much more seriously than they were
constructed. The war's w/ the other guys, remember? As to DoD choices, I'm happy
to say I'm no longer privy to them.
Re.
another comment I received (much more politely):
<<I dont think that something
has to be a hazardous waste for the OSHA right to know requirements to apply.
Further, I think that OSHA has legally applicable radiation standards
also...albeit ones that have not been updated since ICRP 2.
>>
I don't
believe that's what I said, but thanks for the info.
Jack Earley
Radiological
Engineer
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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