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While it may seem
like a nice, conservative idea to be monitored by both your home and away
facility I do not think it is a good practice. At least not with
your official dose of record dosimeter. The occupational dose is monitored,
recorded and reported on a facility basis. You then need to sum doses
reported from various facilities. It wouldn't make any real difference if
you didn't get any real dose, but what happens when you wear both badges and
they both show measurable dose? Both facilities would read the badges, report
the dose, you'd get it reported by both facilities. If you
really want your own number, I suppose you could get a supplemental badge from
your home site and wear that for unofficial purposes.
If you need more,
here is a quote from DOE-STD-1098-99:
"Individuals should
not wear dosimeters issued by their resident facilites while being monitored by
a dosimeter at another facility unless authorized by the radiological control
manager or designee. Individuals should not expose their dosimeters to
security X-ray devices, excessive heat, or medical sources of radiation."
Chapter 5, Part I Section 511
Can anyone address the issue of
dosimeters and airport security?
If a radiation worker with a dosimeter wants to travel on an airliner
to visit another facility, should he/she take their own dosimeter with them?
Or, should they use the
facility's visitor badge? Any
idea what dose might be expected if the dosimeter goes through the x-ray
screening machine?
Thanks in
advance.
Thomas L. Morgan,
PhD
Director, Health
Physics
Radiation Safety
Officer
Isotope Products
Laboratories
661-309-1033
(voice)
661-257-8303
(fax)
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