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Well, here is hat eater.......an employer that
requires a person to work in a building that enhances naturally occurring radon
emanations is required to account for the internal exposure, right?
H. Dean Chaney, CHP
URS Corp. Sacramento, CA
(916) 679-2086
"In science there is only physics; everything else is stamp
collecting."
--Ernest Rutherford
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 9:20
PM
Subject: Re: Dosimeters and Airport
Security
In a message dated 01/09/2003 9:17:09 PM Pacific Standard
Time, magna1@jps.net writes:
Therefore, an employer that requires an employee to travel, say
by jet aircraft at high altitudes, is supposed to account for the high
altitude exposure (not natural background, per se, but maybe enhanced by the
high altitude of the flight) and the additional exposure from penetrating
x-rays at the airport....really?
I think, and I'm not
speaking for any agency, that the high altitude exposure would be considered
part of the "natural background," but that the x-rays at the airport would
not, although, if anyone actually gets a measurable exposure from the x-ray
machines at the airports while passing through security, even a dozen times a
month, I'll eat my hat.
Fortunately, no matter what the case, I do not
own any hats.
Barbara
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