Re: Posting and Monitoring Requirements @ DOE Facilities

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@yahoo.com>]

My impression is that whether you monitor workers'

exposures or not, you can always be sued.  To win the

case requires that you show you have kept exposures

below regulatory levels.



--- jjcohen <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET> wrote:

> Monitoring programs may not only be an ineffective

> means of avoiding lawsuits, they could be

> counterproductive in this regard. Increased levels

> of monitoring suggest increased levels concern

> toward the potential hazard. Negative monitoring

> results may indicate no hazard, but in legal

> actions, are more likely to indicate inadequate or

> ineffective monitoring procedures.

> Jerry Cohen

> 

> 

>   ----- Original Message ----- 

>   From: thomas.labone@SRS.GOV 

>   To: Allen, David 

>   Cc: William V Lipton ;

> owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu ; Radsafe list ;

> Stanford Dosimetry ; Tom.Goff@wipp.ws 

>   Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 8:49 AM

>   Subject: RE: Posting and Monitoring Requirements @

> DOE Facilities

> 

> 

> 

>   If you want to monitor workers to demonstrate

> compliance with the regulations, follow the DOE

> regulations and guidance.  If you want to monitor

> workers to avoid or win lawsuits, follow the

> guidance of your general counsel.  As HPs we may

> feel that a TLD is cheap insurance against

> litigation, but our lawyers may feel that it is no

> insurance.  Ask them. 

> 

>  . . .



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"Eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty and . . . you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing."

Andrew Jackson



-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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