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Re: How many errors?



Locate, Isolate, Determine integrity. It appears the man is wearing 

personal monitoring devices (around his neck), has a microrem and is 

approaching a pile slowly. What more can he do at this point? The article 

reads: "searching for abandoned radioactive equipment".





--On Monday, December 08, 2003 1:15 PM +0300 Jose Julio Rozental 

<joseroze@netvision.net.il> wrote:



>

> Dear colleagues

>

> How many errors can you find in the picture?  "A government worker

> searches for abandoned radioactive equipment" - And please take into

> consideration that he is a government worker. -  If you have to train

> first responders to deal with orphan sources that you have not the idea

> about the chemical/physical form, or abandoned sources like Goiania, this

> is not a good visual communication.

>

> Jose Julio Rozental

> joseroze@netvision.net.il

> Israel

>

> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21879-2003Nov29.html

> Smugglers Enticed by Dirty Bomb Components

> Radioactive Materials Are Sought Worldwide

>

> By Joby Warrick

> Washington Post Staff Writer

> Sunday, November 30, 2003; Page A01

>

>

> TBILISI, Georgia -- When police caught up with him on May 31, Tedo

> Makeria was headed toward Tbilisi's main rail station, his lethal cargo

> hidden in boxes lined with lead so thick his taxi sagged from the weight.

> The suspicious policeman who halted the cab had barely cracked the trunk

> when he noticed the boxes and the distinctive labels that warned,

> "Danger: Radiation."

> ................................................................







Celia



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