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Re: Badges for surgery
In the "good old days," a nonlicensed person was not cited by the NRC. Only his licensed employer was held accountable. That's changed. NRC enforcement policy now holds nonlicensed individuals accountable for compliance with regulations. Thus, a
surgeon who handles NRC licensed material and does not comply with monitoring requirements, i.e. wearing his dosimeter properly and changing it out on schedule, can be individually cited by the NRC, in addition to any citation for the licensee.
This citation, especially if the action was determined to be "willful," could cause the individual to be fined or prohibited from involvement in licensed activities.
Anyone who doubts that the NRC would do this should go to:
http://www.nrc.gov/what-we-do/regulatory/enforcement/current.html#individual
The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
It's not about dose, it's about trust.
Curies forever.
Bill Lipton
liptonw@dteenergy.com
alstonchris@netscape.net wrote:
> Caveat emptor. Some states may have rules like the one in Washington, which says (said?) that anyone "associated" with the operation of a fluoroscope shall be badged.
> On the other hand, if you issue badges to all of them, but half, or more, of them don't wear them routinely, or at all, then you're creating a possibly spurious database of their exposures. This was a real problem for me, at one place I worked.
>
> Cheers
> cja
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