RE: OSHA & Radiation (was: Badges for surgery)

[Steven Dapra <sjd@swcp.com>]

Jan. 15



	I wrote:



	"EMTs get PAID to take risks.  That comes with the territory, so get in

there and get busy doing your job!"



	Louis Molino wrote:



	"I take great offense (not personally mind you PROFESSIONALLY). WELL

TRAINED EMT's and Firefighters WILL do the above BUT only HAVE A

RESPONSIBILITY to do so IF you (the public) give them the tools and

TRAINING that they need to do so. Failing that they have no RESPONSIBILITY

to risk their lives for you, nor do you (IMHO) have a right to expect them

to do it."



	It was not my intent to offend you, Louis, or anyone else.  The assumption

that the EMT was properly trained was implicit in what I said.  I would

NEVER say that someone should take a risk without the proper training and

equipment.  I support comprehensive training and proper equipment 100 percent.



	In the particular case I was commenting on, it should have been obvious to

the EMTs that there were other people in the building, and the injured man

had been injured while in the building that displayed the trefoil.  From a

logical standpoint it makes no sense to refuse to enter a building with

people in it merely because it has a trefoil.  Did the EMTs actually

believe the occupants of the building were in there deliberately exposing

themselves to "deadly radioactivity"?  My comments were meant as a plea for

taking a rational approach.  They were not a suggestion that anyone be

shortchanged on training and equipment.



Steven Dapra

sjd@swcp.com







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