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

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

While cleaning up a P-32 spill in one of our research

buildings, a security guard asked, "How dangerous is

this stuff?"  I said, "It is okay as long as you don't

link the floor."



This may have nothing to do with this link, but I felt

like telling this story.



--- HP Dean <RadConDean@comcast.net> wrote:

> Been there and done that and still received a "no

> way will we enter the area

> in an emergency" no from a major city fire

> department and law enforcement

> agency.  The paint on the radioactive material signs

> would produced more of

> a health hazard than the stuff in side, if ingested.

>  They said, they would

> actually wait till we arrived and pulled the body

> out of the area, or such

> and such.

> 

> Dean Chaney, CHP

> 

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

> From: "William V Lipton" <liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM>

> To: "Bradt, Clayton"

> <Clayton.Bradt@LABOR.STATE.NY.US>

> Cc: "Radsafe-Digest (E-mail)"

> <radsafe-digest@list.vanderbilt.edu>;

> <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>

> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 4:20 AM

> Subject: Re: OSHA & Radiation (was: Badges for

> surgery)

> 

> 

> > It's a good idea for a facility to provide

> training to local emergency

> response

> > organizations, or, as a minimum, give them a tour

> of the facility.

> >

> > The opinions expressed are strictly mine.

> > It's not about dose, it's about trust.

> > Curies forever.

> >

> > Bill Lipton

> > liptonw@dteenergy.com

> >

> >

. . .



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"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

Thomas Jefferson



-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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