[ RadSafe ] Re: OSHA Federal Register Notice

[John Jacobus]

I would have to agree.  OSHA does not have the staff
to do the job.  Or any radiation safety related job. 
When we had a suspected exposure involving one of
accelerators, we contacted the local OSHA office.  We
never received a response.

--- Maury Siskel <maurysis at ev1.net> wrote:
> In my amateur opinion, this is akin to giving the
> OSHA political leaders 
> a toy chemisry set to play with and then to saddle
> the US with the 
> resulting absurd mess as though it was valid science
> and engineering -- 
> with a big price tag and an expanded regulatory
> empire -- just what the 
> nation needs.
> Maury&Dog   (Maury Siskel   maurysis at ev1.net)
> __________
> 'Waste not -- want not': The motto of absolutely no
> government agency 
> whatsoever.
> 
> ====================
> BLHamrick at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > Yes, that would be appropriate, at the very least.
> >
> > I believe Clayton's earlier characterization was
> apt. It appears OSHA 
> > is trying to reinvent the wheel. I think their
> call for public opinion 
> > on some of the issues they're trying to address is
> like taking a 
> > public opinion poll on how to perform brain
> surgery, or calling for a 
> > vote on whether or not the world is flat. It
> appears somewhat naive to 
> > me, and that makes me a little nervous, not as a
> regulator, but as a 
> > citizen who will end up paying for this
> > escapade.
> >
> > Barbara
> 
> 
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


		
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