Re: To Badge, or Not To Badge

["George Anastas" <ANASTASG@facmgmtserver.fm.csus.edu>]

Erik:

You are right on, badging is protective of our employer.  All we can do 
is provide the most prudent advice possible

Now to go to a fast food eatery and have hot coffee spilled on me, 
$2.7 million now "reduced" (!!!!????) to $500 k.  And I can't get people 
to come to haz com training.  The world may be upsidedown.

Hang in there.

George Anastas



From:          Erick Lindstrom <avrel@trex.oscs.montana.edu>

Subject:       To Badge, or Not To Badge

I c
But then don't you open the door for some lawyer to seduce a 
"concerned" client
and commence to litigate!  Isn't that why we continue to monitor those 
groups
anyway?  Lawsuitphobia!!!

I certainly don't believe that a dosimeter will preclude a successful 
lawsuit. 
But it seems that we are also in the business of protecting our 
employers from 
the barristers (and many of our workers from risks that don't even 
exist).  In 
that light, wouldn't you rather have a hard-and-fast dosimetry record 
as 
opposed to a hat full of excuses and explainations for why you 
ceased 
monitoring?  

 we gotta adhere to the goofy 
"political correctness" that permeates our environment. 

-Erick

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