Re: Badging Workers

["Randy Ross" <RNROSS@BCSC02.GOV.BC.CA>]

Radiation Protection Section
BC Ministry of Health

I'm glad someone else mentioned those disclaimers - Hopefully those are the
things that will demonstrate to those we work for that when we open our mouths
and put our feets in it - which we (you) all do - that we were not representing
anybody or any institution other than ourselves.  I personally think that the
"smart alec" disclaimers will prove to be worse than no disclaimer when trouble
comes.
The disclaimer thing is not my idea. Those "above" me thought it would be best
est.
s

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In response to William Fendt's ponderings about the frequency of badging for
ancillary personnel at universities:  At Princeton we badge quite a number of
ancillary personnel including custodial staff, maintenance personnel, certain
receiving personnel, a glassblower here and there, all in the science depart-
ments.  It's not a policy I'm thrilled with but not all of us health physicists
here at the University agree on the issue, so extensive badging continues.

By the way, a question for those of you with your sometimes long and sometimes
amusing disclaimers:  did you decide on your own that it was a wise idea to in-
clude a disclaimer or are you required by your organization to include it?
Sign me,

Just Curious,
Sue Dupre/Health Physicist/Princeton University