Practicing Health Physics?

["John E. Aperans" <JAPERANS@wsmr-emh81.army.mil>]

Melissa, you wrote:

>At the risk of bringing up yet another round of ranting...

So be it.

>"How much of your time is actually spent doing health physics?"

>(I admit that my situation is a little unusual. . . .

Not at all.  Here at our directorate, we have been using the terms
Health Physics and Radiation Safety in equal portions.  I think we
should have stuck with Health Physics and kept everyone in the dark.

Some of our project engineers heard "Radiation SAFETY" and made a
very broad association with safety in general.  Now I find that
about 50% of my time is taken up with Hazard Communication and
hazardous waste management.  After all, aren't we the safety
experts/forklift operators/[your task here]? 

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