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Re[2]: Reseachers do their monthly lab survey?
We do it both ways. The investigator is responsible for doing
complete surveys on a weekly basis, or after each use if use is less
frequent than weekly. In addition Radiation Control personnel do spot
check surveys in each lab on a monthly basis. These checks are not
comprehensive surveys but involve swipes of three or four high use
locations in a lab as well as a quick meter survey if gamma emitters
are used.
Investigator survey records are reviewed as a part of our routine
laboratory inspections. We also do a complete independent
contamination survey at that time. These inspection are performed on
a frequency ranging from quarterly to annually, depending on the use
level of the lab. We also spend a good part of our technician
training seminar emphasizing the inportance of contamination control,
contamination surveys and the maintenance of records of such surveys.
Ed Pombier University of Miami
Director and Radiation Safety Officer Radiation Control Center
epombier@mednet.med.miami.edu P.O. Box 016960 (R61)
Miami, FL 33101
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Subject: Re: Reseachers do their monthly lab survey?
Author: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at smtpmed
Date: 4/24/95 8:35 AM
George Xu asked,
>Any one of you use the researchers/labs to do their own monthly lab
>swipe/survey and you count the sample and keep the records? I would like to
>hear your comments. Thanks!
This struck me as an odd question. Kind of like asking state troopers if the
"use" the operators of vehicles to buckle their own seatbelts. Here at Ohio
State, if you're an Approved Supervisor (lingua franca translation:
Authorized User), your name is on the lab door, and you're responsible for
getting those regular surveys done, be they required monthly or weekly. And
if a quarterly inspection shows they haven't been getting done (or "no use"
documented), you're in violation.
I'd like to ask the converse. Do any RSO's send their own limited staff out
to insulate people from the reality of what they're about? I think users of
radioactivity ought to care enough about their own safe work environment to
do such things for themselves.
Albert Lee Vest The Ohio State University
Health Physicist B-042 Graves Hall
(614)292-0122 333 West 10th Avenue
Columbus OH 43210
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