Re: Assisting in Physicist's Training

[Sandy_Perle_at_USFPL201@email.fpl.com]

     Since the individual doesn't have the background to provide you with 
     any assistance with your current job accountabilities, I suggest that 
     you consider the following:
     
     1. Establish a schedule whereby the individual can observe various 
     functions being performed
     
     2. Establish the period of observation .. such as a few days a week 
     for a predetermined period. Maybe several months is just not 
     acceptable
     
     3. Who will the individual report to? Will you have control over when 
     and where he observes. If it is determined that the individual is just 
     in the way, you need the authority to say, time to go home today, or, 
     your time with us is at an end
     
     4. Provide the individual with all operating and maintenance procedure 
     prior to coming to your facility. This will reduce the potential for a 
     "multitude" of questions, which will only alienate your staff
     
     5. IF you do have the individual come into your facility to observe, 
     inform all of your staff as to the reasons why the individual is 
     there, and, what authority they have, and what they should do in case 
     there is a problem
     
     6. IF you allow the individual to perform a job function, which your 
     staff are trained for, with documentation, make sure that you document 
     this individual's activities and training .. Make sure that the 
     individual is supervised until deemed competent, as you would with 
     your own staff
     
     KEY POINT: Establish the ground rules upfront. DON'T wait until there 
     is a problem, which there will be. 
     
     Guess that should do it!
     
     Sandy Perle
     Supervisor Health Physics
     


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Subject: Assisting in Physicist's Training
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at Internet-Mail
Date:    6/23/95 1:31 PM


A question for all of you out there, particularly those in a 
university/hospital setting.  If a physicist (not necessarily 
health or medical) asked to work in your radiation safety office 
for a few months to get some experience, how would you handle it? 
This individual is preparing to take ACR certification exams, and 
needs some radiation safety training and experience.  
     
If you're generally short-staffed like we are, you have little time 
to spend training other individuals who don't absolutely need it. 
Do we charge for our services?   Any comments or suggestions would 
be appreciated.
     
Mary Beth Taormina
Radiation Safety Manager
Virginia Commonwealth University
mtaormina@ruby.vcu.edu