Re[4]: MONITORING UNIVERSITY HEALTH

[LASKV@ccmail.ceco.com]

Jim & other radsafers,

I suggest you contact some of the lawyers who deal with this litigation on a 
regular basis (Don Jose comes to mind & he's listed in the HPS membership 
directory which I don't have handy right now).  Last year he presented a 
discussion on RP Litigation to the Midwest Chapter of the Health Physics 
Society.  Legal action has been implemented for personnel who took less than 100
mrem of exposure - lifetime.  I know of several lawsuits that were on this level
although I don't have the data available.  

John Van Horn HP/Instructor
ComEd Lasalle Station
LASKV@ceco.com


These are my own opinions & all the rest of the standard stuff.

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Subject: RE: Re[2]: MONITORING UNIVERSITY HEALTH
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at INTERNET
Date:    4/30/96 4:34 PM


     
Sandy Perle wrote:
     
I will maintain my opinion based on observance of many law suits being 
brought for doses that are well below regulatory as well as "monitoring not 
required" thresholds.
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Sandy:
     
I'm curious. What kind of exposures are you accustomed to seeing on a 
regular basis? In the type of research conducted at UW (using millicurie 
amounts of P-32 or I-125) it is very rare if anyone's badge registers above 
10 mrem in a month. In the last ten years the most anyone has gotten in a 
year was 300 mrem. (We're talking about background levels here.) Under those 
circumstances I find it hard to believe anyone would even attempt a lawsuit, 
let alone have even a remote chance of being  successful.
     
If Sandy or anyone out there can site specific lawsuits which were the 
result of  low-level exposures I will give the information to our risk 
manager.
     
Jim Herrold, RSO
University of Wyoming
herrold@uwyo.edu