Re: "Two-Person Rule"

["Mike Bohan" <mike.bohan@yale.edu>]

        Reply to:   RE>"Two-Person Rule"

Rod,

I don't know of any regulatory basis for this rule unless Georgia Tech committed
to it in their licensing,  but considering the recent MIT and NIH experiences,
the NRC may latch on to this suggestion and make it so.  (I hope not!)

Mike Bohan

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Date: 14/06/96 1:00 PM
To: Mike Bohan
From: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
        As one of Georgia Tech general radioactive materials laboratory
safety rules, we have the "Two-Person Rule", i.e., when working with
radioactive materials, never work alone.  Working alone being defined as the
performance of any work by an individual who is out of audio or visual range
of another individual for more than a few minutes at a time OR without
access to a telephone WITHIN the laboratory. 

        Our Nuclear Safeguards Committee has been asked to review the rule
with the possibility of exempting sealed sources like GC/ECD detectors
containing Ni-63 sources. 

        Does anyone know of any regulatory basis for such a "Two-Person
Rule"? Comment's on the use of such a rule, especially as it relates to
sealed sources, exemption limits, or enforcement experience would be
appreciated. 

        Rod Ice
        404/894-3621 
        E-mail:  rod.ice@nnrc.gatech.edu 

           
Rod Ice
Neely Nuclear Research Cener, Georgia Tech
Phone 404-894-3621
FAX   404-853-9325
EMail rod.ice@nnrc.gatech.edu