RE: airport and radiation safety

["Lantz, Michael W(Z59078)" <MLANTZ@apsc.com>]

In years past, studies were conducted to evaluate the dose to airport 
personnel handling radiopharmaceuticals.  Also included were pilots 
and flight attendants.  For almost all of these workers, dosimetry was 
not required, so these studies were the only way to estimate their 
dose.  I believe that the work found that the annual doses were 
reasonably low.  The baggage personnel never handling many packages 
directly and the personnel on the planes were far away.

Followup studies on freight forwarders who handled large numbers of 
packages coming to small centralized facilities in different cities 
were, however, a different story, as far as I remember.

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From: 	trentino@iol.it[SMTP:trentino@iol.it]
Sent: 	Thursday, May 29, 1997 12:25 AM
To: 	Multiple recipients of list
Subject: 	airport and radiation safety

Hi to alla radsafers!

I'm interested in finding out if anybody of you is concerned in
radiation safety in an airport.
I was asked to evaluate the risk for the workers who manage and check
radioactive parcels arriving by air and those working with RX baggage 
checkers.
Is anybody interested?

Thanks, Mauro

Mauro Campoleoni
Health Physicist
Istituti Clinici di Perfezionamento
Via della Commenda, 12
20122 - Milano, Italy, tel. 39-2-57992166
trentino@iol.it
Mauro_Campoleoni@rcm.inet.it