RE: Dosimeter Placement

["Jim F. Herrold" <Herrold@uwyo.edu>]

In addition to the helpful replies already posted on this subject by
Sandy and others, I will add this tid bit: The proper location of the
dosimeter is specific and coded on the badge. Usually whole-body
dosimeters are worn on the front chest area, so that is the default. It
is inappropriate to wear such a badge on the hip, for example, because
this badge is also used to estimate dose to the lens of the eye (another
radiosensitive organ). If other areas are more likely to receive
exposures and you want to relocate the badge, you must specifically
request that type of badge. This is what I have been told by Landauer,
anyway. Is this how it is done by ICN and others? (Sandy?)


Jim F. Herrold
Radiation Safety Officer
University of Wyoming
Environmental Health & Safety
312 Merica Hall
Laramie, WY 82071

herrold@uwyo.edu
(307) 766-3277

DISCLAIMER: Nothing I say, write, or think (including this disclaimer)
represents the positions held by the University of Wyoming, Trustees,
President or ANYONE.



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>From: 	William McCabe[SMTP:WMCCABE@tnrcc.state.tx.us]
>Sent: 	Thursday, February 12, 1998 4:22 PM
>To: 	Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: 	Dosimeter Placement
>
>Can anybody refer me to studies and/or legal cases regarding the proper
>placement/wearing of dosimetry on the body.  I'm talking routine personnel
>whole body monitoring and not TLD finger rings, etc.  The issue
>developing/being revisited is an old one; that is that by wearing the TLD
>(or film badge) on the chest, the dose to the reproductive organs and/or
>bone marrow is underestimated and that through dose reconstruction it
>will be shown that the individual will/did develop cancer and/or that the
>individual's child developed cancer, or malformed, or...
>
>Please respond privately to e-mail below or to group if this is of general
>interest.
>
>William J. McCabe
>wmccabe@tnrcc.state.tx.us
>(512) 239-2252     fax: (512)239-6362
>