RE: NCRP 49 Occupancy Factors

["Carlisle, Sara" <carlisles@aecl.ca>]

Some things never change - most of the women's washrooms at AECL have
small anterooms with couches.  Usually used for coffee breaks, lunch
breaks.  Always wondered why we were so privileged - never crossed my
mind that the couches were for PMS recovery!!

No doubt when our current "space audit" is completed, our "rest rooms"
will become a thing of the past....

Sara Carlisle
Radiation Biology and Health Physics Branch
AECL
Chalk River, ON

carlisles@aecl.ca

> ----------
> From: 	rkathren@tricity.wsu.edu[SMTP:rkathren@tricity.wsu.edu]
> Reply To: 	radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: 	Thursday, May 21, 1998 7:01 PM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	Re: NCRP 49 Occupancy Factors
> 
> Mike --
> 
> Not a simpleton at all -- a very good question.  At the risk of
> incurring
> someone's wrath, I'll take a stab at it -- in the old days, long
> before
> unisex toilets and PC, women's toilets were provided with a couch or
> lounge
> (hence the name rest room); this was even mandated by law or
> regulation in
> some states (California was one.  The purpose, generally unstated, was
> to
> allow a woman the opportunity to lie down or to rest during menstrual
> periods which were presumed to cause distress and difficulty.  Some
> jusidictions even required the employer to permit a woman to spend a
> certain
> number of hours in the rest room.  Since the time in the 'rest romm'
> would
> typically be longer than in the 'toilet', the difference in T.  Note
> that
> public toilets were usually just that -- no special accomodations.
> The
> couches etc. were usually found only in toilets or rest rooms used by
> female
> employees.
> 
> Ron Kathren
> 
>    At 01:38 PM 5/21/98 -0500, malewandowski1@mmm.com wrote:
> >Here is a chance to educate a simpleton.  
> >
> >While reviewing NCRP 49, Structural Shielding Design and Evaluation
> for
> >Medical Use of X Rays and Gamma Rays of Energies up to 10 MeV, Table
> 4 -
> >Occupancy factors for non-occupationally exposed persons, I developed
> >the following question.
> >
> >What is the difference between a "rest room" (T=1/4) and a "toilet"
> >(T=1/16)?
> >
> >Thanks for your thoughts,
> >
> >Mike Lewandowski
> >MALewandowski@MMM.com
> >(612) 737-4452
> >
> >
>