Re: Landauer's New Badge

[Richard Smart <R.Smart@unsw.edu.au>]

We struck this problem in Australia some time ago when we swapped from a
film badge service (lower limit of 20 mrem, 200 uSv) to TLD (lower limit of
1 mrem, 10 uSv).

A substantial education program was necessary to allay the fears of
individuals who had previously recorded zero on every badge.  After about
12 months everyone got used to the new detection limit and I haven't had
problems since.

Richard

At 06:56 P 9.9.98 -0500, you wrote:
>Radsafers,
>
>Landauer is promoting a new Al(2)O(3) personnel monitoring badge which they
>claim will see 1 mrem and it will be reported.  Does any other Radsafers feel
>uncomfortable with this new lower sensitivity?  It appears capable of
creating
>new problems with exposed personnel who have never received an exposure and
>now they will see the 
>1 to 9 mrems on their monthhly reports rather than the "m" and 12x this on
>their yearly report.
>
>
>Bob Ryan
>ryanchp@aol.com
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Richard Smart PhD
Department of Nuclear Medicine
St. George Hospital
Kogarah, NSW 2217
Australia
Tel:61 2 9350 3112
Fax:61 2 9350 3991
Email:R.Smart@unsw.edu.au
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