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Re: Landauer's New Badge
The issue of the lower sensitivity of the new Landauer badges brings up some
interesting points. I too would like Landauer to reconsider their position on
not allowing a customer defined "threshold" for reporting, but, maybe the real
issue is do these individuals real "require" monitoring? In most cases I am
involved in the answer would be NO. So maybe we should be following the lead of
NIH and work on reducing the number of monitored individuals. Make the proper
assessments of the "likelihood" of receiving 10%, document that, and move on.
This would reduce the amount of work and cost of our programs without impacting
safety.
Do we provide similar monitoring for internal exposures? In the
biotech/research environments I have been involved in/with very little internal
exposure monitoring and/or assessment is performed but we will put a monitoring
badge on anyone and everyone. In some cases the potential may be greater than
that of any external exposure (i.e. tritium). And yes I have seen some RSO's
badge people who work with tritium, carbon-14 and S-35 exclusively and never
look into internal exposure assessment routinely.
I think the answer is in one's training and communication programs and after
reading the proceedings of the HPS Summer School, Management and Administration
of Radiation Safety Programs, my feeling that training and communication are two
distinctly different beasts is reconfirmed.
Just my opinion folks, no flames needed, I get enough from my two teen-aged boys
at home.
William A. Lorenzen
Children's Hospital
Boston, MA 02115
lorenzen_w@a1.tch.harvard.edu
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