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Re: Principal Investigator?



To get around this, we call them "Radioactive Material Custodians".

At 02:06 PM 10/6/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>For those of you at Universities, what is your definition of a 
>>Principal Investigator? and how do you determine who can and who 
>>cannot be a Principal Investigator authorized to use radioactive 
>>material?
>
>We just had a discussion on this matter at our last Radiation Safety
>Committee meeting.  We (Rad Safety) have always said that a PI is the
>person who's name is on the permit for using radioactive materials.  The
>researchers say that the PI is the person responsible for the research and
>the person on the grant.  So, for example, one PI may have several related
>research projects taking place under one large grant with three or four
>labs taking part in the work.  Each lab may then have a separate permit
>with Rad Safety.  From our standpoint, we'd have several PIs; from the
>researchers' point of view, they have one PI and several investigators.  
>
>A semantic difference, to some extent, but it raised a lot of hackles until
>we realized it.
>
>Andy
>
>Andrew Karam, MS, CHP				
>RSO, University of Rochester			  
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>akaram@safety.rochester.edu
>
>"The mind is not a vessel to be filled  but a fire to be lighted" 
> Plutarch
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