Re: Laboratories Returning Dosimetry

[LIPTONW@dteenergy.com]

While, I agree that researchers who willfully or repeatedly fail to comply 
with dosimetry requirements should lose their rad material priveleges, I am 
concerned about the use of training as a form of punishment.  This tends to 
create a poor attitude toward all training.  Generally, the problem is not a 
lack of knowledge or skills, so retraining is not needed.  If retraining is 
given, you should clearly communicate to the individual that the training is 
being required for a valid reason, not as part of a disciplinary process. 
 
The opinions expressed are strictly mine. 
It's not about dose, it's about trust. 
 
Bill Lipton 
liptonw@dteenergy.com 
 
 
You wrote: 
 
>> There are over 1000 researchers with 
>> dosimetry here and only 70% of them return their badges. I find this
number 
>> rather high. We have implemented fees on unreturned badges, but the cost 
>> does not seem to matter to them. 
 
>Since cost doesn't matter, hit them with procedural non- 
>compliance, and then remove their rad material privledges and  
>make them attend re-training. Perhaps treating them as the infants  
>they appear to be, might make them become a mature adult that is  
>supposed to not only wear their dosimetry (if they even do that) and  
>to return it, to obtain what their dose was. 

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