Re: Cleaning Iodine Therapy Patient Rooms

["J. J. Rozental" <josrozen@netmedia.net.il>]

Dear Chris, 

Licensees and employers of workers who are engaged in activities that
involve  or could involve occupational  exposure are responsible to engage
appropriate  human resources as needed and also are responsible to provide
appropriate training in protection and safety to ensure the necessary level
of competence. 
If you are the Radiation Protection Officer,  you are responsible to oversee
the application of the above statement. Licensee's decision, in case of
violation,  do not exclude your responsibility, if you accept non adequate
workers. Non adequate workers, increase the possibility of errors, and as
you know, the occurrence of human errors must be reduced as practicable,
through appropriate staff selection and training.


J. J. Rozental
josrozen@netmedia.net.il
Israel


At 05:21 PM 5/21/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm sure this will disturb some people, but at our Cancer Treatment
>Hospital, the Nuclear Medicine group has lost some techs due to cut-backs.
>They do not have the time to decontaminate the therapy patient rooms after
>each patient, and the suggestion has been made that we train housekeeping
>staff to do this.
>
>I have reservations on several points, but want to hear if anyone is
>already successfully doing this, or alternatively, if they have tried it
>and found that it didn't work.
>
>Regards,
>
>Chris Davey
>
>
> RSO / LSO  Cross Cancer Institute  11560 University Avenue
> Edmonton   Alberta   Canada  T6G 1Z2
> (780)  432-8616   fax 432-8615
> email: cdavey@med.phys.ualberta.ca
> pager number 005, just call (780)  432-8771 and ask for that pager
>
>
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