RE: Definition of Clothing Contamination

["Lavera, Ron" <Ron.Lavera@nypa.gov>]

An important distinction to remember is if the scrubs are worn under PCs or
if the scrubs are worn as the outer layer of clothing.  Granted, my
experience in this area is some what limited, but I believe that some places
use scrubs instead of PCs to reduce heat stress concerns.  

Maybe a few of the HP contractor technicians that are out there can comment
on this.

... mine and mine alone ...

Ron LaVera
Lavera.r@nypa.gov

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Eric Bickel [mailto:wdwrkr@home.ifx.net]
		Sent:	Monday, July 12, 1999 9:52 AM
		To:	Multiple recipients of list
		Subject:	Re: Definition of Clothing Contamination

		Leon-
		My previous experience in the commercial arena (NRC Region
IV) was that company supplied modesty garments were not contamination
incidents as they were owned and laundered by the company and only allowed
to be worn under anti-C clothing.  (As we used portal monitors, we still
investigated the cause and tried to correct it, but it did not go as a
personal clothing or skin contamination incident.  In that the modesty
garments were only worn under anti-C's with some residual level of
contamination, some low level of contamination would be expected.) If the
modesty garments are issued to the individual, allowed to be worn any where
on site, and are laundered by them off-site, I would call them personal
clothing and count any contamination the same as personal clothing.    

		More recent experience in the DOE world goes the other way
and counts modesty garments as contamination incidents.  Indeed, many DOE
sites count contamination of anti-C clothing as a contamination incident.  

		In short, an argument can be made for either case.  Choose a
position and a defendable basis; someone or some regulator may question the
position, but if you have chosen your basis well, there is no harm.  The
real question is if you track contamination incidents (whatever the basis)
and take effective corrective actions.  

		Eric Bickel

		----- Original Message ----- 
		From: Leon E Brown <lebrown@cmsenergy.com>
		Subject: Definition of Clothing Contamination


		>However, the identification of contamination on modesty
garments
		> provided by the company to be worn under PCs poses a gray
area as to defining a clothing contamination incident.
		> 
		> For those of you RADSAFERs out there who track clothing
contamination incidents
		> and issue modesty garments to be worn under PCs, do you
classify contamination
		> identified on a modesty garment when performing a whole
body frisk as a clothing
		> contamination incident?


	
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