Re: Rad Safety Training - HazMat Team

[William V Lipton <liptonw@dteenergy.com>]

If this involves radiography, I remember reading about an incident where
radiographers were working on a bridge.  There were also painters working on
the bridge who had not been notified of the radiography.  Either there was no
boundary or the painters ignored it, but they ended up painting the radiography
source!  I'm sure that I read about this, but I did not save the document and
have not been able to find it, again.

The SL1 incident is also an interesting story.  There's also a film on this,
although it may no longer be available.  There's plenty of written material
about this, however.

As a personal experience, I used to survey labs where iodinations were
performed.  If I found  contamination, my standard practice was to call in the
lab workers for thyroid counts.  There was usually a good correlation between
lab contamination levels and the thyroid uptake of at least one of the lab
workers.  One exception was an employee whose lab often had iodine
contamination.  Despite repeated thyroid counts, there was never any uptake.
Finally, after about 6 months, and 10 thyroid counts, of this. she let me know
that she didn't have a thyroid - the perfect radioiodine worker!

The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
It's not about dose, it's about trust.

Bill Lipton
liptonw@dteenergy.com

jgreco@kodak.com wrote:

> I'm updating rad safety training to be provided to our HazMat and security
> staff, and am looking for
> new material.   These guys love anecdotes and stories, which I've used in
> the past to get points
> across.  Do any radsafers have some good rad-related emergency response
> stories they
> can share, or other materials/data that they've found effective?  I'll even
> take semi-true or
> slight exaggerations.
>
> Thx in advance.
>
> Joe Greco
> jgreco@kodak.com
>
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