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Re: Asking for opinions -Reply
I guess one could always come up with a situation and that would be a very
plausible one.
The plant I worked used electronic dosimetry which was within an amazing
2-5% of the TLD reading. Any good dosimetry program should question
discrepancies outside this range and medical administrations or contact with
medical admins would be a great question to ask.
We should also warn them not to store their TLD's next to their smoke
detectors. Just kidding. Please, no response on that comment.
Bob Denne
ATG
rdenne@worldnet.att.net
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From: William V Lipton <liptonw@dteenergy.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 5:26 AM
Subject: Re: Asking for opinions -Reply
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> Be prepared for a situation where the employee, or a member of his family,
> receives nuclear medicine treatment. The not too far out scenario is
that,
> while the employee is on vacation or otherwise unreachable, the badge
report
> comes back with an immediately reportable dose. Do you have a contingency
plan
> for this, or do you (and your management) like seeing your institution's
name
> in the headlines? (Frank Sinatra once reportedly said: "Say anything you
want
> about me, just spell my name correctly." The media will probably spell
your
> name correctly.)
>
> The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
> It's not about dose, it's about trust.
>
> Bill Lipton
> liptonw@dteenergy.com
>
> Robert Denne wrote:
>
> > Actually, there is a third option that worked well for us at commercial
> > plant in one of my previous lives, and that was to have all employees
take
> > there TLD's home with them. It was painful for about a month but to the
> > best of my knowledge is working well.
> >
> > The background issue is all but eliminated as is the question of whether
or
> > not a worker needs to be monitored when outside the protected area. The
> > question there is, what do you consider occupational dose and does it
> > include time spent in your office outside the protected area? Taking
the
> > TLD's home made things a lot cleaner.
> >
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> Be prepared for a situation where the employee, or a member of his family,
> receives nuclear medicine treatment. The not too far out scenario
> is that, while the employee is on vacation or otherwise unreachable, the
> badge report comes back with an immediately reportable dose. Do you
> have a contingency plan for this, or do you (and your management) like
> seeing your institution's name in the headlines? (Frank Sinatra once
> reportedly said: "Say anything you want about me, just spell my name
> correctly." The media will probably spell your name correctly.)
> <p>The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
> <br>It's not about dose, it's about trust.
> <p>Bill Lipton
> <br>liptonw@dteenergy.com
> <p>Robert Denne wrote:
> <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Actually, there is a third option that worked well
> for us at commercial
> <br>plant in one of my previous lives, and that was to have all
employees
> take
> <br>there TLD's home with them. It was painful for about a month
> but to the
> <br>best of my knowledge is working well.
> <p>The background issue is all but eliminated as is the question of
whether
> or
> <br>not a worker needs to be monitored when outside the protected
area.
> The
> <br>question there is, what do you consider occupational dose and does
> it
> <br>include time spent in your office outside the protected area?
> Taking the
> <br>TLD's home made things a lot cleaner.
> <br><a
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