RE: Asking for opinions -Reply

["Turpin, Baynard" <Baynard.Turpin@rfets.gov>]

Just prior to the RadCon Manual going into effect, one DOE facility I am
familiar with had not figured out how to properly maintain a badge board and
was not willing make workers responsible for picking up and returning their
TLDs to a specified location.  They opted to let every one take their TLDs
home to beat the requirements of Article 511.8 ("The practice at some
facilities of taking TLDs off-site is discouraged and shall not be
implemented where not in place.").  A "technical basis" was done to "bless"
the off-site dose as being the same as background at any given badge rack.

Baynard Turpin
Regulatory Compliance/Performance Assessments
Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site
ENERCON SERVICES, Inc.
baynard.turpin@rfets.gov

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	jack bell [SMTP:bellstar@erols.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, September 15, 1999 9:56 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	Re: Asking for opinions -Reply
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> 
> Robert,
> 
> I have never worked at a facility where the badged employees were allowed
> to
> take their badges (e.g.,TLDs) off site.
> 
> How did your dosimetry people separate the "on site" or "occupational"
> dose
> from the off site, non-occupational dose?
> 
> Jack Bell, bellstar@erols.com
> 
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