Re: Asking for opinions -Reply

["Charlie Darnell" <chuck_ed@hotmail.com>]

I usually just lurk here but will come out for this.  Not only can you not 
distinguish occupational dose from non-occupational dose, but you should 
watch a TLD fade legitimate doses, in a hot car for instance.  How can you 
correlate dosimetry when "Bubba" has been storing his TLD on the TV during 
his off hours?  Or what if you get a real smart worker who decides to carry 
his TLD for his chest X-ray or dental series?  You can't turn a TLD off a 
night.  If you let it voluntarily leave site you lose all control.  If a 
worker has a problem with his dose you have actually given up a very 
important investigative tool.  I realize these comments do not answer the 
original question but that is where the thread has gone.  The original 
question was inappropriate anyway.

"Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. "
Mae West

Charlie


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