Re: Dosimetry Processors: Use of Supplementary Information in Dose

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

Brian:

> You receive a dosimeter from a client/user along with a copy of an
> accident report indicating that the dosimeter (and a PIC) was left for two weeks
> in a locker in an area where radiography was being performed.

Specifically to your scenario above, we would only process the 
dosimeter for information, NOT use it for dose reporting at all, and 
only report the customer provided estimate. If the personnel badge 
was irradiated at all, when not in an occupational effort, the 
dosimeter should be considered "damaged" or "invalid" and no 
assumptions should be made to adjust the net result derived from 
processing that dosimeter. To do otherwise puts the processor, and 
the facility, in potential litigation, and liability for the 
assumptions made.


Sandy Perle
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