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Drinking Water in radiological areas
alphadude:
There are checks and balances in place (bio assay) to mitigate such issues. its the ole saying "By god he may have died from heat stroke but at least he is not contaminated." duh he's dead....who cares about the contamination at this point..
Find a way to get water into the worker!
bio assays are part of the feed back loop- learn and fix, measure the uptake- find out why- ALARA you cant fix it unless u measure it..
RDTroja:
--- Quote from: alphadude on Nov 01, 2007, 02:59 ---There are checks and balances in place (bio assay) to mitigate such issues. its the ole saying "By god he may have died from heat stroke but at least he is not contaminated." duh he's dead....who cares about the contamination at this point..
Find a way to get water into the worker!
--- End quote ---
Bio-assays do not mitigate uptakes, they measure them. I agree that if the choice is between heat-related illness or risk of uptake, by all means give the water. But having water in containment is often a way to keep the workers in there longer than they would be otherwise... added risk for the sake of the schedule.
Certainly there are ways to reduce the risk, but I have been put in a situation many times where the controls were less than I considered adequate, but I had no choice but to allow the situation to exist (or quit.) One of the battles I chose not to fight after expressing my opinion.
Find a way to get the worker out of the area for his refreshment!
rjc4243:
The use of proximity switches to turn on a drinking fountain with a pump from bottled water through the cooler, works very well. The workers only need to be near the fountain, and no one has to touch it to obtain a drink of cool water. My thoughts only.
Hasher:
Thank you wlrun3. I have e-mailed the folks at Millstone. I was on the phone with WANO this morning and the question was not able to be immediately answered there either.
I have used the "cool tents" etc before and I don't like the practice of managing refridgerators or coolers in C-zones, but I firmly believe we have to hydrate people or we will have to carry out someone and it is a lot harder monitoring an unconscious person than a cooler.
Having said that, we have drinking fountains throughout the plant. We even have a coffee shop inside our "RCA".
I am looking for a facility that has year round drinking water more so than a short term area to mitigate heat stress. (I will take whatever I can get though)
Thanks again for the information and as always the lively discussion. Makes me want buy a pint for each and every one you.
illegalsmile:
I'm PM'ing you a contact number for a pretty good program I saw.
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