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Personnel Contamination Events (PCE's)
Marvin:
Very well put G-reg. Unfortunate but true. Risk based radiological protection has taken a backseat to the litigators. I'm still waiting on that recalibration event. Maybe in our lifetime, maybe not.
wlrun3@aol.com:
--- Quote from: Marvin on Sep 29, 2008, 11:55 ---Very well put G-reg. Unfortunate but true. Risk based radiological protection has taken a backseat to the litigators. I'm still waiting on that recalibration event. Maybe in our lifetime, maybe not.
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...BIER 7 was very straight forward in its reimphasis of LNT and the ALARA concept...
...can we view nuisance personnel contaminations as collective precursors to a program deficiency that will, if not corrected, generate large, expensive, and dangerous contamination events...
Marvin:
The collective precursor approach is certainly a valid argument, which pushes the pendulum towards protection. But even this argument can be easily disputed when looking at it from a pure risk-based approach.
Are the resources used to identify, track, and recover from personnel contamination events commensurate with the risks? Who even knows where we are on the protection vs. production scale when it comes to this specific topic? Even the specific spot on the scale is subjective and ambiguous.
We are trying to measure the absence of a negative consequence which will be debatable long after we are gone. We will all be employable as long as the debate continues, so from that perspective, we should continue to document everything down to the nat's behind and crank up the volume on the frisker. Maybe even install little mini-amp's and Bose speakers to make sure the unfortunate production oriented victim is traumatized to the point of "coming over to the other side". We might even consider changing frisker speaker output to play the theme from "jaws" rather than that annoying clicking sound. ;D
wlrun3@aol.com:
--- Quote from: Marvin on Sep 30, 2008, 06:46 ---The collective precursor approach is certainly a valid argument, which pushes the pendulum towards protection. But even this argument can be easily disputed when looking at it from a pure risk-based approach.
Are the resources used to identify, track, and recover from personnel contamination events commensurate with the risks? Who even knows where we are on the protection vs. production scale when it comes to this specific topic? Even the specific spot on the scale is subjective and ambiguous.
We are trying to measure the absence of a negative consequence which will be debatable long after we are gone. We will all be employable as long as the debate continues, so from that perspective, we should continue to document everything down to the nat's behind and crank up the volume on the frisker. Maybe even install little mini-amp's and Bose speakers to make sure the unfortunate production oriented victim is traumatized to the point of "coming over to the other side". We might even consider changing frisker speaker output to play the theme from "jaws" rather than that annoying clicking sound. ;D
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...we can, in simple language, explain that an intake of 100k dpm equates to several mR...
... that most of the contaminant is excreted rapidly...
... that one worker in twenty five hundred per rem received will develop a fatal cancer due to their exposure...
...that, comparatively, five hundred of twenty five hundred members of the general public will develop a fatal cancer due to their environment...
...we can develop a contagious sense of pride in our industry and relay a message of respect and gratitude to the worker who is allowing us to exist in our supporting role...
...we can, collectively and optimistically, instill in the worker a well informed and common sense second nature in respect to contamination...
...we can explain, unspectacularily, the consequences of the loss of control of large ammounts of contamination...
...your post was well written...thankyou
Dave Warren:
I am doing a Root Cause Analysis regarding excessive PCE's for the next 5 weeks.
I will let you know what the real truth is....;)
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