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Title: Performance testing of personnel dosimetry services. Final report of a two-year pilot study, October 1977-September 1979

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5486534· OSTI ID:5486534

A two-year pilot study was conducted of the Health Physics Society Standards Committee (HPSSC) Standard titled, Criteria for Testing Personnel Dosimetry Performance. The objectives of the pilot study were: to give processors an opportunity to correct any problems that are uncovered; to develop operational and administrative prodedures to be used later by a permanent testing laboratory; and to determine whether the proposed HPSSC Standard provides an adequate and practical test of dosimetry performance. Fifty-nine dosimetry processors volunteered to submit dosimeters for test irradiations according to the requirements of the HPSSC Standard. The feasibility of using the HPSSC Standard for a future mandatory testing program for personnel dosimetry processors is discussed. This report shows the results of the pilot study and contains recommendations for revisions in the Standard that will make a mandatory testing program useful to regulatory agencies, dosimetry processors, and radiation workers that use personnel dosimeters.

Research Organization:
Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor (USA). School of Public Health
OSTI ID:
5486534
Report Number(s):
NUREG/CR-1064; TRN: 80-005944
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English