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Unique safety manual for experimental personnel [electronic resource].

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Menlo Park, Calif. : Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 1979.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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Pages: 10 : digital, PDF file
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Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary
Within a few months of the discovery of x-rays the first radiation injuries were reported (ta71). During the past thirty years both the number and complexity of x-ray analytical units have increased markedly. The world-wide number of incidents leading to severe injury has also increased. For analytical x-ray machines the need for engineered and administrative safeguards has long been recognized. At Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) the personnel protection system has been carefully designed to maximize safety and minimize experimental interference. However, all possible experimental configurations cannot be anticipated and some interference is to be expected. There are means by which safeguards can be substituted as long as these substitutions do not degrade the existing degree of safety. any substitutions must be evaluated by the Radiation Safety Committee, the SSRL staff and Operational Health Physics. Some studies have indicated that between fifty and ninety percent of serious radiation accidents are directly related to human errors, i.e., ignoring administrative proccedures, by-passing engineered safeguards or by inadequate training. Lindell has estimated the annual probability of serious injury to be about 1:100 per macchine. No matter what the real probability of serious injury is the personnel protection system should reduce this risk to a value that approaches zero. It is hoped that this manual will bring into sharper focus some of the more serious results of unnecessary risk taking. We also hope that it will convey the very real necessity for safeguards which may at times appear to be arbitrary and unnecessary impediments to experimental purposes.
Report Numbers
E 1.99:slac-pub-2384
E 1.99: conf-791203-4
conf-791203-4
slac-pub-2384
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Published through SciTech Connect.
01/01/1979.
"slac-pub-2384"
" conf-791203-4"
Health Physics Society meeting, Honolulu, HI, USA, 10 Dec 1979.
Busick, D.D.; Warren, G.J.
Funding Information
EY-76-C-03-0515
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