Exposure to radiation
PA Wellington Two persons suffered unnecessary exposure to radiation when recommended safety procedures were not followed and equipment malfunction was not detected, according to the Health Department’s annual report tabled in Parliament. In one case, the person suffered a dose about three
times higher than the annual occupational dose limited, but was still well below a level which would cause acute injury, it said. The National Radiation Laboratory was also notified of two other incidents during the year where industrial radiography equipment malfunctioned but corrective action was taken before personnel were exposed unnecessarily to
radiation. During the last six months of 1984, three industrial radiation sources were sent out of New Zealand in defective packaging or with seriously misleading errors in documentation. The report said each case had been investigated in conjunction with the Ministry of Transport, shipping agents, and the firms originating the shipments.
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