General Public Education - doe-std-1128-98

DOE-STD-1128-98

3.6.4

General Public Education

If there are members of the public who live or work near a plutonium facility, a

plan for orientation of members of the public should be developed to inform them

of facility activities. Such a plan should include information on the concerns that

require protection of people from potential injuries by plutonium, the general

protective measures used at the facility to confine it and keep it out of the public

domain, and solicitation of information on the concerns of members of the local

public about plutonium. To the extent possible, efforts should be made to allay

those concerns. The information in the public education plan should also be

provided to local news media.

3.6.5

Training Qualifications

All training instructors and materials should meet the requirements in DOE Order

5480.20A (DOE, 1994j) and should meet the guidance in the standard,

Radiological Control, Ch. 1. (DOE, 2004).

Each plutonium facility should develop performance-based training that reflects

radiological conditions present at the facility. This training should be monitored to

ensure that site specific, worker-performance-based measures, and practical factors

are included in the plutonium training.

3.6.6

Health Physicist Training Involvement

Facility health physicists should have comprehensive knowledge of all of the

material on plutonium radiation safety that is included in the training programs for

radiation workers and RCTs.

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