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Originally Posted by KatzPajamas
this from your link...
~He adds that while it isn't impossible for the cancer cases in the Boston airport workers to be linked to radiation exposure on the job, the "latency period between radiation exposure and a radiation-induced cancer" is generally years, not months.
"That being said, I see no reason at all why the TSA staff working the airport X-ray machines are not provided with film badges to monitor the radiation dose," says Brenner. "If they were working with X-ray machines in a hospital setting, they would certainly be wearing film badges."~
These statements are in line with what is taught in any Radiologic (X-Ray) Technologist school, under the heading of Radiation Safety! How TSA can be allowed to turn a blind eye to certain regulations and the safety of their employees and all travelers that pass thru AND NEAR these machines is amazing to me! X-Ray rooms are surrounded by lead walls to protect those outside the room! Those working in the rooms are provided with lead aprons and dosimeter/film badge exposure monitoring devices. Patients are not given unnecessary exams in an attempt to keep their exposure to a minimum, with strict risk/benefit policies in place.
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I would agree that badges should have given to all TSA agents upon deployment of the scanners......if that didn't happen under the previous administration then it should now.
But you missed this:
The TSA provided this May 2010 document from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) that states in reference to the "cancer cluster" claimed by the Boston union that "
15-25 cases of cancer over nine years among approximately 1100 employees are not an excess of cancer." NIOSH states that "it is unlikely that the cancers reported are associated with exposures from the TSA baggage screening machines at [Boston Logan International Airport]."