Word thanks for the insight! That should be the scandal but the article doesn’t seem to frame it that way: that it’s a failure of the management or operating procedures.
Do you have any idea how common something like this is? I know where I work it’s very easy for contaminated waste to end up in the wrong bin and it’s not like the bins get sorted before pickup.
Hard to say, it’s really on a site-by-site basis. Most places are very good at managing contamination (because you get in all kinds of shit if you’re not), but I know of at least one (privately-ran) place that had procedures so lax a contractor didn’t even realize he’d been contaminated until he drove to a different job at a different site and started setting off detectors. Generally, older sites are worse than newer sites, and this one’s pretty old.
Word thanks for the insight! That should be the scandal but the article doesn’t seem to frame it that way: that it’s a failure of the management or operating procedures.
Do you have any idea how common something like this is? I know where I work it’s very easy for contaminated waste to end up in the wrong bin and it’s not like the bins get sorted before pickup.
Hard to say, it’s really on a site-by-site basis. Most places are very good at managing contamination (because you get in all kinds of shit if you’re not), but I know of at least one (privately-ran) place that had procedures so lax a contractor didn’t even realize he’d been contaminated until he drove to a different job at a different site and started setting off detectors. Generally, older sites are worse than newer sites, and this one’s pretty old.