REHS

Rutgers Environmental Health and Safety

Welcome to my office !

I worked for the Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, in the Radiation Safety department - which is a group of the REHS department. I performed the duties of an assistant Health Physicist (my official title was Radiation Specialist), conducting routine procedures while always being ready for any radiological incident that may arise at Rutgers. Here is a pictoral record of what I did:

First, here were my Co-workers, Ira, myself, and Olga (left to right). We are pictured in the Companies Yacht, also known as the sinking ship of REHS (an inside joke):

Some art sculpture that never made it to NY meusem of art, but made it to the back of REHS :

Here is Pat and my boss, Debbie, discussing how to work out a dose from a bio assay. Tough Stuff !

So here begins the tour.... (hold on tight)

Here is the back lab where the liquid scintillation counter and gamma counter as well as thyroid counters are located. The big grey thing in the back is a counting housing that is made of steel from ships that were decomissioned before the end of WWII. Why ? Because they are free from contamination from fallout from nuclear weapons (well I thougt it was neat)"

I was responsible for the maintainence and calibration of all the many instruments at REHS, as well as tha anual calibration of the many "authoree's" instruments. Here is a picture of a few of REHS' survey meters :

As I have mentioned, it was my duty to calibrate the instruments, so here is a picture of my doing so. I am shown calibrating a Ludlum model 3 survery meter, with a 44-7 GM probe:

The less glorious, but non the less health physics duty, was to inspect, record, and deliver all radioactive materials that come into the university. This is also completely my domain. OOOWWWWW AHHHHHH.