Interesting video regarding old instruments

There was a lot of instruments I recognised in the trays, I have a lot of them myself, the concentration of Radium would have been massive in the storerooms and as a result the authorites would have had no choice but to clean it up. Smashing them into the storage containers wasn’t the smartest move however as that would have spead more contamination. I guess the value of the gauges will go up now!

I suppose the real problem here was the concentration of contaminated instruments in one place – far more than even a museum would ever be likely to hold + many seemed to be stored outside in long since deteriorated packaging with little weather protection + they were in the middle of a residential area. An unusual set of circumstances that perhaps could have been explained better?

The comment about the forklift needs to considered in the context of the amount of protective gear everyone was wearing to avoid ingestion of radioactive material 😮

Good point smirky – working in close proximity to plant equipment with restricted movement and limited visibility is not a good situation + as someone else pointed out there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of hi-viz to aid the drivers of the plant to see the personnel!

All in all, apart from the waste of historic material, it seems odd there are so many H&S inconsistencies in what is obviously a H&S promotional video!

Interesting not wishing to pick holes in it but I wonder why the health physics team were not wearing face masks and yet the people they were scanning were wearing face masks?
The guy that was changing the filter in the airborne sampler, where there would be a high concentration of particles was not wearing any protective equipment either.

It does make you wonder about sites such as DM and Kingman where huge numbers of aircraft were broken up on site. Nearer home and a few miles down the road is Dalgety Bay, the beach there is contaminated with radiation from gauges dumped from the HMS Donibristle.

The comment about the forklift needs to considered in the context of the amount of protective gear everyone was wearing

Not surprising, as no one was wearing a high viz jacket, so the forklift driver could have easily run over them.:diablo:

My opinion of the operation in this film is that all it was was a job creation scheme employing far more personnel than really needed, and it was really nothing more than a civil defence exercise.
Someone also needs to tell them the trick with roller conveyor is to let gravity do the work.

Excellent and thought-provoking video, thanks for posting.

Chucking the radium instruments into drums in a way that could have shattered the glass and released more contamination didn’t look too clever.

The comment about the forklift needs to considered in the context of the amount of protective gear everyone was wearing to avoid ingestion of radioactive material 😮

So the ones that are not “hot” are thrown in a dustbin then tipped from a great height into a skip – just to make absolutely sure they are rendered useless to anyone in the future I assume? 😡

Even the H & S “expert” seemed to indicate that working in proximity to fork lifts and machinery etc was the biggest danger here!

and dont forget – when you’ve been to the kharzi, wipe your **** then wash your hands ——–

mick

Crikey..

Blimey O’Reilley, keep these guys away from me…!:eek: “They aren’t gettin’ me gauges Captain Mainwaring..!!!” :p