IEEE N42.17B

Description / Abstract: (This Foreword is not a part of ANSI N42.17B-1989, American National Standard Performance Specification for Health Physics Instrumentation—Occupational Airborne Radioactivity Monitoring Instrumentation.)

This standard is the responsibility of the Accredited Standards Committee N42 on Radiation Instrumentation.

Committee N42 delegated the development of the standard to its Subcommittee N42.1. Drafts were reviewed by Committee N42, Subcommittee N42.1, and other interested parties, and the comments received were utilized in producing the standard as finally approved and discussed. Performance criteria contained in this standard were tested for applicability under the sponsorship of the US Department of Energy and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The standard was approved by Committee N42 letter ballot of February 6, 1989.

At the time it approved this standard, the Accredited Standards Committee on Radiation Instrumentation, N42, had the following members:

Louis Costrell, Chair

Sue Vogel, Administrative Secretary

American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists Jesse Lieberman

Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories Jack M. Selby

Health Physics Society J. B. Horner Kuper

Jack M. Selby (Alt)

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Louis Costrell

David C. Cook (Alt)

Julian Forster (Alt)

Anthony J. Spurgin (Alt)

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lee J. Wagner

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Paul L. Phelps

Nuclear Suppliers Association Kenneth F. Sinclair

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Hugh R. Brashear

UCLA Center for the Health Sciences James E. McLaughlin

US Department of the Army Edward Groeber

US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology Louis Costrell

US Department of Energy Gerald Goldstein

US Federal Emergency Management Agency Carl R. Siebentritt

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Edward C. Wenzinger, Sr.

Members-at-Large Joseph G. Bellian

David C. Cook

Ernesto A. Corte

John M. Gallagher

Dick A. Mack

Edward J. Vallario

Sanford Wagner

At the time this standard was approved, Subcommittee N42.1 had the following members:

Jack M. Selby, Chair

J. G. Bellian

Edmond Goodale

J. D. Henderson

R. L. Kathren

William Klein

H. W. Patterson

C. R. Siebentritt

E. J. Vallario

The working group for this standard had the following members:

J. M. Selby, Chair

J. L. Kenoyer, Vice Chair

B. V. Anderson*

J. G. Bellian

M. V. Federline†

J. A. Flanigan

D. M. Fleming

J. A. Jones*

J. N. Little

R. B. Neel

G. J. Oliver

R. D. Terry

R. P. Ulman

C. K. Brown‡

A. L. Cucchiara‡

L. M. Earls‡

J. G. Flaherty‡

R. L. Kathren‡

K. L. Swinth‡

* Deceased

† Replaced by another NRC representative

‡ Consultant

The following persons were on the balloting committee that approved this document for submission to the Accredited Standards Committee N42:

J. G. Bellian

H. R. Brashear

D. C. Cook

L. Costrell

J. Forster

J. M. Gallagher

G. Goldstein

E. Groeber

J. B. Horner Kuper

J. Lieberman

D. A. Mack

J. E. McLaughlin

J. M. Selby

C. R. Siebentritt

K. F. Sinclair

A. J. Spurgin

E. J. Vallario

L. J. Wagner

E. C. Wenzinger, Sr.

This standard specifies performance criteria and testing procedures for instruments and instrument systems designed to continuously sample and quantify concentrations of radioactivity in ambient air in the workplace. This standard does not specify which instruments or systems are required, nor does it address the specific locations or applications of such instruments.