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- Page 1 StemRad® 360 Gamma User Manual StemRad® Personal Protection Revised January 2017 StemRad® 360 Gamma User Manual ***This information packet may not be removed except by the end user*** Radiation Protection for the Day Prevention Fails...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Donning the Garment Doffing the Garment Decontamination and Cleaning Garment Retirement Considerations Disposal Usage Guidance Warnings Your Responsibility as a User Disclaimers StemRad 360 Gamma Sizing Chart Inner Label Icon Legend StemRad 360 Gamma Performance Garment Inspection & Test Log Optional Accessories... -
Page 3: Product Features
StemRad® 360 Gamma User Manual Back Front... -
Page 4: Safety Considerations
While wearing any StemRad garment, you are properly trained in its usage. You including the 360 Gamma, do not knowingly must be in good physical condition to wear enter an environment in which the these garments. Consult a physician before... - Page 5 At a minimum, wear the following Limits for Emergency Workers additional PPE with a StemRad garment • such as the 360 Gamma (Note: other PPE Direct-reading dosimeters should be equipment should be worn over the 360 worn so that a worker can easily see Gamma): the read-out and/or hear warning alarms.
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Page 6: Garment Maintenance Schedule
Internal Inspection Dosimeter X*** Replacement *Inspection by StemRad authorized employee or authorized service provider- needed to maintain any type of warranty. **Only in radioactive fields ***High temperatures may necessitate more frequent replacement 2. After a garment is worn Garment Inspection 3. -
Page 7: Internal Inspection
Do not attempt to 1. Lay the 360 Gamma on a clean, smooth return a product without authorization surface. from your safety equipment distributor or 2. -
Page 8: Storage Conditions
Avoid compression under heavy weights and sharp edges or projections. Never step - climb up and down stairs and ladder. on the 360 Gamma. Never place or store - wear and remove the SCBA if applicable. heavy objects on top of the units. - Page 9 4. Sit on a chair with a straight back (your hip joint should make a 90 degree angle). In this position the bottom edge of the 360 Gamma should rest on top of your thighs. If it does not, loosen shoulder straps until it does (as illustrated in Step 4, below).
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Page 10: Doffing The Garment
2. Thoroughly clean the garment using 5. Lift second shoulder strap and guide the household dishwashing liquid and soft 360 Gamma to its case by the rear handle. brushes, followed by a thorough rinsing in Decontamination and Cleaning water. -
Page 11: Garment Retirement Considerations
Follow these warnings and limitations at all times: -Garment been irreversibly contaminated - The 360 Gamma provides only partial body protection from externally penetrating -Garment has been decontaminated with ionizing radiation. Most of your body is oxidative, corrosive reactive unprotected. -
Page 12: Your Responsibility As A User
StemRad® 360 Gamma User Manual -The 360 Gamma offers little or no thermal proper personal protective insulation to protect the wearer's skin from equipment needed. prolonged exposure to hot or cold. The It is your responsibility as a user to select... -
Page 13: Disclaimers
IN NO EVENT SHALL STEMRAD BE LIABLE Please contact StemRad LTD. at the address FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, below with regard to any questions PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, concerning the use of the 360 Gamma. WHETHER ARISING FROM CONTRACT,... -
Page 14: Stemrad 360 Gamma Sizing Chart
StemRad® 360 Gamma User Manual StemRad 360 Gamma Sizing Chart Waist 72-87 cm 88-104 cm 105-120 cm waist 28''-34'' 35''-41'' 42''-47'' height 182-200 cm S Tall M Tall L Tall 6’0’’-6'7'' 150-181 cm S Reg. M Reg. L Reg. 4’11’’-5'11''... -
Page 15: Stemrad 360 Gamma Performance
Relative pelvic marrow doses upon exposure to a cloud source of Cs-137 in the absence and presence of the StemRad 360 Gamma. The dose recorded in each numbered TLD dosimeter is expressed as a fraction of the ambient dose (in-air). In sketch below front and rear views of a human skeleton with exact... - Page 16 User Manual Lead Equivalence and Linear Radiation Attenuation: The figure below shows the varying thickness of protective material in the 360 Gamma in terms of lead equivalence, together with the reduction of radiation intensity provided by each thickness level in terms of radiation from a linear Cs-137 source.
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Page 17: Garment Inspection & Test Log
StemRad® 360 Gamma User Manual StemRad 360 Gamma Garment Inspection & Test Log SERIAL #............................DATE INSPECTOR REMARKS TEST RESULTS... -
Page 18: Optional Accessories
User Manual Optional Accessories Real-time Radiation Monitor (NukAlert™) The StemRad 360 Gamma optionally comes with a Nukalert real-time radiation monitor and specialized pouch. The Nukalert is a calibrated radiation meter that alarms when exposed to dangerous levels of nuclear radiation. It does not respond to relatively safe, low level radiation. - Page 19 StemRad® 360 Gamma User Manual Page Intentionally Left Blank for User Notes...
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