Responsibility to our employees
Cutting core at the Aricheng exploration base camp
The health and well-being of our employees is of fundamental importance to our Board and management. We have established sound policies and precautionary measures to create a safe and healthy workplace that helps protect our personnel against potential adverse effects of radiation related to uranium.
While uranium exploration activities generally pose minimal exposure at levels similar to natural background radiation (over 80% of radiation exposure on earth is from natural sources such as soil, rocks, water, plants, animals and humans), U3O8 Corp. has implemented protection measures including:
Individual monitoring devices – All workers wear thermo luminescent radiation dosimeters (TLDs) to measure individual radiation levels and record cumulative external doses, which are monitored by Health Canada’s Canadian National Dosimetry Services. TLD measurements are recorded and reported to Health Canada every three months, providing an official, external record of our employees’ exposure to radiation.
Contamination controls include: • clean, well-ventilated work and living quarters
• protective gear (eg. gloves, coveralls, full respiratory masks)
• minimize handling of uranium-bearing rock
• change areas for removing work clothes into clean clothes
• strict personal hygiene standards including no work shoes in mess hall, regular hand washing
• clean work clothes and equipment
• drill rigs washed to prevent accumulated cuttings
• wet saw (similar to tile-cutting saw) for splitting drill core to control dust
• core cuttings drained into a sump and routed to settling tank
• core samples stored and examined in clean, well-ventilated and designated facilities