Radiation safety at an atomic energy factory.

Many people still think of atomic energy as a matter of scientists with scientific assistants and laboratories with laboratory-type equipment. The factories of the Industrial Group of the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority are controlled and directed by engineers and industrial chemists as well as by physicists, most of whom must be as skilled in management as they are in the technical complexities of their work. The employees are process workers of various grades and skilled tradesmen such as fitters, electricians, and instrument mechanics. When we are thinking of radiation protection we are thinking mainly of workpeople in factories and not of scientists in laboratories.