Which type of contamination can get on your clothes and become airborne by sweeping or using fans, and can be made loose by work activities?

• A. Fixed Contamination
• B. Loose Contamination
• C. Discrete Radioactive Particle
• D. Personal Contamination Monitor

Answer: (B)

Loose contamination is the type that isn’t firmly attached to a surface, so it can land on your clothes and be stirred into the air by normal work activities like sweeping or using fans. It can also be dislodged by routine movement, making it easy to become airborne and potentially spread to other areas. Fixed contamination, by contrast, is tightly bound to a surface and won’t become airborne under typical work actions. A discrete radioactive particle describes a single particle’s form, not how contamination transfers from clothing into the air, and a personal contamination monitor is a device used to detect contamination on a person, not a contamination type.