Imaging for medical purposes typically involves a team comprising radiologists, radiographers, sonographers, medical physicists, biomedical engineers, and other support staff working together to enhance the health of every patient they encounter. For best results and the assurance of quality, the imaging teams must adopt a multidisciplinary and integrative approach to work to assure patient...
The Radiation Protection Institute (RPI) of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC), among other objectives provides radiation protection and safety training and consultancy on radiation exposure control; safety and security of radiation sources and effective radioactive waste management services. The Institute further conducts on-site radiation safety assessment for sectors of the economy...
The purpose of this paper is to use the notion of “culture” given by Socrate, in the Green Jobs sector context, reflecting on building up a safety culture making system, useful to stakeholders involved in green activities that include radiation production as a side effect of their processes. Socratic thinking considered culture as the result of knowledge added to reason, and the only...
Background
Dosimeter management in the Radiotherapy Department, Pereira-Rossell Hospital (HPR) Montevideo-Uruguay, has been difficult due to: 1) The Dosimetry Service (Ministry of Industry) has increased the cost of the personal dosimeter replacement. It was warned that the cost could be transferred to radiation workers (RWs). 2) HPR has a delay in the payment to the Dosimetry Service; thus,...
Establishing a strong safety and security culture is one of the fundamental management principles for an organization dealing with radioactive material. According to the IAEA, safety culture is the assembly of characteristics, attitudes and behaviours in individuals, organizations, and institutions which establishes that, as an overriding priority, protection and safety issues receive the...
- The Meaning of Safety Culture
We first saw term of safety culture in the OECD Nuclear agency Report of 1987 [1].Later, more and more people accepted it and thought of it as a culture where safety is a top priority.
Safety culture has different interpretations on different occasions. For example，The IAEA（1991）defined safety culture as, ‘‘that assembly of characteristics and attitudes in...
