Mandatory annual training for personnel who access radiation posted areas (non-radiation workers). Radioactive material and x-ray machines are safely used in a wide variety of research programs at the ...

Radiation protection education and training are key to keep medical practitioners up to speed with the safe uses of the latest technologies, and this was a driver of a recent IAEA meeting. To identify ...

Rubber boot covers. Tyvek suits. Respirators. These are just a few items of personal protective equipment (PPE) that students donned during the Radiation Safety and Control practicum exercise inside ...

Radiation protection officers play a central role in ensuring that work in medical or industrial facilities that use radiation sources is carried out safely. They also contribute to training other ...

Like the Maytag repairman sitting next to a silent telephone in those old TV commercials, staff members from the university’s Radiation Safety Office know they’re doing a good job when nothing’s ...

The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change's (MECC) Radiation Protection Department held its second consultative meeting with accredited training centers in the radiological field in the State of ...

The RS105 Radiation Safety Waste Handling and Packing course is for those who handle, pack, and manifest radioactive waste materials. EH&S Support Facility Staff will no longer pick up radioactive ...

Radiation can be defined as energy traveling through space. There are two types of radiation, ionizing and non-ionizing, which are differentiated by how they interact with matter. Non-ionizing ...

The Radiation Safety Office provides the means necessary for personnel to protect themselves, their coworkers, the general public, and the environment from detrimental effects of radioactive materials ...

The University strives to ensure that all ionizing and non-ionizing radiation hazards used in teaching and research are properly obtained, used, stored, transferred, and disposed of. The Radiation ...

The Radiation Safety Section is responsible for complying with regulations set forth by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as well as the Indiana State Department of Health for the safe use of ...

For many years NRC (AEC)-licensed activities using by-product materials have been taking place at Michigan Technological University. Early in 1991, the University changed from an NRC broad scope ...