Competency information
Details
Undertake risk assessment for a range of radiation facilities and a range of radiation hazards, to include external and internal, low energy and high energy, X-ray, gamma, beta and positron
Considerations
- Methods of risk assessment
- Sources, extent and significance of hazards to:
- patients and their carers
- staff
- public
- the organisation
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 1 | Outcome Understand the hierarchy of control measures available to ensure safe practice in a diagnostic imaging room and in the safe handling of sealed and unsealed radioactive sources |
| # 4 | Outcome Compare and contrast the radiation safety requirements for diagnostic X-ray imaging, nuclear medicine imaging and radionuclide therapy |