Competency information
Details
Write local rules for nuclear medicine facilities and services, including contingency planning
Considerations
- Application of relevant legislative requirements, eg IRR99 with reference to good practice guides (eg MDGN)
- Requirements of other legislation, IRMER, MARS, EPR2010, RSA93 (Scotland)
- Local hospital policies Reporting policy to relevant external agency, eg Environment Agency (EA), Care Quality Commission (CQC), Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
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 |
| # 3 | Outcome Specify the theoretical and practical requirement involved in room design for diagnostic imaging facilities |