Competency information

Details

Undertake risk assessment for a nuclear medicine facility

Considerations

  • Theory of risk assessment using current statutory and professional guidance
  • Hazards from unsealed sources, annual limits of intake, biokinetic models, properties of liquid sources
  • Radiation interactions with tissues and ingestion pathways
  • External exposure hazards, attenuation, scatter and ambient radiation fields

Relevant learning outcomes

# Outcome
# 1 Outcome Assess risks associated with planned new facilities or services involving radiation