Competency information
Details
Undertake room design from first principles for a radiotherapy facility (and/or brachytherapy facility) and specify the radiation design features
Considerations
- Operational design requirements Practices and workloads
- Properties of radiation source
- Properties of construction and shielding materials
- Layout and influence on radiation levels
- Consideration for neutron/activation products produced as a by- product
- Design constraints
- Contamination control by design
- Protection of staff, members of the public and the environment
- Methods for modelling radiation levels
- Engineering controls, safety and warning systems
- Application of High Activity Sealed Source regulations and anti- terrorism implications
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 2 | Outcome Specify design features for new facilities or services involving the use of radiation |
| # 3 | Outcome Specify radiation protection and control features required for new facilities involving the use of radiation |