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Title: Health Physics The Practice of Radiation Safety


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Health Physics - The Practice of Radiation Safety
  • Presented by

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HEALTH PHYSICISTSPECIALIST IN RADIATION SAFETY
  • Protect People and the Environment
  • From unnecessary exposure
  • From contamination
  • Minimize Exposures to Occupational Workers and
    the Public ALARA-
  • Comply with federal and state regulations
  • Certifications Available
  • ABHP, NRRPT,

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HEALTH PHYSICISTSPECIALIST IN RADIATION SAFETY
  • Understand Evaluate and Control Risks
  • Evaluate relative risk to benefit
  • Provide Training
  • Safe use, methods, monitoring
  • Dedicated to Radiation Safety
  • Maintain Education
  • Develop and apply safety programs

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THE ALARA PRINCIPLEAS LOW AS REASONABLY
ACHIEVABLE
  • ALARA Philosophy
  • Use every reasonable effort to minimize dose
  • Basis of Health Physics Guidelines
  • Has been incorporated into regulation
  • Use of ALARA Provisions
  • Facilitates proactive measures for radiation
    safety and protection

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HEALTH PHYSICISTSPECIALIST IN RADIATION SAFETY
  • Career Opportunities
  • Medical facilities
  • Industry
  • Education
  • Utilities
  • Government
  • Education and Research
  • Two year technical associate degrees
  • Bachelor degrees
  • Master and doctoral degrees

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MEDICAL HEALTH PHYSICISTS
  • Check Radiation Equipment
  • Prevent unnecessary dose to patients
  • Minimize dose to workers
  • Control Radioactive Materials
  • Train users to minimize dose to patients and
    workers
  • Proper waste disposal
  • Work with Oncologists
  • Safely administer large doses to cancer patients

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INDUSTRIAL HEALTH PHYSICISTS
  • Train Workers
  • Proper handling
  • Safety rules
  • Prevent unnecessary dose
  • Proper Disposal of Radioactive Waste

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HEALTH PHYSICISTS IN EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
  • Training of Nuclear Technicians
  • Provide Education for Professional Health
    Physicists
  • Research
  • Effects of radiation
  • Develop better equipment to measure radiation

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UTILITY HEALTH PHYSICISTS
  • Responsible for Radiation Safety of Nuclear Power
    Plants
  • Workers
  • Environment
  • Public
  • Develop Safety Procedures for Workers

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UTILITY HEALTH PHYSICISTS
  • Monitor Radiation and Radioactivity
  • Worker doses
  • Plant emissions
  • Radioactivity in air and water around plant
  • Calculations of expected public doses
  • Safe Handling of Radioactive Waste
  • Low level waste
  • High level waste (used fuel rods)

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GOVERNMENT REGULATORY HEALTH PHYSICISTS
  • State and Federal
  • State Bureaus of Radiation Protection
  • Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  • Set and Enforce Regulations
  • Issue licenses to radiation facilities
  • Regular inspections of radiation facilities
  • Impose fine or remove license if needed
  • Assist Radiation Programs
  • Offer suggestions on ways to comply with
    regulations

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THE HEALTH PHYSICSBASICS
  • Protect Workers
  • Limit dose
  • Monitoring
  • Training programs
  • Protect the Public
  • Limit dose/releases
  • Education

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HEALTH PHYSICSTHE PRACTICE OF RADIATION SAFETY
  • Protect the Future
  • Allow for continued safe use of radioactive
    materials and radiation producing machines.
  • Research
  • Therapy
  • Industrial applications
  • Protect the Environment
  • Enforce regulations and programs to prevent
    contamination and exposure
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