Advanced Radiation Safety Officer
| Date | Several training dates available |
| Cost |
$4,060 plus GST
|
| Venue | ANSTO New Illawarra Road Lucas Heights NSW 2234 |
| Register: 10 - 14 March 2025 | |
| Register: 5 - 9 May 2025 | |
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Course Objective
Develop sufficient radiation protection knowledge and skills to be able to:
- recognise the need for an operational and management framework for the safety and security of radioactive substances and radiation apparatus
- formulate and implement a radiation protection program
- comply with regulations, standards and requirements
Audience
Personnel that have operational or management responsibilities for radioactive substances and/or radiation apparatus as part of their work:
- as a Radiation Safety Officer responsible for a range of radioactive substances, radiation apparatus and/or radiation services across a variety of facilities or industries
- in a role that deals with radiation safety on a daily basis
- in a role that requires a comprehensive understanding of the science of ionising radiation, radiation safety and security, emergency response and diverse applications of radiation
Course Content
- Scientific Background
- Review: Preliminary Reading
- Workshop: Scientific Background
- Biological Effects of Radiation
- Radiation Protection Principles
- External Radiation Hazards
- Internal Radiation Hazards
- Workshop: Derived Air Concentration
- Ionising Radiation in the Environment
- NORM in Industry
- Lecture & Workshop: The Chart of Nuclides
- Workshop: Radiation Protection Calculations
- Detection and Measurement
- Practical: Dose Rate Survey
- Personal Dosimetry
- Industrial Gauges
- Working with Sealed Sources
- Lecture & Workshop: Safe Transport of Radioactive Materials
- Practical: Shielding Effectiveness
- Practical: Surface Contamination Survey
- Working with Unsealed Sources
- Working with X-Ray Equipment
- Legislation and Codes of Practice
- Workshop: Codes of Practice and Safety Guides
- Radioactive Waste Management
- Emergency Preparedness and Response
- Workshop: Incident Scenarios
- Role of a Radiation Safety Officer
- Workshop: Developing a Radiation Management Plan
- Source Security
- Workshop: Workplace Monitoring Scenarios
- Workshop: Safety Assessment
Tours
- GATRI (Gamma Technology Research Irradiator)
- Instrument Calibration Facility
- OPAL (Open Pool Australian Lightwater) reactor
- Waste Management
Radiation Safety training
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