Nuclear safety: Opposition to relaxing standards

Evaluation of Radiation Protection in Nuclear Medicine Department in Namazi Hospital According to Global Accepted Standards

Background & Objective: In the recent years, nuclear medicine has enjoyed remarkable growth thanks to such novel technologies as SPECT-CT and PET, which are utilized for the recognition of new detectable molecules and radiopharmaceutical medicines. Therefore, the current regulations on radiation protection require revision. Namazi Hospital of Shiraz is one of the first nuclear medicine center...

How to Improve Safety Critical Systems Standards

Abstract: An effective standard for safety critical software systems is one that should help both developers and assessors of such systems. For developers it should be clear what is required in order to conform to the standard, while for assessors it should be possible to determine objectively compliance to the standard. The existing set of standards do not pass this basic quality test. We prov...

Adapting adult scald safety standards to children.

Scald burns by domestic tap water constitute a painful, potentially debilitating, and sometimes-fatal form of thermal injury. In this setting, the very young and older members of the population are particularly susceptible, owing in part to having thinner skin, which renders them more susceptible to thermal insult. Various codes have set forth a safety standard for maximum delivery temperature ...

Ensuring Reliable Safety Standards

Do Ties Really Bind? the Effect of Knowledge and Commercialization Networks on Opposition to Standards

We examine how the multiplicity of interorganizational relationships affects strategic behavior by studying the influence of two such relationships—knowledge linkages and commercialization ties—on the voting behavior of firms in a technological standardssetting committee. We find that, while centrally positioned firms in the knowledge network exhibit lower opposition to the standard, centrally ...