Safe Handling of Radioactive Materials

Safe handling of tissue containing radioactive substances.

Patients recently treated with radioactive isotopes may present problems or even hazards during physical examination, operation or autopsy, especially following the use of iodine isotopes and 198Au. 32P is rarely a significant hazard. Contamination of victims of radiation accidents may be a problem initially, but they are usually promptly decontaminated. Guidance of the hospital's radiation saf...

Implicit Cues Modify Manual Materials Handling Behaviour but Not Safe Handling Affordance

INTRODUCTION Observation-based occupational safety programs have long recognized the critical interaction of environment and behaviour in the workplace [1]. While the veracity of these programs is questioned [2], their foundation in behavioural psychology connects to various theory-based paradigms for changing manual materials handling (and musculoskeletal loading, or `consequences`) by manipul...

The Transport of Radioactive Materials

All of these materials are transported on land, sea or in the air in compliance with regulations which are now universally based on the IAEA Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Materials Ref. [1]. These regulations are designed to ensure adequate protection of transport workers, the public and the environment against the hazards of external radiation, the spread of radioactive con...

Safe handling of radio-isotopes.

Naturally-Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM)

Over the years there have been many occasions when it was asserted that coal-fired power stations emitted more radioactivity (from NORM) than was released anywhere in the nuclear fuel cycle. While having some basis in fact the claim is generally not correct now. Today the contention regarding NORM tends to be in relation to steel and other materials released from demolished industrial facilitie...