{"id":559,"date":"2018-05-15T11:23:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T11:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.161.141.51:8081\/medicalphysics\/?page_id=559"},"modified":"2021-06-30T16:08:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T16:08:55","slug":"personnel-radiation-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/personnel-radiation-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Personnel Radiation Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of our RPA service staff radiation doses are monitored.\u00a0 Many of our customers deal directly with a personnel radiation dose monitoring service provider (e.g. Mirion, NRPB, Landauer) who will then forward to us the dose reports.\u00a0 Regular reports of doses received by staff are monitored by experienced members of the RRPS team and local Radiation Protection Supervisors are immediately informed if there is any cause for concern. Otherwise we keep a copy for our records and then forward the report to the customer.\u00a0 We keep records in order to be able to complete annual staff dose reports for our customers and to monitor trends in staff doses to ensure that they remain within acceptable limits.\u00a0 We liase with our monitoring service provider (Landauer) on behalf of some radiation workers (mostly those who work within the RSCH Trust) and distribute dosemeters, collect and return them to the service provider to be read and reported.<\/p>\n

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Whole body monitoring:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whole body TLD badges are used.\u00a0 These are issued Monthly, 2-monthly or quarterly and worn on the trunk at chest or waist height.\u00a0 Some staff (eg interventional radiologists) are required to wear two badges.\u00a0 One badge to monitor their body dose, which is worn under their lead apron.\u00a0 The second \u2018collar\u2019 badge is used to monitor radiation dose to parts of the body not protected by the lead apron such as the eyes or thyroid \u2013 for convenience this is worn on the shoulder or collar outside the lead apron.<\/p>\n

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Extremity monitoring:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Staff who work handing radioisotopes or with their hands near to an X-ray beam will have their finger dose monitored either continually or periodically using TLD finger monitors.\u00a0 These monitors will either be in the form of fingerstalls or rings. Fingerstalls are used by staff handling radioisotopes, as they enable doses to be measured at the tips of the fingers.\u00a0 Radiologists may wear either rings or stalls, whichever they find most convenient and comfortable.<\/p>\n

We issue finger monitors together with a form (extremity isotope form or extremity radiology form), on which the monitor number, the name of the wearer and the period of wear are recorded.\u00a0 Users are asked to complete the form with further details of activities undertaken in order to assist us in relating finger dose to workload.\u00a0 At the end of the monitoring period the finger monitors are returned to us together with the form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of our RPA service staff radiation doses are monitored.\u00a0 Many of our customers deal directly with a personnel radiation dose monitoring service provider (e.g. Mirion, NRPB, Landauer) who will then forward to us the dose reports.\u00a0 Regular reports of doses received by staff are monitored by experienced members of the RRPS team and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/559\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}