Quality Management System for Radiation Protection Monitoring Service

IAEA-developed training material on "Quality Management System for Radiation Protection Monitoring Services" based on requirements of the International Basic Safety Standards, Radiation Protection and Safety of Radiation Sources?(GSR Part 3), the respective generic guidance in the General Safety Guide on Occupational Radiation Protection (GSG-7), and the international standard ISO/IEC17025 "General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories". The training material is available for download in English.

The training material, including twenty-four modules, target on all actors in radiation protection monitoring service, in particular in those organizations, which aim to get accredited through their national or international accreditation authorities. This includes specifically the following audiences:

• Technical Managers of Radiation Protection Monitoring Services;

• Radiation Monitoring Technicians;

• Radiation Protection Officers;

• Regulators.

Approved training packages may be copied, distributed, displayed, incorporated in customized presentations and used for non-commercial use as long as the source of the material is referenced to the IAEA approved training package.

Introduction

To help services:

• to demonstrate competence
• to produce technically valid data and results
• to facilitate cooperation between regional laboratories and
• to assist in the exchange of information and experience in the harmonization of procedures

1) What is Quality

• How to ascertain quality
• Importance of quality
• What do customers need?
• Sources of errors
• Quality management

2) Basic concepts of accreditation

In this lecture we will:

• discuss the necessary actions to get accreditation
• speak about the effort necessary
• try to estimate costs

3) Standards in quality management

• Quality management system
• Accreditation
• Auditing and
• Measurement devices

15b) Validation of external personal monitoring

• Use of?TLDs/OSL systems

15c) Validation of workplace monitoring

• Dose rate measurements with handheld instruments

?15d) Validation of workplace monitoring

• Surface contamination measuremennts with portable devices

?15e) Validation of external personal monitoring

• Use of active (electronic) personal dosimeters