Reports
For OTHEA, incidents reports are selected on the basis of the value of sharing the lessons learned. Therefore, a broad variety of incidents may be included: not just incidents and accidents, but also any situation, event, behaviour or anomaly with the potential to cause an unplanned radiation exposure, or a significant decrease in the existing standard of radiation protection. This could include “near misses”, contamination spills (whether people wer exposed or not) as well as more serious radiological incidents.
OTHEA does not include nuclear, or nuclear-related, incidents.
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Disappearance of dosimeters from a storage panel  |
10 September 2018 |
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Radiological protection defect in a new radiology station |
22 January 2018 |
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Recovery of radioactive lightning conductors on a demolition site |
12 July 2017 |
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Activation of a portal monitor by a radioactive object at the entrance of a waste disposal site |
12 July 2017 |
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Activation of a portal detector by smoke detectors at the entrance of a waste disposal site |
12 July 2017 |
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Exposure of a worker during NDT of tubes in a gas facility |
12 July 2017 |
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Exposure to X-rays during work in a bunker |
10 July 2017 |
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Exposure during industrial radiography that causes an annual regulatory limit to be exceeded |
5 December 2016 |
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Incident in a brachytherapy operating room with I-125 |
5 December 2016 |
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Exposure of three people following the blocking of a fluoroscopy pedal with an ultrasound scanner |
5 December 2016 |