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.
| Title | Publication date |
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Leakage of radioactive effluents in workplaces as a result of a burst pipe  |
5 December 2016 |
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Contamination during repackaging of an iodine capsule |
5 December 2016 |
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Health care aid exposure during scanner calibration |
20 May 2016 |
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Leakage of radiolabeled dosage kits during delivery |
25 August 2015 |
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Loss of wastes potentially containing P-32 |
15 June 2015 |
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Overexposure of welders due to temporary loss of ytterbium-169 (Yb-169) source |
20 November 2014 |
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Industrial radiography: hand injury from exposure to X-ray beam |
20 November 2014 |
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Radiological incident in surgical unit |
9 November 2014 |
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Unjustified exposures during radiological check-up of racehorses |
9 November 2014 |
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Incident during gamma radiography – exposure of a worker |
7 November 2014 |