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 |
|---|---|
| Unsafe transport of waste radiotherapy source | 23 April 2010 |
Deterministic injuries to radiographer’s hand  |
23 April 2010 |
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Lost radiography source leading to exposure of many personnel |
23 April 2010 |
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Contamination of an engineering facility due to damaged Tm-170 radiography source |
20 April 2010 |
| Industrial radiography guide tube damaged during use led to high exposure | 20 April 2010 |
| Gamma NDT overexposure from non-retracted source | 20 April 2010 |
| Inadvertent exposure to persons in vehicle x-ray inspection facility | 20 April 2010 |
| Electrical fitter exposed during maintenance of cigarette manufacturing machines | 20 April 2010 |
| Contractor exposed to radiation during level gauge refurbishment | 20 April 2010 |
| Faulty shutter on a scanning beta thickness gauge | 20 April 2010 |