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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Iridium-192 source stuck outside container due to equipment misuse  |
18 September 2007 |
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Poor radiation protection in veterinary surgery |
18 December 2006 |
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Ordinary glass used instead of lead glass in a CT scanner installation |
18 December 2006 |
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Radioactive source found in old materials |
7 April 2005 |
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Trigger of an alarm in a waste installation |
7 April 2005 |
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Contamination from damaged drains in nuclear medicine department |
7 April 2005 |
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Hospital waste triggers radiation alarm at incinerator plant |
7 April 2005 |
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Disappearance of an Iridium 192 wire from a hospital |
7 April 2005 |
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Hospital incident involving the dispersion of iodine-131 liquid waste from a broken effluent pipe |
7 April 2005 |
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Internal contamination of nursing staff with iodine-131 due to an epileptic patient |
7 April 2005 |