Recommendations for IAEA Documentation for Industrial Radiography

Documents Safety Guide No. SSG-11, Radiation Safety in Industrial Radiography 2011 Safety Reports Series No. 7 Lessons Learned from Accidents in Industrial Radiography 1998 Practical Radiation Safety Manual on Gamma Radiography 1996  

Recommendations Lessons Learned should be updated with new examples and more pictures Practical manual should be updated with more pictures Provide leaflets with details operational procedures for the operators

Recommendations – SSG-11 Review existing specific operational procedures from MSs – determine best practises from common review Overall – add security considerations Address site safety and client and operator interface. Advice on client awareness

Recommendations Describe in detail how to perform adequate radiation surveys throughout radiography operations Provide guidance on minimum specific characteristics needed for survey meters, EPDs, alarm ratemeters. Consider need for both Gamma and X ray meters.

Recommendations Considerations for “special conditions and environments” for a radiography practise, confined space offshore underwater Advise any specialized equipment or procedures needed for these conditions

Recommendations Detailed requirements for temporary storage, client facilities, hotels Provide universally acceptable investigation levels for dose for the different types of radiography performed Pipeline Bunkers

Recommendations Emphasize the biological risks and effects from actual source handling Psychological testing of radiographers ? More detail on performing source exchanges Provide more instruction to inspectors and regulators

Recommendations More detail on actual steps in field radiography Group wanted good benchmark and good practises procedures available