Radiation Safety Training
Initial Radiation Safety Training
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Training Overview
Faculty, staff, and students working with Radioactive Materials (RAM) or Radiation Generating Equipment (RGE) at Miami University must complete initial radiation safety training. The initial radiation safety training has the following components:
- A set of web-based Radiation Basics modules with an accompanying test. Participants must successfully pass the Radiations Basics Test before attending the Radioactive Materials Safety Class. The Radiation Basics modules and test can be viewed any time at the Modules web page.
- Radioactive Materials Safety Class: The two-hour Radioactive Materials Safety Class is offered once a month (see the Training Calendar for specific dates and times)
Radiation Basics Modules
There are six computer-based training modules:
- Radiation Properties
- Background Radiation & Other Sources of Exposure
- Biological Effects
- Government Regulations and the Radiation Safety Program
- External and Internal Dose Limits
- Radiation Monitoring
These modules provide information on the following topics:
- the basic characteristics of radiation, including the properties of various radioactive emissions
- half-life
- radiation units
- natural background and other sources of radiation exposure
- the biological effects of radiation exposure
- the risks of radiation exposure
- rules and regulations
- the administration of the radiation safety program at Miami University
- annual radiation dose limits
- the ALARA Philosophy
- when radiation dosimetry is required and when it is not
- the Declared Pregnant Worker Program
If you have never attended radiation
safety training at any institution or would like to review all of the
training
modules:
If you have taken radiation safety
training at another institution but need to read about the rules,
regulations and the administration of Miami University's radiation
safety program
and the dosimetry program at Miami:
If you would like to go to a specific module:
Radiation Basics Test
You may take this test if you have completed review of the Radiation Basics Training Modules. If you have attended radiation safety training at any other institution, you must read through the Regulations Module, the Dose Limits Module and the Radiation Monitoring Module before you take the test.
Completion of this test does not certify you to use radioactive materials. In addition to successfully completing the test, you must also attend the Radioactive Materials Safety Class, which is the classroom portion of the Initial Radiation Safety Training.
In
order to be admitted to the class, you must have completed
the test no later
than 10 a.m. of the day of the class (test results are
submitted
to the Radiation Safety Office
via e-mail, using a form at the end of the test).
Radioactive Materials Safety Class
This class does not include the topics covered in the Radiation Basics modules. Completion of the web-based training and successful completion of the Radiation Basics test is a prerequisite for attendance at the class and will not be waived.
Scheduling
The class is a two hour class offered once a month.
In order
to be admitted to the class, you must have completed the test no
later than 10 a.m. of the day of the class (test results are submitted
to the Radiation Safety Office
via e-mail, using a form at the end of the test).
Miami University's Radiation Safety Office would like to thank Sue Dupre and Princeton University for the training materials used in this website.