(Virtual event) International Conference on Radiation Safety: Improving Radiation Protection in Practice - Programme - Week 2

Chair: Ms Veronica Smith, Ireland

Co-Chair: Mr Piotr Kopka, Poland

Rapporteur: Ms Katerina Kouts, IAEA

Keynote Presentation:

Ms Elena Buglova, IAEA: IAEA Safety Standards in the area of emergency preparedness and response: reference levels, generic criteria and operational criteria

Presentations:

Mr Ramon De la Vega, IAEA: Arrangements for termination of a nuclear or radiological emergency

Ms Jacqueline Garnier-Laplace, NEA/OECD: Enhancing preparedness is key for post-accident recovery; first conclusions from dedicated OECD/NEA expert groups

Mr Abdalla Al-Haj, Saudi Arabia: Strengthening the radiation emergency preparedness program in Saudi Arabia: strategic approach

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Chair: Mr Jim Malone, Ireland

Co-Chair: Ms Turkki Shatona, Namibia

Rapporteur:  Ms Allison Wilding, IAEA

Keynote Presentation:

Mr Roger Coates, IRPA: Prudence and the hidden burden of conservatism

Presentations:

Mr Roger Seitz and Mr Justin Marble, United States: Deliberate bias in safety assessments - helping or hurting stakeholder confidence?

Mr Bernd Lorenz, Germany: Optimization after minimization: squaring the circle in radiation protection

Mr Marcel Lips, Switzerland: Reflections on low-dose radiation, the misconceptions, reality and moving forward

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Chair: Mr Khammar Mrabit, Morocco

Co-Chair:  Ms Christina Raith, Austria

Rapporteur: Mr Rodolfo Cruz Suarez, IAEA

Keynote Presentation:

Mr Bernard Le Guen, IRPA: Joint international initiatives to strengthen radiation protection culture in different professional environments

Presentations:

Mr Jerickson Abbie Flores, Philippines: Safety in radiation oncology (SAFRON) database on reporting of radiotherapy incidents and near misses: a single institution experience on radiotherapy events reporting and learning system

Ms Hiromi Koike, Japan: Consciousness analysis on safety culture improvement in radiation facilities in Japan

Mr Walter Truppa, Argentina:  The application of the risk matrix methodology, to avoid radiological accidents in industrial radiography

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Document "IRPA Guiding Principles on ‘Reasonableness’ in the Optimisation of Radiation Protection" is available here.

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Chair: Ms Maria Perez, WHO

Co-Chair:  Mr Charles Fitzpatrick, United States of America

Rapporteur:  Mr Kevin Kelleher, IAEA

Presentations:

Ms Selma Fijuljanin, Slovenia: Slovenia: radon in homes and workplaces National Radon Programme implementation

Mr Hiroshi Yasuda, Japan: Practical approach for radiological protection in aviation - how can we assess the cosmic radiation exposures of individual flyers?

Ms Aoife Kinahan, Ireland: Improvements in the estimation of ingested dose from natural radioactivity in the Irish diet

Ms Sybille Estier, Switzerland: Managing Radium Legacies from the watch industry: the Swiss experience

Panellist:
Mr Carl Blackburn, FAO

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About this roundtable

Chair: Mr Alex Kalaizovski, Australia

Co-Chair: Mr Carl Bladh, Sweden

Rapporteur:  Mr Ronald Pacheco, IAEA

Speakers:

Ms Olga German, IAEA: Justification and authorization in relation to non-medical human imaging

Mr Denis Remedios, UK: Application of non-medical human imaging in sport and for age assessment

Mr Andreas Reis, WHO: Ethical aspects of non-medical human imaging

Panel members:

Mr Shengli Niu, ILO

Mr Nurhadiansyah Nurhadiansyah, Indonesia

Mr Charles Massey, IAEA

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Chair: Mr David Allard, United States of America

Co-Chair: Ms Yevheniia Anpilova, Ukraine

Rapporteur: Ms Lenka Dojcanova, IAEA

Presentations:

Mr Peter Bryant, United Kingdom: Perceived vs. actual - the challenge of communicating radiation risk in the modern world

Mr Andreas Leupin and Mr Roland Scheidegger, Switzerland:  How to improve the communication of the radiation protection system to stakeholders and the public

Mr Khammar Mrabit, Morocco: Information and Communication in radiation safety: Challenges and good practices from the Moroccan experience

Mr John Lindberg, United Kingdom: An appraisal of the impacts of “radiophobia” on effective radiation protection, and the need for a new communications paradigm

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Chair: Mr Sigurdur Magnusson, Iceland

Co-Chair:  Mr Maxwell Daniels, IAEA

Rapporteur: Mr Tony Colgan, IAEA

Keynote Presentation

Ms Claire Cousins, Chair of ICRP: The Future Direction of Radiological Protection

Panel Discussion

Panelists

Ms Louisa Mpete, South Africa

Ms Fiona Charalambous, Australia

Mr Peter Bryant, UK

Ms Eliana Amaral, Brazil

Mr Mike Boyd, USA

Summary by the Conference President:  Ms Rosario Velasco Garcia, Spain

Closing of the conference: Mr Juan Carlos Lentijo, Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, IAEA

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