As long as humans are involved, errors harming patients during medical radiation procedures such as X-Ray or radiotherapy could happen. So how can the IAEA help?
A new IAEA training offers medical professionals to strengthen patterns of good behaviour and attitudes. The right mindset and strong safety culture in medical institutions can reduce overall dose to staff and unnecessary and unintended dose to patients. The new training material will be officially launched in May 2020.
At a meeting on this topic, 25 participants discussed and reviewed the future training material, and also addressed traits and related scenarios structured around safety culture. These include personal accountability, effective communication, strong leadership, comprehensive decision-making and effective work processes in place, respectful work environment enabling staff raise concerns, identify problems, ask questions, and continuously learn.
The training material will be accompanied by interactive digital presentations produced by medical facilities, and winners of the recent IAEA competition. “This is a new and innovative way on how to engage our stakeholders directly from medical facilities,” said Juan Carlos Lentijo, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security.
“All presentations provide excellent examples of improvements made in radiation safety culture worldwide,” he added before he awarded top three winners from Greece, the United States, and New Zealand.
