Passmore Christopher Neil, Kirr Mirela
*Landauer, 2 Science Road, Glenwood, IL 60425-1586.
Health Phys. 2017 Dec;113(6):531-534. doi: 10.1097/HP.0000000000000726.
One of the main goals for Radiation Safety Professionals is to help maintain radiation worker doses below administrative control levels. In the radiation safety field there is an increasing recognition of the value of dosimetry-related data that can be used to enhance safety programs and regulatory compliance. Mining radiation dosimetry data and rendering results in the form of dashboards provides insights for the Radiation Safety Professionals that could help improve the radiological protection programs effectiveness, enhances quality, and reduces cost. Quite often the professionals spend more time assembling data than analyzing for trends and acting to improve the radiation safety program. Data analysis tools were developed allowing the radiation safety professionals to perform surveillance on key parameters in the dosimetry program that can help identifying risks and insure early intervention. More than 2,200 institutions chosen from different industries were surveyed for more than 2 years after the implementation of this tool. Four indicators: dose per participant, collective dose, dosimeter return compliance, and number of workers exceeding ALARA levels were chosen as meaningful parameters in characterizing the health of the program. These parameters were tracked, analyzed, and compared to benchmarks developed based on more than 1 million monitored workers.
辐射安全专业人员的主要目标之一是帮助将辐射工作人员的剂量维持在行政控制水平以下。在辐射安全领域，人们越来越认识到剂量学相关数据的价值，这些数据可用于加强安全计划和法规遵从性。挖掘辐射剂量学数据并以仪表板的形式呈现结果，可为辐射安全专业人员提供见解，有助于提高放射防护计划的有效性、提升质量并降低成本。专业人员常常花费更多时间收集数据，而不是分析趋势并采取行动改进辐射安全计划。开发了数据分析工具，使辐射安全专业人员能够对剂量学计划中的关键参数进行监测，有助于识别风险并确保早期干预。在实施该工具后的两年多时间里，对来自不同行业的2200多家机构进行了调查。选择四个指标：每位参与者的剂量、集体剂量、剂量计返还合规性以及超过最优化辐射防护水平的工作人员数量，作为表征该计划健康状况的有意义参数。对这些参数进行跟踪、分析，并与基于100多万名受监测工作人员制定的基准进行比较。
