Monitoring strategy
2. Selection of personnel
Personnel who carry out monitoring should be Suitably Qualified and Experienced Personnel (SQEP) and all work should be carried out under the supervision of trained radiation protection staff.
For a large operation in the UK the team may include:
- several surveyors
- surveyor supervisor
- Radiation Protection Supervisor (RPS)
- Radiation Protection Adviser (RPA)
For a small operation it may be necessary to train the individual performing the task to an equivalent level as the RPS.
Individuals performing monitoring must be briefed on what action to take should action levels be exceeded!
Good practice online modules
- Practical radiation monitoring
- Practical radiation monitoring units
- Radiation monitoring strategy
- Choice of radiation instrument
- Radiation monitoring techniques
- Estimating surface radioactivity
- Radiation instrument calibration
- Uncertainties in radiation measurement
- Troubleshooting in radiation monitoring