Latest reports

• Health care aid exposure during scanner calibration
• Leakage of radiolabeled dosage kits during delivery
• Loss of wastes potentially containing P-32
• Overexposure of welders due to temporary loss of ytterbium-169 (Yb-169) source
• Industrial radiography: hand injury from exposure to X-ray beam

WHO OTHEA IS FOR?

OTHEA is intended to be of use to:

* Persons working with ionising radiation sources in industry, education and research, and in the medical and veterinary field,
* Radiation Protection Experts, Advisers, Officers and Supervisors,
* Other parties with an interest in radiation incidents, such as occupational heath doctors, safety officers, etc.

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You are free to use and disseminate the reports, for example as part of a programme of radiation protection training. However, please ensure that you acknowledge OTHEA as the source. 

If you notice something wrong in a report, please contact us. We are also interested by your feedback on the use of the reports. 

What is an incident?

For OTHEA, incidents reports are selected on the basis of the value of sharing the lessons learned. Therefore, a broad variety of incidents may be included: not just incidents and accidents, but also any situation, event, behaviour or anomaly with the potential to cause an unplanned radiation exposure, or a significant decrease in the existing standard of radiation protection. This could include "near misses", contamination spills (whether people wer exposed or not) as well as more serious radiological incidents. OTHEA does not include nuclear, or nuclear-related, incidents.