5 days of interactive training on the essential aspects of radiological protection

• Updates about the Radiological Protection Expert and Radioactive Waste Advisor certifications
• Understanding of The System of Radiological Protection
• Insight into radiological protection in the EU
• Optimisation in environmental situations and security of sources

• Implications of radiation in biology and medicine
• Hazards, risk and risk assessment
• Instrument selection for monitoring of radiation
• Human factors related to radiological protection

The Radiological Protection Summer School programme is approved for CPD accreditation and is recognised as meeting CPD requirements by all relevant associations. Delegates will receive a certification of attendance on completion of the course and claim 30 CPD points.

• Radiation safety culture
• International recommendations on radon and their application
• Presentation from the International Atomic Energy Agency
• Brexit: understand the long and short consequences of the UK leaving Euratom

Designed to ensure attendees can identify and apply lessons learned to potential real life situations: 

• Hazard identification in radiological risk assessment
• Emergency and contingency planning 
• Stakeholder engagement and effective communication

• The System of Radiological Protection
• Radiological protection in UK and Europe
• Regulating in the non-nuclear sector
• Radiation protection in the nuclear fuel cycle

• Issues for environmental regulation
• Exploring environmental radioactivity
• Optimisation in environmental situations

• Operational health physics at a pressurised water reactor
• Radiological protection in the design of the European Pressurised Reactor
• Radiation protection in the submarine environment