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Monday, 23 June 2014, 10h00, Room 5 (3rd Floor)
UNSCEAR/WHO/IRPA Special Session
UNSCEAR’s Global Surveys on Medical Exposure Workshop on Data Collection
Organized by: Ferid Shannoun (UNSCEAR), Maria Perez (WHO), Renate Czarwinski (IRPA)
Chair: M. Perez, Co-Chair: R. Czarwinski
10:00 – 10:05 Opening and welcoming (R. Czarwinski, IRPA)
10:05 – 10:20 WHO’s Global Initiative on Radiation Safety in Health Care Settings. A special role in medical exposure surveys? (M. Perez, WHO)
10:20 – 11:00 UNSCEAR’s medical exposure surveys – including practical demonstration of the online data collection platform (F. Shannoun, UNSCEAR)
11:00 – 11:30 The Swiss experiences in collecting data on medical exposure with RADDOSE and the UNSCEAR data collection platform (D. Wittwer, FOPH, Switzerland)
11:30 – 11:55 Discussion, questions and answers
11:55 – 12:00 Closing remarks (M. Perez, WHO)
Friday, 27 June 2014, 14h30, Room 6 (3rd Floor)
ICNIRP
Joint Workshop on Radiation Protection Principles: Similarities and Differences in Ionizing and Non-Ionizing Radiation
Information and registration: www.icnirp.org/upcoming.htm
ICNIRP jointly with ICRP, ILO, IRPA, and WHO is organizing a Workshop on Radiation Principles in Geneva, Switzerland on 27 June 2014. The main objectives of this workshop are to identify similarities and differences in ionizing and non-ionizing radiation protection principles, in order to develop a reasoned and logically consistent framework across the ionizing and non-ionizing radiation spectrum. The differences in endpoints in ionizing and non-ionizing radiation (associated with stochastic and deterministic processes respectively) will be discussed, as well as the approaches towards safety/uncertainty factors, for both workers and the general public; the difference between workers and the general public may also be different for ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and so will be addressed. Further, the important issue of whether the principles of justification, optimization and limitation that govern ionizing radiation protection can or should be applied for non-ionizing radiation, will be also in the focus.