Ionizing Radiation

Course Description 

Although radiation offers many benefits, exposure to it can also threaten our health and the quality of our environment.   We cannot eliminate radiation, but this training shows how to reduce our risk by controlling our exposure to it.   Ideal learners include workers whose job duties require them to work or spend time in any portion of an area where harmful radiation may be present.

Course Objectives  

• Define ionizing radiation.
• Identify types and sources of ionizing radiation.
• Recognize the risks and health effects of radiation exposure.
• Describe basic practices to maintain radiation exposures "as low as reasonably achievable."
• Recall measures used to control radiation doses in the workplace.
• Recognize what to do in an emergency involving ionizing radiation.

Course Duration

27 minutes

Target Audience 

Managers, supervisors, engineers, technicians, or any individual working directly with this equipment or product  

Requisite Knowledge 

None