{"title":"SAFETY CULTURE AS A KEY ISSUE OF RADIATION SAFETY IN MEDICAL ACTIVITIES WITH IONIZING RADIATION SOURCES","authors":"L. Aslamova, I. Kulich, O. Nasvit, N. Melenevska","doi":"10.21175/radj.2018.03.027","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":". The term ‘Safety Culture’ was first defined in 1986. Nowadays it is introduced into all areas of activities with ionizing radiation sources. The importance of Safety Culture for medical applications mirrors rapid penetration of cutting-edge technologies in the field of medical equipment, hence the need to involve extremely competent personnel. Medical physicist and doctor bear joint responsibility for the quality of healthcare services. In Ukraine, it is increasingly recognized that national education system combined with formal certification schemes for the recognition of the expertise and competence play an important role to ensure the professionalism of individual practitioners in medical physics. National regulatory framework needs to be amended and updated to ensure an effective introduction of ‘Safety Culture’ into professional and regulation practice.","PeriodicalId":378032,"journal":{"name":"RAD Association Journal","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"RAD Association Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.21175/radj.2018.03.027","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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. The term ‘Safety Culture’ was first defined in 1986. Nowadays it is introduced into all areas of activities with ionizing radiation sources. The importance of Safety Culture for medical applications mirrors rapid penetration of cutting-edge technologies in the field of medical equipment, hence the need to involve extremely competent personnel. Medical physicist and doctor bear joint responsibility for the quality of healthcare services. In Ukraine, it is increasingly recognized that national education system combined with formal certification schemes for the recognition of the expertise and competence play an important role to ensure the professionalism of individual practitioners in medical physics. National regulatory framework needs to be amended and updated to ensure an effective introduction of ‘Safety Culture’ into professional and regulation practice.