Understanding Behavior and Control
Educating radiation clinicians and medical staff on their ability to protect themselves as they face radiation exposure in their daily lives is key to their safety.
So understanding behavior truly goes to education. Educating our clinicians on radiation safety protocols. Understanding what we can do like we talked about with ALARA principle: time, distance, shielding. But also, what can we do from a behavioral standpoint? How can we use shielding to an or more optimal level? How can we be proactive in trying to lower our dose instead of reactive? And giving them control with real-time dosimetry, that when they see they are in a high dose area if they can see that they're in the yellow or red and they can optimize your shielding they can behaviorally change where they are in the room, can ultimately have a big impact on their dose reduction.