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National Arrangements for Incidents Involving Radioactivity (NAIR) Courses for Respondents 2012

Radioactive sources are used for a wide variety of purposes in industry, medicine, research and teaching. Each year there are thousands of transport movements of radioactive material associated with these activities. The National Arrangements for Incidents Involving Radioactivity (NAIR) exist to provide protection to the public in the event of incidents arising from the use and transport of such radioactive materials in cases where no specific plans are available or existing plans fail to operate effectively. These may involve, for example, the discovery of real or suspect radioactive material in public places.

The Arrangements have been formulated around the provision of radiological advice to the civil police since the police have the prime responsibility for ensuring the safety of the general public. Respondents provide this expert assistance on a voluntary basis and free of charge.

Who is the training for?

This course is intended for NAIR reponders whose duties encompass responding to NAIR incidents and is organised by the Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards of the Health Protection Agency (HPA CRCE), which is responsible for co-ordinating the Arrangements. Attendance of the course by staff from other organisations is permitted on a case-by-case basis and enquiries should be sent to Duncan Cox, the NAIR Coordinator at the HPA, using the contact details below.

Topics covered in the 2012 course

  • Administrative and operational aspects of the Arrangements.
  • Instrumentation, equipment and practicalities of response.
  • Practical exercises.
  • Case studies.

NAIR courses in 2012

  • Friday 20 April – HPA CRCE Chilton
  • Wednesday 9 May - HPA CRCE Leeds CANCELLED
  • Wednesday 20 June – HPA CRCE Chilton
  • Friday 5 October  – HPA CRCE Chilton
  • Tuesday 30 October – HPA CRCE Glasgow

Maps and directions to the HPA training locations

Fee

Free of charge to staff of NAIR responding organisations (morning coffee, buffet lunch and afternoon tea will be included). Travel and other subsistence is not included.

Lecturers

The lecturers will be HPA staff who are specialists in the topics covered by the course.

Course application

An application form for these courses, including the booking conditions, is available to be printed off, completed and returned to the HPA CRCE Training Centre.

CRCE standard training course boooking form (PDF, 75 KB)

Booking reference NAIR12 - please note that as the course is free certain parts of the application form should be left blank.

Please consult the booking conditions before returning the form as they are a pre-requisite for its completion. The standard terms and conditions for training courses held by the HPA CRCE are available.

Contact details

For enquiries about booking, please contact the HPA CRCE Training Centre.

For further information on NAIR respondent training courses, please contact

Duncan Cox, NAIR Co-ordinator
Health Protection Agency
Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards
Chilton
Didcot
Oxon
OX11 0RQ

Telephone: 44 (0)1235 822766
Fax: 44 (0)1235 833891
E-mail: nair@hpa.org.uk
 


Last reviewed: 23 April 2012