NRPB Radiation at work broadsheets

Synopsis

These A2 broadsheets are suitable for use as posters, but are conveniently folded to act as leaflets. Each covers a particular source of radiation in the workplace, mainly using illustrations and captions and avoiding technical language. Topics include:

• Lasers: how lasers work, laser beams and applications, practical laser safety, laser hazards, and legislation.
• Radon in the workplace: radon exposure is a substantial risk for some people in radon-prone areas. Radon is a natural, radioactive gas with no taste, smell or colour. It comes from the minute amounts of uranium present in all earth materials such as rocks, bricks and concrete. Radon is present in all buildings; levels can be very high in some workplaces and should be reduced.
• Minerals containing natural radioactivity (formerly entitled Working with Zircon Sands): radioactivity in minerals, detection and measurement, precautions and procedures, radiation doses, regulation of work and waste disposal.
• Dental Radiography
• Industrial Radiography
• NORM in the Oil and Gas Industries
• Security Inspection Units
• Nuclear Density Moisture Gauges

Single copies are available on request without charge. Please e-mail chiltoninformationoffice@hpa.org.uk.

Orders of up to 50 copies are priced at £1.50 per copy and larger orders at £1.25 per copy 10% postage and packing in each case.

Last reviewed: 30 November 2009