An experience in the management of personal dosimetry and Information and Communication Technologies

One of the most frequently issues raised within the management of hospital personnel dosimetry service is the high incidence of the rate evidencing the lack of dosimeter badges replacement in personnel dosimetry on monthly basis. In this respect and following the enforcement of the dispositions ordered by the CSN (Spanish Nuclear Safety Council as Regulatory Agency) concerning the assignment of "administrative dose", such rate turns currently into a high number of these doses assigned, thus leading to an inefficient monitoring of the personnel dosimetry. In order to achieve a more suitable dosimetry monitoring it is required a more direct and tailored management of personnel dosimetry in every occupationally exposed workers as well as providing with personal and fluent information. The total number of occupationally exposed workers and the diversity and geographical dispersion of the centers under dosimetry monitoring make impossible a customized management without involving substantial resources. With the aim of achieving a more tailored management in an scenario as the one described above as well as reducing the lack of replacement of dosimeter badges in personnel dosimetry on monthly basis and the administrative doses assigned, some measures were implemented in 2009 by applying Communications and Information Technology platforms and further employees management giving as a result a 75% reduction in the rate of non replacement of dosimeter badges in personnel dosimetry.