[en] This paper summarizes a number of fatal accidents that occurred in the Chinese construction industry from 2004 to 2016, and more detailed analysis is conducted on the data between 2010 and 2016. The data collected from 2010 to 2016 reveal that 3817 fatal accidents occurred during the construction of buildings and municipal facilities. Analysis is conducted to reveal the reasons of these construction accidents. The number of fatalities and accidents, the types of accidents, the effect of climate factors, the time period distribution of accidents, and provincial distribution are analyzed and compared. The results show that, falling from heights is the main cause of fatal accidents. The number of fatalities and accidents varies sharply across provinces and is closely related to the climate (the same gross output with less accidents in the cold weather areas). Due to annual transferring and traditional Chinese Spring Festival, project schedule is generally arranged less in December, January, and February so that a lower number of accidents are reported in these months. Daily, accidents in the afternoon are higher than that in the morning.

[en] ADaMS is CERN's Access Distribution and Management System. It evaluates access authorisations to more than 400 zones and for more than 35000 persons. Although accesses are granted based on a combination of training courses, administrative authorisations and the radio-protection situation of an individual, the policies and technicalities are constantly evolving along with the laboratory's activities; the current version of ADaMS is based on a 7 year old design, and is starting to show its limits. A version 3 of ADaMS will allow improved synchronization with CERN's scheduling and planning tools (used heavily during technical shutdowns, for instance), will allow CERN's training catalogue to change without impacting access management and will simplify and reduce the administrative workload of granting access. The new version will provide enhanced self-services to end users by focusing on access points (the physical barriers) instead of safety zones. ADaMS 3 will be able to cope better with changing and new requirements, as well as the multiplication of access points. The project requires the cooperation of a dozen services at CERN, and should take 18 months to develop. (author)

[en] An investigation of 2,6-diphenyl-1,4-benzoquinone (a class of substituted benzoquinones) and its dimer is performed to study the effect the solvents have on the reactivity of semiquinone radicals and their complexes and the courses of their reactions.

[en] Customs officers are used to the sound of radiation alarms. One third of cargo container shipments passing through the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port set off alarms on the sensitive radiation portal monitors intended to catch smuggled radiation sources and nuclear material. However, all the alerts since the device was installed in July 2016 have been caused by material such as tiles, fertilizers and construction materials. The port handles one quarter of the country’s foreign trade. A new smartphone application launched by the IAEA will help to distinguish between alarms caused by harmless amounts of naturally occurring radiation and alarms that might be a cause for concern from a security standpoint and warrant further investigation. The app is the outcome of an IAEAcoordinated research project that aims to improve the assessment of initial alarms. Researchers from the IAEA and 20 countries have worked together to improve the alarm assessment process by developing tools and algorithms for the detection software, with the goal of enabling it to distinguish between radiation from potentially smuggled man-made sources and naturally occurring radiation.

[en] The quality of regulations issued by government institutions needs to be improved and simplified to encourage the realization of Nawa Cita, so that Indonesia can become an independent nation economically and competitively. This was conveyed by President Joko Widodo through a package of economic policies that have been published. BAPETEN as a government institutions needs to take a role in this momentum by improving the quality of BAPETEN Chairmen Regulation (BCR). One way to improve the quality of regulations is to apply the quality management system ISO 9001:2015 in the process of making the regulation. By implementing ISO 9001:2015 in the regulation making process, it is expected that the regulations issued by BAPETEN in particular the BAPETEN Chairman regulations are truly qualified. (author)

[en] Customs officers are used to the sound of radiation alarms. One third of cargo container shipments passing through the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port set off alarms on the sensitive radiation portal monitors intended to catch smuggled radiation sources and nuclear material. However, all the alerts since the device was installed in July 2016 have been caused by material such as tiles, fertilizers and construction materials. The port handles one quarter of the country’s foreign trade. A new smartphone application launched by the IAEA will help to distinguish between alarms caused by harmless amounts of naturally occurring radiation and alarms that might be a cause for concern from a security standpoint and warrant further investigation. The app is the outcome of an IAEAcoordinated research project that aims to improve the assessment of initial alarms. Researchers from the IAEA and 20 countries have worked together to improve the alarm assessment process by developing tools and algorithms for the detection software, with the goal of enabling it to distinguish between radiation from potentially smuggled man-made sources and naturally occurring radiation.

[en] Introduction Incident reporting, investigation and learning are core elements of quality improvement in radiation treatment. A programmatic approach to learning from one’s mistakes, and the free exchange of this information with others on a regional, national or international scale, has the potential to improve patient safety by preventing incident recurrence or propagation, identifying and correcting system vulnerabilities and promoting a ‘just’ culture of transparency and sharing. The Canadian National System for Incident Reporting in Radiation Treatment (NSIR-RT) was developed over the last three years and is presently being refined as a collaborative initiative between the Canadian Partnership for Quality Radiotherapy (CPQR) and the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI). As an alliance among the key national professional associations in the delivery of radiotherapy in Canada, the CPQR is well-placed to provide the content expertise and community-level representation needed to ensure usability and utilization. CIHI are an independent not-for-profit organization that manages Canadian health data. As such, they bring to the project their technical and data-handling expertise as well as prior experience from development of a reporting system for Canadian medication incidents. We describe the development and refinement process for NSIR-RT and the results to date from a pilot deployment of the system. Methodology A key objective was to make NSIR-RT relevant to all radiation treatment programs in Canada regardless of location, size or practice orientation (academic vs. community care delivery). While participation in NSIR-RT is intended to be voluntary, development and refinement of the system was structured to motivate uptake and utilization by broadly engaging the Canadian radiation treatment community at every step of development. Figure 1 provides an overview of the development and refinement process.

[en] Gamma Irradiator category IV are the most common types of irradiators used for food irradiation or sterilization of health equipment. To obtain gamma irradiator category IV operation license required commissioning test report. A commissioning test is performed to ensure that all radiation safety requirements are met correctly. To facilitate the verification of licensing or inspection required a commissioning test checklist. The commissioning test checklist contains the safety features that need to be present and the acceptance criteria. All safety requirements must be full filed and all features should work properly without exception. If there is a feature that fails in the commissioning test then the irradiator can not be operated and may cause the risk of a radiation accident. The performance of safety features should be balanced with good operating procedure performance. Occasionally irradiator facilities meet all requirements of the commissioning test, if the operating procedure is not good, then radiation safety will not be achieved and the risk of accidents still exist. (author)

[en] Customs officers are used to the sound of radiation alarms. One third of cargo container shipments passing through the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port set off alarms on the sensitive radiation portal monitors intended to catch smuggled radiation sources and nuclear material. However, all the alerts since the device was installed in July 2016 have been caused by material such as tiles, fertilizers and construction materials. The port handles one quarter of the country’s foreign trade. A new smartphone application launched by the IAEA will help to distinguish between alarms caused by harmless amounts of naturally occurring radiation and alarms that might be a cause for concern from a security standpoint and warrant further investigation. The app is the outcome of an IAEAcoordinated research project that aims to improve the assessment of initial alarms. Researchers from the IAEA and 20 countries have worked together to improve the alarm assessment process by developing tools and algorithms for the detection software, with the goal of enabling it to distinguish between radiation from potentially smuggled man-made sources and naturally occurring radiation.

[en] As stipulated in the Act Nr. 10 Year 1997 on Nuclear Energy that any utilization of nuclear energy shall be subjected for licensing. Government Regulation Nr. 29 Year 2008 on Licensing of the Utilization of Ionizing Radiation Sources and Nuclear Materials is dividing the utilization activities into 3 groups: group A, B and C, one of which is license for radioactive material storage. A license for radioactive material storage is required by the TENORM producer when the TENORM producers failed to intervene through remedial action until it reaches certain value below the intervention level. The provisions of the intervention are described in Government Regulation Nr. 33 Year 2 and further regulate in BAPETEN Chairman Regulation Nr. 9 Year 2009 on Intervention Exposure from Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials. The licensee shall conduct analysis in order to know the radioactivity content in TENORM. Radioactivity analysis should be performed by an accredited laboratory. In the development of this regulation, the laboratory of environmental radioactivity analysis must be accredited by the National Accreditation Committee (KAN) or other state accreditation agencies that posses Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) agreements with KAN. An accredited laboratory must obtain a registration letter from the BAPETEN Chairman by submitting an application to the BAPETEN Chairman. The validity period of the registration letter in accordance with the validity period of the accreditation certificate. In case an accredited laboratory of environmental radioactivity analysis is not available, must be officially appointed by BAPETEN Chairman to perform radioactivity analysis. The requirements to be appointed as the laboratory for environmental radioactivity analysis should at least include administrative, management, and technical requirements. (author)