Who should report a radiation accident in a laboratory is described as follows:
Radiation accidents in laboratories should be reported to the person in charge of laboratory safety. The unit radiation safety management department to report.
Radiation accidents occur after the staff should first control the development of the situation, immediately report to the unit radiation protection management department, radiation protection managers to the local ecological and environmental departments, and at the same time to the competent health authorities, such as involving the loss of radioactive sources, or human factors deliberately caused radiation damage and involved in the commission of a crime, to report to the public security organs.
After the occurrence of a radiation accident, the people's government at or above the county level concerned shall, in accordance with the level of the radiation accident, initiate and organize the implementation of the corresponding emergency plan.
The competent ecological and environmental departments, public security departments, and health departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with the division of responsibilities, do the corresponding emergency work for radiation accidents:
(a) The competent ecological and environmental departments shall be responsible for the emergency response to radiation accidents, the investigation and treatment of radiation accidents and the characterization of radiation accidents, and assist the public security departments in the monitoring and recovery of the lost and stolen radioactive sources;
(b) The public security department is responsible for the investigation and recovery of lost and stolen radioactive sources;
(c) the competent health department is responsible for the medical emergency response to radiation accidents.
What are the levels of radiation accidents?
Nuclear radiation is divided into seven levels. The fourth level is characterized as an accident. Nuclear radiation levels: International Nuclear Safety and Radiation Event Scale (INES) in accordance with the severity of the nuclear leakage event level by level into seven levels, in order to be able to distinguish between level 1 to level 7 level by level of increasing severity, they are called: a single anomaly, event, serious incident, regional accident, wide-area accidents, serious accidents and major accidents, level 1 to level 3 with the " Incident" for levels 1 through 3, and "Accident" for levels 4 through 7.
Those events that do not involve safety significance are characterized by the term "deviation" and are classified as level 0. Nuclear Radiation: or radioactivity, as it is often called, is present in all matter and has been an objective fact of life for billions of years and is a normal phenomenon. Nuclear radiation is a stream of microscopic particles released during the transformation of an atomic nucleus from one structure or energy state to another.
Nuclear radiation can cause material ionization or excitation, so called ionizing radiation. Ionizing radiation is divided into direct ionizing radiation and indirect ionizing radiation. Direct ionizing radiation includes charged particles such as protons. Indirect ionizing radiation, including photons, neutrons and other uncharged particles.