While patient safety is quite rightly a key concern for all diagnostic and interventional radiologists (IRs), occupational radiation protection awareness is often a lower priority. All too frequently, this important topic is given scant attention by educators, management and practitioners themselves. In order to respond to this growing need for radiation protection education, in 2013 CIRSE’s Radiation Protection Subcommittee launched an awareness campaign, with a special focus on radiation-induced cataracts. With the support of industry partners, the campaign was expanded into a large-scale interactive campaign...

Can you handle the risk? The 2015 Radiation Protection Pavilion offered a large number of interactive activities, services and tailored information material that could be explored by congress delegates. Located directly in the technical exhibition, the campaign covered a total area of over 250 m2, including an open auditorium and information area, an examination area, 11 industry booths and the EuroSafe information stand. Let’s talk about the risk. A very popular new feature were the Mini-Talks, which covered a broad range of hot topics in...

Observed visitor flow and delegate interest in the project by far exceeded expectations, reflecting a real demand for information on radiation safety and dose management at IR and radiology congresses, which, at most meetings, still tends to be underestimated. The distinctive feature of this campaign and a possible reason for its success was the radiation safety experience, which was hosted in a dedicated area of the exhibition and covered a broad spectrum of information needs (live talks, display material, vendors), activities (simulators, quiz, prize draw)...

Prof. Werner Jaschke, Director of the Department of Radiology, Medical University Innsbruck (AT), chairs the CIRSE Radiation Protection Subcommittee, a multidisciplinary group of world-leading radiation protection experts which was mandated by CIRSE, in the spirit of the EuroSafe campaign, to provide expertise in radiation safety matters, and initiate new activities to help increase the awareness for radiation protection among CIRSE members. Members: W. Jaschke (Chairperson, AT), G. Bartal (IL), E. Brountzos (GR), M. Bezzi (IT), S. Efstatopoulos (GR), F. Fanelli (IT), P. Haage (DE), R....

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