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tional health and industrial hygiene programs holders and the manifestations of collective
involving a continuous process of information will. The project recommended a more effec-
gathering. The use of a systematic method to tive policy of mass dissemination, promoting
characterize workplace exposures to chemical, clarifications to the society as a whole and not
physical and biological risks is a fundamental only to the population of the surrounding area
part of this process. The study aimed to carry as a more effectively characterization of the
out an evaluation in a radioactive facility, iden- social responsibility.
tifying potential exposures and consequently
the existing occupational hazards (risk/ agent) Study for the development and characteriza-
in the workplace to which the worker may be tion of concepts of high specific mass for pro-
exposed. The study provided an overview of tection to the gamma and X radiation This
the perception of the risk founded at the facil- project aimed at the natural raw materials pro-
ity studied and has contributed with the oc- duced in Brazil and the production of high den-
cupational health program resources for wel- sity concrete. A methodology was developed
fare of the worker. for characterization, preparation, molding, test-
ing to determine the linear attenuation coeffi-
MicroPET Scanner- Evaluation of cient of experimental and theoretical calcula-
Ambient Radiation levels in Positron tion of the linear attenuation coefficient, and
Emission Tomography/Computed determination of the effective Z, culminating
Tomography in MicroPET-CT Laboratory with the production of an embryo stock data

for the specific high density prepared with lo-
The present project aimed to evaluate the radi- cal raw materials.
ations levels in a micro PET/CT research labo-
ratory of the IPEN-CNEN/ SP in full compliance Web-based system to unify the
with national and international standards. radiological protection programs: ionizing
The study, started in April 2014, continued radiation monitoring and optimization
for about two years. The results of this proj-
ect demonstrated that the ambient radiation This research work focuses on the potential val-
levels (ambient and effective estimated radi- ue of Information and Communication Tech-
ation dose), as well as the effective shielding nologies (ICTs) to enhance communication and
equipment were both adequate. Moreover, this education on Radiological Protection through-
study emphasized that it is essential to strict- out Brazil. The work includes the informatiza-
ly follow the principles of radioprotection in tion of the monitoring policy and techniques,
workplace, whenever researches involve ra- interrelating information currently scattered
dioactive unsealed sources. in several documents, as well as new approach-
es from some recommendations, presenting
Social responsibility in the area of nuclear en- several initiatives towards safety, such as the
ergy for power generation in Brazil The project need for an auditor monitoring and discus-
focused on nuclear energy for power genera- sions on potential exposures according to in-
tion regarding its contribution to sustainable ternational requirements established by the
development. The NBR ISO 26000: guidelines IAEA and ICRP.
on social responsibility was used as a source
of the demands and expectations of the soci- The evolution of doses
ety, the mechanisms of participation of stake- in the IEA-R1 reactor

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