Massachusetts Environmental Health Association-Training and Resources

Radiation (training and resources)

TRAINING: Radiological Hazard Awareness for Public Health Workers

The online module will present ways to classify hazards, properties that make radiological materials hazardous, occasions when public health workers may respond to hazardous radiological issues, and examples of public health responses to hazardous radiological incidents. Important definitions, classifications, health effects, federal, state and local legal responsibilities and resources for continued study on this topic are also included. Click here to visit training site (external link to ... http://www.sph.umn.edu/ce/trainings/coursepage.asp?activityId=9289).

TRAINING: Radiological Emergency Management

This online independent study course contains information on a variety of radiological topics, including:

Fundamental principles of radiation
Nuclear threat and protective measures
Nuclear power plants
Radiological transportation accidents
Other radiological hazards 

Click here to visit training site (external link to ...http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is3.asp).

TRAINING: Nuclear/Radiological Incident Annex

The National Response Framework (NRF) presents the guiding principles that enable all response partners to prepare for and provide a unified national response to disasters and emergencies from the smallest incident to the largest catastrophe. As part of the NRF, the Incident Annexes describe the concept of operations to address specific contingency or hazard situations or an element of an incident requiring specialized application of the NRF. This course provides an introduction to the Nuclear/Radiological Incident Annex (NRIA) to the NRF.

Course Objectives
At the end of this course, students will be able to:

Describe the overall purpose of the NRIA and the policies that govern its use.
Describe the roles and responsibilities of agencies involved in the management of nuclear/radiological incidents.
Describe the types of incidents for which it would be activated and the concept of operations for a response.

Click here to visit training site (external link to ...http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is836.asp).

RESOURCE: Radioisotopes in Today's World

Learn more about radioisotopes by clicking here (external link to ...http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/brochures/br0217/r1/br0217r1.pdf).