Assessment of training needs

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Assessment of training needs

• Andrea Luciani
• ENEA
• Radiation Protection Institute, Bologna, Italy

FI6O-516529
First EUTERP Platform Workshop Vilnius, Lithuania
22-24 May 2007
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Introduction

• ENETRAP
• Main objectives
• Integration of the national resources and
  capacities for ET in RP
• Harmonization and implementation of approaches
  for ET in RP in Europe
• These issues are considered as fundemental to
  provide the necessary competence and expertise
  for the continued safe use of radiation in
  industry, medicine and research
• Preliminary action for reaching these objectives
• Assessment of ET needs and capabilities in the
  European countries

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Objective and Methodology

• WP2 Assessment of training needs and
  capabilities
• The specific objectives were
• To analyse the actual capabilities concerning the
  ET in RP
• To define more precisely the context of the
  future needs and the capacities concerning RP
  training
• A questionnaire distributed to identified
  contacts in some 31 countries.
• EU Members, New Member States, Other countries
• Constructive responses were obtained from 28 of
  the 31 countries contacted

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Background and specific informartion

• Relevant information for the assessment of ET
  needs and capabilities
• Background information on the relevancy of RP
  issues in the national context
• A. Numbers of Radiation Protection Experts (RPEs)
• B. Identification of practices
• Specific information on capabilities and needs
• C. National Capabilities for Education and
  Training in Radiation Protection
• a) fully support the national RP requirements
  (RPE and RPO level)
• b) are of any benefit in the support of RP
  requirements in other countries

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Relevancy of RP issues

• Adequacy of the number of RPEs for the national
  needs

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Relevancy of RP issues

• RPEs, Registrants and Workers
• Number of RPEs working in the European countries
  is generally of the order of hundreds or
  thousands.
• Medical sector is the most significant for the
  number of Registrants and Workers
• Medical sector is the area were the greatest
  number of RPEs are engaged, even for those
  countries where significant nuclear applications
  are undertaken.
• Adequacy of the number of RPEs
• Among 28 countries, 11 countries judged the
  number of RPEs is adequate
• 2 countries didnt express any opinion on the
  matter.
• The remaining 15 countries (2 candidate states,
  12 established states, 1 non-EU) consider their
  present number of RPEs to be inadequate (9 for
  medical sector)

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Relevancy of RP issues

• Adequacy of N of RPEs and countries RP issues
• The perceived adequacy of a countrys number of
  RPEs would be expected to depend on the extension
  and complexity of the national RP issues
• Adequacy vs. Number of RPEs, Registrants,
  Workers or a function of them

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Relevancy of RP issues

• Adequacy of N of RPEs and countries RP issues
• The perceived adequacy of a countrys number of
  RPEs would be expected to depend on the extension
  and complexity of the national RP issues
• Adequacy vs. Number of RPEs, Registrants,
  Workers or a function of them

• Correlation to the adequateness of the number of
  RPEs
• (Mann-Whitney U test - Significance at 1
  level)

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Capabilities and Needs

• Provision of general and specialized academic
  courses
• 64 of the countries (18/28) claim to provide
  academic courses in general radiation protection
• 61 of the countries (17/28) claim to provide
  specialized academic RP courses that are required
  as basic education for certain professions
  (medical physicist, regulators, etc.)
• The rest splits in very different situations
• 6/28 have no academic RP courses, neither for
  general RP education, nor for special
  professions.
• Croatia, Finland and Luxembourg no general
  academic RP course, but provide academic courses
  for health care professionals and regulators
• In Italy, Poland and Portugal general academic
  RP courses, but not for special professions

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Capabilities and Needs

• Specific training providers (OJT) capacities
  and access
• 57 of the countries (16/28) have specific
  training providers for OJT (mainly in the
  medicals sector)
• 32 of the countries (9/28) do not have specific
  OJT training providers.
• There is no information on this question from 3
  countries
• Not very quantitative estimations on
  capacitites in terms of number of trainees were
  given (between not possible to give a number
  and many.)
• In 4 countries the OJT is accessible for
  foreigners.

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Capabilities and Needs

• Sustainability of education and training
  infrastructure

• 68 (19/28) self-sustainable
• 18 (5/28) not self-sustainable
• 14 (4/28) partly self-sustainable

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Conclusions

• Fairly robust national ET infrastructures
• RP academic courses provided in more than the
  half of countries
• OJT training providers available in about half of
  the countries, mainly in the medical sector
• Most of the countries (68) have a
  self-sustainable infrastructure for their
  national needs
• ET infrastructures and RPEs
• About 40 of the countries consider the number of
  RPEs as adequate
• The countries with adequate number of RPEs have
  also generally a self-sustainable system of ET
  in RP
• Other factors may cause an inadequacy of the
  number of RPEs in those country with a
  self-sustainable system of ET in RP