title: Improving radiation safety hazard communication through nuclide safety data sheets.
abstract: Providing nuclide-specific radiation safety information to radioactive material users constitutes a primary role for the institutional health physicist. Often radioactive material vendors' safety literature fills this need, but may leave out key information (e.g., site-specific requirements) that the radiation safety program would like to convey. Instead, time Nuclide Safety Data Sheet concept provides this safety information using a hazard communication medium and format--the Material Safety Data Sheet--that is well established in the workplace. In addition to allowing institutions to customize time information provided to radioactive material users, the Nuclide Safety Data Sheet also gives workers a familiar format in which to view radiation hazard communication information.
authors.affiliation: Duke University Radiation Safety, Durham, NC 27710, USA. edwar086@mc.duke.edu
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Edwards
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health; D011835:Radiation Protection; D011868:Radioisotopes / Q000009:adverse effects*; D012306:Risk; D017751:Safety Management
chemical_list: D011868:Radioisotopes