| dc.description.abstract | Introduction: Ionizing radiations are one of the harmful agents of the workplace that could cause serious, irreversible, and incurable injuries to people who are exposed to these radiations. Radiologist and radiotherapists are of people exposing to high levels of radiations compared to others in the community. The long-term effects of exposure to low up to moderate amounts of radiation may appear after many years. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of considering principles of health, safety, and environmental conditions in the workplace on the dose received and the prevalence of cancer among radiologist and radiotherapists.
Material and Methods: In this study, 8 hospitals, including 17 departments of radiology, radiotherapy, nuclear medicine, angiography were examined. The number of people working in these departments was 303; all of them were studied to determine the dose received and the level of safety attitude. The study was carried out in several sections as a cross-sectional and retrospective study. The prevalence of cancer in this community has been compared with the registered cases of cancer in the national population cancer registration system. The safety checklist, health requirements, and environmental guidelines were also reviewed using the information checklist.
Results: The results of the safety attitude survey showed that the average score of the safety attitude among 216 of the 303 participants in this part of the study was more than 75 out of 100. The average overall score obtained by checking checklist items in all hospitals on average in the three sections of radiation safety, general safety and emergency conditions were 75.5±10.22, 88.23±8.57, and 47.05± 10.59, respectively. The prevalence of cancer was not observed in the subjects, so there was no statistically significant relationship between safety, health and environmental principles and the prevalence of cancer.
Conclusion: In this study, the safety attitude of the people was more than average and therefore shows the positive attitude of the employees of the radiation departments towards observing the safety items. Due to the lack of cancer prevalence among radiation practitioners, there was no statistically significant
relationship between safety, health and environmental principles with cancer prevalence. However, considering the positive attitude of employees and observing safety principles, the dose received in most people was standard, so it can be concluded that positive attitude, observance of safety and health principles can have positive effects on employee health in these areas. | en_US |
