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Instructor-Led Radiation Safety & Health Physics Training Courses

Training courses are offered at PTP's facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

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ORAU's Professional Training Programs (PTP) conducts a wide variety of health physics and radiation safety training courses, including our noteworthy, five-week Applied Health Physics course and multiple one-week offerings.

If you wish to discuss developing a customized radiation safety or health physics training course for delivery at your site, contact Tonya Bernhardt at 865.241.6620 or Tonya.Bernhardt@orau.org.

Note: PTP has upgraded our instructional materials to an electronic format. Attendees should bring a laptop or tablet that is wifi enabled in order to download the instructional materials on the first day of the course. Printed materials will still be available for an additional fee ($50). The print option can be selected during registration.

COVID-19: A message to our participants

Given the current situation with the COVID-19 pandemic and in order to minimize exposure to our participants and instructional staff, we are sorry to announce the cancellation of some of our courses in the table below.

At the ORAU Professional Training Programs, the health and well-being of our participants, staff and community is our top priority. We are committed to being responsive to your needs and we are placing the utmost priority on providing this training as soon as we are able to do so.

At this time, we are unsure when we will be able to offer these courses, but we will inform you as soon as the new dates are established. In the meantime, please continue to register for courses so that we may contact you when we have updated information.

We deeply apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Please contact us if you have any questions.

-The ORAU PTP Team

Instructor-Led Training Courses*

Training Dates

Course Cost
Radiation Safety Officer Webinar February 1-12, 2021 $1,995
Medical Radiation Safety Officer Webinar February 1-12, 2021 $1,995
MARSSIM CANCELLED
*Please consider registering for the October 25-29 course or our online course offering		 March 22-26, 2021 $1,995
Gamma Spectroscopy CANCELLED
*Please consider registering for our December course offering		 June 7-11, 2021 $1,995
Health Physics Statistics CANCELLED
*Please consider registering for our online course offering
 June 21-25, 2021 $1,995
Occupational Internal Dosimetry CANCELLED
*Please consider registering for our online course offering		 June 28 - July 2, 2021 $1,995
Applied Health Physics August 2 - September 3, 2021 $9,995
Introduction to Radiation Safety CANCELLED
*Please consider registering for our online course offering		 September 13-17, 2021 $1,995
Applied Health Physics Blended Series - Lab Exercises I
*Rescheduled from May 17-21, 2021		 September 13-17, 2021 $1,999
Applied Health Physics Blended Series - Lab Exercises II
*Rescheduled from May 24-28, 2021		 September 20-24, 2021 $1,999
Radiation Safety Officer Training October 4-8, 2021 $1,995
Medical Radiation Safety Officer Training October 4-8, 2021 $1,995
Site Characterization in Support of Decommissioning:
Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation		 October 18-22, 2021 $1,995
Environmental Monitoring
*Rescheduled from April 19-23, 2021		 October 25-29, 2021 $1,995
MARSSIM October 25-29, 2021 $1,995
MARSAME November 1-4, 2021 $1,595
Air Sampling for Radioactive Materials
*Rescheduled from April 12-16, 2021
 November 1-5, 2021 $1,995
Gamma Spectroscopy December 6-10, 2021 $1,995

*NOTE: The decision deadline for running a course is 30 days prior to the course start date. If there are not enough registrants at that time, the course will be canceled, so please REGISTER EARLY. If you are unable to register prior to the deadline, please contact the PTP Registrar for assistance.

  • Applied Health Physics Course instructor and students

    Applied Health Physics

    The use of radiation in industry, medicine, and education has created a need for persons trained in the principles of radiation safety and health physics. To meet this need, ORAU conducts a five-week training course—Applied Health Physics. The American Academy of Health Physics grants 40 Continuing Education Credits for completion of this course.

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  • Air Sampling

    Air Sampling for Radioactive Materials

    This five-day, laboratory-oriented course introduces participants to the basic theories and mechanics of air sampling for radionuclides. Approximately 40% of the time is spent collecting and analyzing air samples; the remaining time is devoted to lectures.

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  • Environmental Monitoring Course instructor and students in the field

    Environmental Monitoring

    This five-day, laboratory-oriented course introduces participants to the basic theories and mechanics of environmental monitoring for radioactivity. Approximately 50% of the time is spent collecting and analyzing samples; the remaining time is devoted to lectures.

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  • Gamma Spectroscopy Course instructor and students in classroom

    Gamma Spectroscopy

    This five-day, laboratory-oriented course covers the basics of radionuclide identification and quantification by gamma spectroscopy. Approximately 50% of the time will be spent in the laboratory.

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  • Health Physics Statistics Course instructor and students in classroom

    Health Physics Statistics

    This five-day course introduces participants to the use of statistics in operational health physics. The course is divided between lectures and practical laboratory activities designed to reinforce important principles. Core concepts such as probability distributions, descriptive statistics and hypothesis testing are included to support more detailed discussions on uncertainty propagation and statistical tests.

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  • Introduction to Radiation Safety Course student in lab

    Introduction to Radiation Safety

    This five-day lecture/laboratory course is an introduction to the basic science behind radiation safety and to common applications of radiation safety principles. Lectures include a description of common radiation sources, interactions of radiation with matter, biological effects, detection and measurement. Laboratory exercises emphasize radiation detection and measurement techniques using both fixed and portable instrumentation.

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  • Medical Radiation Safety Training Officer Course instructor and students

    Medical Radiation Safety Officer

    This five-day lecture/laboratory course introduces course participants to current issues and technologies in the medical applications of radiation. The issues and technologies are discussed in the context of improving and developing an institution’s radiation safety program.

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  • MARSAME Course student in class

    MARSAME

    This four-day training course focuses on the methodology and practical application of the MARSAME standard. This standard supplements the MARSSIM manual that has become the basis for real property final status surveys. The objective of the course is to provide attendees with a solid understanding of the MARSAME standard, practice through exercise and provide practical information related to its implementation.

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  • MARSSIM Training Course instructor in class

    MARSSIM

    This five-day course emphasizes the decision-making processes involved in the design and implementation of a MARSSIM-based decommissioning survey. Topics include an overview of radiological survey types, the data quality objectives process, selection and application of DCGLs, background reference area selection, survey instrument detection sensitivity, area classification, statistical design of surveys, measurement uncertainty and performing statistical tests.

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  • Human figure showing circulatory system

    Occupational Internal Dosimetry

    This five-day course is designed to provide course participants with a thorough understanding of current methods for determining radiation doses resulting from intakes of radioactive materials by workers. The course covers the basic concepts and principles of internal dose assessments, and describes the ICRP internal dosimetry systems and models currently in use in the United States and internationally.

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  • Radiation Safety Officer Training Course equipment

    Radiation Safety Officer Training

    This five-day lecture/laboratory course introduces course participants to relevant issues that influence the effectiveness of a radiation safety program. The course emphasizes a variety of administrative and technical issues that a radiation safety officer has to address. An interactive format offers the opportunity for instructor/group discussions to facilitate the learning process.

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  • Worker conducting site characterization survey

    Site Characterization in Support of Decommissioning

    This five-day course emphasizes site evaluation, data planning, survey implementation and tools, data interpretation, and decision-making processes involved in the historical site assessment, scoping survey and characterization survey phases of decommissioning. Topics include: site assessment, surveys for radiological and chemical contaminants, data quality objectives and assessments, safety evaluations, planning and budgeting.

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Contact us

For more information about ORAU's Professsional Training Programs, contact:

Registrar
ORAU Professional Training Programs 
P.O. Box 117, MS-11
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-0117
Phone: 865.576.3576
Fax: 865.241.9152
registrar@orau.org

ORAU Professional Training Programs flyer

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