Radiation Safety Specialist - Radiation Safety - Regular Full-Time 2024-11570

Salary Range: $45.910 - $58.914/hr

Hours of Work:  Days (on-call as required, flexibility required)

 Summary of Duties:

Reporting to the Manager of Radiation Safety Department, the Radiation Safety Specialist will assist with development and provision of Radiation Safety for Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (SHSC) and Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI), combined referred to as “Sunnybrook”. Radiation Safety Specialist is accountable for a broad range of support, scientific and technical expertise, for the Radiation Safety at Sunnybrook, including but not limited to executing tasks to ensure compliance with all federal regulations of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), provincial regulations of the Ministry of Health (MOH) / Ministry of Labour (MOL), Sunnybrook policies and procedures.

• Ensuring that all activities involving radiation, radiation emitting devices are conducted in accordance with applicable regulations, requirements, policies and procedures.
• Monitoring / auditing compliance with relevant regulations, requirements, policies and procedures.
• Providing radiation dose calculations and risk evaluation for patients and staff.
• Responding to, investigating and performing follow up of radiation safety related incidents/ accidents.
• Preparing technical reports including but not limited to shielding reports, dose assessment from unplanned events, and hazards / environment assessments related to radiation emitting devices.
• Performing emergency response, risk management and continuous quality improvement.
• Performing calculations for shielding plans and equipment installations.
• Supporting an appropriate radiation safety training program is developed, managed and implemented.
• Developing guidelines and documents specific to Sunnybrook employees and other stakeholders as required.
• Performing other duties as required.

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