SOCIEDADE BRASILEIRA DE
PROTEÇÃO RADIOLÓGICA
- SBPR -
BRAZILIAN RADIATION
PROTECTION SOCIETY
- SBPR -
Who is the SBPR?
• SBPR was formed in 1986
• It is a Brazilian scientific organization of
professionals who develop activities in
radiation safety.
• Number of members- near 300 members
from all scientific and technical areas
related to radiation protection applied on
medicine, industry , environmental and
research
Filiation
SBPR is associate to:
• IRPA - International Radiation Protection
Association
• FRALC - Radiation Protection Federation of Latin
America and Caribbean.
• And is member of the Iberian and Latin American
Group of Radiation Protection Societies GRIAPRA
Filiation
IRPA - International Radiation Protection Association
IRPA is an association of 17,000 individuals joining through
48 national societies in 60 countries worlwide.
If you are a member of an Associate Society, you are a
member of IRPA.
Of special interest is one figure, presented by UNSCEAR
and taken from an ICRP presentation. This figures shows
the four pillars of the global organisation of radiation
protection: UNSCEAR, ICRP, IAEA, IRPA
Homepage- www.sbpr.org.br
Meetings organized
• 2000 – Workshop on Radiation Protection in
Industry
• 2001 – V IRPA Regional Congress on Radiation
Protection and Safety and II Iberian Latin
American Congress of Radiological Protection
Societies
Meetings
2005 – RADIO 2005
– IV International Congress on Radiation Protection in
Industry and
– Ist Brazilian Congress on Radiation Protection
These events were developed in cooperation with the
ABENDE- Brazilian Association on non-destructive testing
2009 –
– I Congress of Protection Against Radiations of the
Countries of Portuguese Language, jointly with the
Portuguese Society of Protection Against the Radiations.
Lisbon, Portugal
• Organized several national courses in the area of Radiation
protection in Radiology, Radiation protection in industry
2011
• II Brazilian Congress on
Radiation Protection, in the
scope of the International
Joint Conference
RADIO 2011.
17-20 May 2011- RECIFE
International Joint Conference
RADIO 2011
2011
•
Recife, Brazil, 17 - 20 May 2011
II Congress of Protection Against Radiations
of the Community of Portuguese Language
Countries, jointly with the Portuguese
Society of Protection Against the
Radiations.
•
II Brazilian Congress on Radiation Protection
•
V International Congress on Radiation
Protection in Industry, in cooperation with
the ABENDE- Brazilian Association on nondestructive testing
2011
III Congress of Protection
Against Radiations of the
Countries of Portuguese
Language,
jointly with the
Portuguese Society of
Protection Against the
Radiations. Lisbon,
Portugal
IX Latin American IRPA
Regional Congress on
Radiation Protection and
Safety – Rio de Janeiro,
April, 2013
IRPA Regional Congress
• IX Latin American IRPA Regional
Congress on Radiation Protection and
Safety
• V Iberian and Latin American Congress
of Radiological Protection Societies
• III Brazilian Congress on Radiation
Protection
Royal Tulip Hotel, Rio de Janeiro,
April 14 - 19, 2013
What can we do together?
• Organization of an Ibero-american work
group on radiation protection to discuss
protocols and recommendation on radiation
protection for medical and industrial areas
• Organization of courses and meetings
• Prepare didactic materials
• Scientific cooperation to disseminate new
technologies in radiation protection
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