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Incident

Any

unintended

event, including operating errors, equipment failures,

initiating events, accident precursors, near misses or other mishaps, or

unauthorized act, malicious or non-malicious, the consequences or

potential consequences of which are not negligible from the point of view of

protection or safety.

(IAEA Safety Glossary, 2007)

Radiation incident

The delivery of radiation during a course of RT is

other than intended

by

prescription, and could have or did result in unnecessary harm to the

patient.

(Towards safer radiotherapy, BJR 2008)

Incident

An

unplanned

, undesired

event that hinders completion of a task and may

cause injury, illness, or property damage or some combination of all three in

varying degrees from minor to catastrophic. Unplanned and undesired do

not mean

unable to prevent.

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