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EURADOS Working Group 2 (WG2) on Harmonization of Individual Monitoring is a network of institutions and individual monitoring services (IMSs), built up over the last 20 years, that aims to promote quality, technical excellence and good practice in Europe. In pursuit of these aims, in 2012 WG2 carried out a survey of IMSs in Europe. The survey was sent to about 170 IMS and included questions on: the use of formal quality assurance (QA) standards, QA in dosimetry, matters of practice, and common sources of error. This report details the main findings of the survey and compares them with those of an earlier study (2003). The survey found that the profile of QA is high amongst the responding IMSs, and that most are following good practice. A majority of services comply with published quality standards and good attention is paid to traceability, validation of methods, and proficiency testing. However there are some areas where lessons can be learned, for example in the assessment of measurement uncertainty; and it remains very instructive to see what the main causes of error are for IMSs in general. |
