Safety culture to improve accidental events reporting in radiotherapy

The potential for unintended and adverse radiation exposure in radiotherapy is real and should be studied because radiotherapy is a highly complex, multistep process which requires input from numerous individuals from different areas and steps of the radiotherapy workflow. The 'Incident' (I) is a consequence of which are not negligible from the point of view of protection or safety. A 'near miss' (NM) is defined as an event which is highly likely to happen but did not occur. The purpose of this work is to show that through a systematic reporting and analysis of these adverse events, their occurrence can be reduced.