Welcome to the Health Physics Society
Find information and answers to your questions about radiation and radiation safety/protection. For many years radiation has been beneficial to human beings for medical diagnosis and therapy, scientific research, and generating electrical power. However, when used in unsafe ways, radiation can harm people. Care must be taken to properly use radiation and to minimize unnecessary radiation exposures. The health physicist's job is to manage the beneficial use of radiation. Learn more
Radiation Safety Information
Current News
- Health Physics Journal Seeking Reviewers
- IAEA SAFRON Incident Learning System
- ICRP Lens of the Eye Webinar
- Nolan Hertel Receives Rockwell Award
- September From the President Video
- Registration Reminder for Joint ANS/HPS Conference
- September Journal
- September ORS
- ICRP Wants to Free the Annals
- September 2018 Short Course Listings
- More 2018 HPS Annual Meeting Photos
- Weinberg Papers Preservation Project Seeks Support
- September CHP Corner
- NCRP Council Members Contribute to WHO Expert Working Group
- ICRP Draft Reports in Consultation
- NCRP President Boice Interview on CEDR Program
- ICRP 2019
- ORAU's Abelquist Reflects on His Year as HPS President
- October Health Physics Journal: Editor's Pick
- AMUG 2018
Upcoming Events
- ICRP Dose Limits for the Lens of the Eye Implementation
Canadian Safety Webinar #2
27 Sep 2018
Canada/US - Adaptive MR Image-Guided Radiotherapy
Experience & Application in Routine Clinical Practice
28 Sep 2018
Miami, FL - Joint Conference on Applicability of Radiation-Response Models to Low Dose Protection Standards
30 Sep-3 Oct 2018
Pasco, WA - IAEA International Symposium on Communicating Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies to the Public
Communicating Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies Symposium 2018
1-5 Oct 2018
Vienna, Austria - Southwest & TX-VT Compacts Low Level Waste Conference
Conferences in Northern and Southern California
23 & 25 Oct 2018
Concord/Walnut Creek & Santa Ana/Orange, CA - IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference
09-17 Nov 2018
Sydney, Australia - IAEA Conference
Security of Radioactive Material: The Way Forward for Prevention and Detection
3-7 Dec 2018
Vienna, Austria - HPS Midyear Meeting
17-20 February 2019
San Diego, CA - NCRP 2019 Annual Meeting
1-2 Apr 2019
Bethesda, MD - HPS Annual Meeting
7-11 July 2019
Orlando, FL - Ninth International Symposium on Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material
23-27 September 2019
Denver, CO - 5th Int'l Symp on the System of Radiological Protection
Mines. Medicine. Mars.
19-21 Nov 2019
Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, South Australia - IRPA15
Bridging RP Culture and Science - Widening Public Empathy
11-15 May 2020
Seoul, Korea - IRPA16
Radiation Harmonization - Standing United for Protection
6-12 Jul 2024
Orlando, FL - NRC Meeting Webcasts
- IAEA Nuclear Safety & Security Meetings
- Worldwide Radiation Protection Meetings