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Objective: To describe the characteristics of personal and professional profile of the nursing staff of the radiology industry. Methods: This is a field research with a quantitative approach, performed in a public hospital in Rio Grande do Sul, with ten employees of the nursing team. Data collection was by a questionnaire and data were tabulated and organized into charts and tables, based according to the literature on topic. Results: The subjects were female, 50% aged between 40-49 years, 60% married, 60% nursing assistants at the institution for more than three years and remain in the sector radiological more than three hours / day, 50% make use of PPE and 80% know the health risks, especially, sterility and cancer. Conclusion: The Continuing Education can be a tool to be used by nursing staff to avoid unsafe practices against ionizing radiation.

Objective: To identify the medical waste production rates (kg.bed-1.day-1) for the waste groups A, B, D (including recyclables) and E, and to verify seasonal influence in the generation of waste. Methods: Data were collected by weighing the waste, during seven consecutive days for four weeks, with each week corresponding to a season. Results: The waste production rate presented the following values in kg.bed-1.day-1 for each group: A: 0.831, B: 0.088, D: 2,607, D-Recyclable: 0.525 and E: 0.102. Based on the analysis of variance (ANOVA) test, it was not found evidence that seasonality influences with the generation of the waste. Conclusion: Hospitals with similar numbers of beds have divergent values for the waste production rates, therefore it was not possible to use a reference rate for comparison with other hospitals. Finally, the ANOVA test did not found evidence that seasonality influences the generation of the waste.