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Date: 23 May 2012
Time: 17:06
Instrument calibration service
RRPPS provides a high quality calibration and repair service for a wide range of diagnostic X-ray and radiation protection instrumentation. Experienced and knowledgeable staff can provide standard calibrations, or calibrations where special conditions apply, all with fast turn round times. The instrument calibration service is used by customers including:
- medical equipment manufacturers
- NHS medical physics departments
- specialist calibration companies
Why choose RRPPS to calibrate your instruments?
- Our experience in radiation instrument calibration dates back to the late 1980s
- The instrument calibration service provides over 1400 calibrations per year to customers from the UK and internationally
- RRPPS operates a management system accredited to BS EN ISO 9001:2000
- All of our calibrations are traceable to national standards for the X-ray radiation qualities produced to IEC and ISO standards
- Protection instruments are calibrated in accordance with the NPL Measurement Good Practice Guide No. 14, The Examination, Testing and Calibration of Portable Radiation Protection Instruments. Appropriate contamination monitor tests are offered for all types of monitors
- Purpose-built laboratories with easy access from the Midlands motorway network. Situated on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital site of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, there is good access to RRPPS for delivering and collecting instruments
- RRPPS has no formal links with any instrument manufacturer, so you can be assured of our unbiased expertise in all aspects of instrument calibration and repair
- We can arrange the carriage of instruments (including transit insurance) to and from RRPPS
- A 10-day turnaround is offered, although instruments can usually be calibrated quicker in urgent cases (there may be an extra charge for this service)
- As part of our comprehensive calibration service we also offer an electronics repair service. No repairs are carried out without your acceptance of our written quotation
- We have been a member of the Ionising Radiations Metrology Forum (IRMF) since its inauguration in 1990 and regularly participate in this group's national inter-comparisons
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