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The May 2019 issue of SAFRON Updates on Patient Safety in Radiotherapy is now available on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) website. The IAEA supports a voluntary, anonymized, nonpunitive incident learning system for radiotherapy centers around the world. SAFRON (SAFety in RAdiation ONocolgy) collects information on near events and events that reach the patient to improve safety in radiotherapy. Twice a year, an update is published to improve the understanding of how the events occur and, more importantly, how we can learn from the events in an effort to prevent the events. The SAFRON system and its data can be viewed by anyone who registered with the NUCLEUS. A facility wishing to use SAFRON as its incident learning system will need to register and be approved.