Radiation safety infrastructure

This Safety Guide, which is jointly sponsored by the FAO, the IAEA, the International Labour Office, the PAHO and the WHO, gives detailed guidance on the key elements for the organization and operation of a national regulatory infrastructure for radiation safety, with particular reference to the functions of the national regulatory body that are necessary to ensure the implementation of the Basic Safety Standards. The Safety Guide is based technically on material first published in IAEA-TECDOC-1067 which was jointly sponsored by the FAO, the IAEA, the OECD/NEA, the PAHO and the WHO. The requirements established in GS-R-1 have been taken into account. 

The Basic Safety Standards [2] can be applied only by means of an effective infrastructure for radiation safety, which includes adequate legislation and regulations, an efficient regulatory system, supporting experts and services, and a commitment to safety shared by all those with responsibilities for protection and safety, including both management and workers. 

Baffling complexity of solution of nuclear, radiation and environmental safety challenges at the TSF in question is further aggravated by poor condition of its infrastructure giving presently no way of performing radiation-hazardous operations on TSF rehabilitation. 

The IAEA Safety Requirements publication on Legal and Governmental Infrastructure for Nuclear, Radiation, Radioactive Waste and Transport Safety [ 1 ] sets out the requirements for a regulatory infrastructure. These include requirements in respect of the establishment of an independent regulatory body for nuclear facilities and the responsibilities and functions to be assigned to it. 

The Safety Guide is oriented towards national regulatory infrastructures concerned with protection and safety for radiation sources used in medicine, industry, agriculture, research and education. 

This Safety Guide covers the elements of a national regulatory infrastructure necessary to achieve an appropriate level of protection and safety for radiation sources used in medicine, industry, agriculture, research and education. It also provides guidance on the organization and implementation of a system for the regulatory control of radiation sources. 

AR4 Legal and governmental infrastructure for nuclear, radiation, radioactive waste and transport safety, GS-R-1, 31 October 2000. 

LEGAL AND GOVERNMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR NUCLEAR, RADIATION, RADIOACTIVE WASTE AND TRANSPORT SAFETY SAFETY REQUIREMENTS Safety Standards Series No. GS-R-1... 

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