Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 3232

The Ionising Radiations Regulations 1999

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The Secretary of State, being the designated[1] Minister for the purpose of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[2] in relation to measures relating to the basic safety standards for the protection of the general public and workers against the dangers of ionising radiation, in exercise of the powers conferred by the said section 2(2) and sections 15(1), (2), (3)(a), (4)(a), (5)(b), (6)(b) and (9), 43(2), (4), (5) and (6), 52(2) and (3), 80(1) and 82(3)(a) of, and paragraphs 1(1) and (2), 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15(1), 16, 20 and 21(a) and (b) of Schedule 3 to, the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974[3] ("the 1974 Act") and of all the powers enabling him in that behalf - 
 

(a) for the purpose of giving effect without modifications to proposals submitted to him by the Health and Safety Commission under section 11(2)(d) of the 1974 Act after the carrying out by the Commission of consultations in accordance with section 50(3) of that Act; and

(b) it appearing to him that the modifications set out in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 9 to the Regulations are expedient and that it also appearing to him not to be appropriate to consult bodies in respect of such modifications in accordance with section 80(4) of the 1974 Act,
 

Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1999 and shall come into force - 
 

(a) as respect all regulations except for regulation 5, on 1st January 2000; and

(b) as respects regulation 5, on the 13th May 2000.
 

"accelerator" means an apparatus or installation in which particles are accelerated and which emits ionising radiation with an energy higher than 1MeV;

"appointed doctor" means, subject to regulation 39(5) (which relates to transitional provisions), a registered medical practitioner who is for the time being appointed in writing by the Executive for the purposes of these Regulations;

"approved" means approved for the time being in writing for the purposes of these Regulations by the Health and Safety Commission or the Executive, as the case may be, and published in such form as the Health and Safety Commission or the Executive respectively considers appropriate;

"approved dosimetry service" means, subject to regulation 39(3) (which relates to transitional provisions), a dosimetry service approved in accordance with regulation 35;

"calendar year" means a period of 12 calendar months beginning with the 1st January;

"classified person" means - 

(a) a person designated as such pursuant to regulation 20(1); and

(b) in the case of an outside worker employed by an undertaking in Northern Ireland or in another member State, a person who has been designated as a Category A exposed worker within the meaning of Article 21 of the Directive;
 

"comforter and carer" means an individual who (other than as part of his occupation) knowingly and willingly incurs an exposure to ionising radiation resulting from the support and comfort of another person who is undergoing or who has undergone any medical exposure;

"contamination" means the contamination by any radioactive substance of any surface (including any surface of the body or clothing) or any part of absorbent objects or materials or the contamination of liquids or gases by any radioactive substance;

"controlled area" means - 

(a) in the case of an area situated in Great Britain, an area which has been so designated in accordance with regulation 16(1); and

(b) in the case of an area situated in Northern Ireland or in another member State, an area subject to special rules for the purposes of protection against ionising radiation and to which access is controlled as specified in Article 19 of the Directive;
 

"the Directive" means Council Directive 96/29/Euratom[4] laying down basic safety standards for the protection of the health of workers and the general public against the dangers arising from ionising radiation;

"dose" means, in relation to ionising radiation, any dose quantity or sum of dose quantities mentioned in Schedule 4;

"dose assessment" means the dose assessment made and recorded by an approved dosimetry service in accordance with regulation 21;

"dose constraint" means a restriction on the prospective doses to individuals which may result from a defined source;

"dose limit" means, in relation to persons of a specified class, the limit on effective dose or equivalent dose specified in Schedule 4 in relation to a person of that class;

"dose rate" means, in relation to a place, the rate at which a person or part of a person would receive a dose of ionising radiation from external radiation if he were at that place being a dose rate at that place averaged over one minute;

"dose record" means, in relation to a person, the record of the doses received by that person as a result of his exposure to ionising radiation, being the record made and maintained on behalf of the employer by the approved dosimetry service in accordance with regulation 21;

"employment medical adviser" means an employment medical adviser appointed under section 56 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974;

"the Executive" means the Health and Safety Executive;

"external radiation" means, in relation to a person, ionising radiation coming from outside the body of that person;

"health record" means, subject to regulation 39(7) (which relates to transitional provisions), in relation to an employee, the record of medical surveillance of that employee maintained by the employer in accordance with regulation 24(3);

"internal radiation" means, in relation to a person, ionising radiation coming from inside the body of that person;

"ionising radiation" means the transfer of energy in the form of particles or electromagnetic waves of a wavelength of 100 nanometres or less or a frequency of 3 x 10¹⁵ hertz or more capable of producing ions directly or indirectly;

"licensee" has the meaning assigned to it by section 26(1) of the Nuclear Installations Act 1965[5];

"local rules" means rules made in accordance with regulation 17;

"maintained", where the reference is to maintaining plant, apparatus, equipment or facilities, means maintained in an efficient state, in efficient working order and good repair;

"medical exposure" means exposure of a person to ionising radiation for the purpose of his medical or dental examination or treatment which is conducted under the direction of a suitably qualified person and includes any such examination for legal purposes and any such examination or treatment conducted for the purposes of research;

"member State" means a member State of the Communities;

"outside worker" means a classified person who carries out services in the controlled area of any employer (other than the controlled area of his own employer);

"overexposure" means any exposure of a person to ionising radiation to the extent that the dose received by that person causes a dose limit relevant to that person to be exceeded or, in relation to regulation 26(2), causes a proportion of a dose limit relevant to any employee to be exceeded;

"practice" means work involving - 

(a) the production, processing, handling, use, holding, storage, transport or disposal of radioactive substances; or

(b) the operation of any electrical equipment emitting ionising radiation and containing components operating at a potential difference of more than 5kV,
 

"radiation accident" means an accident where immediate action would be required to prevent or reduce the exposure to ionising radiation of employees or any other persons;

"radiation employer" means an employer who in the course of a trade, business or other undertaking carries out work with ionising radiation and, for the purposes of regulations 5, 6 and 7, includes an employer who intends to carry out such work;

"radiation passbook" means - 

(a) in the case of an outside worker employed by an employer in Great Britain - 
 
(i) a passbook approved by the Executive for the purpose of these Regulations; or

(ii) a passbook to which regulation 39(4) (transitional provisions) applies; and
 

(b) in the case of an outside worker employed by an employer in Northern Ireland or in another member State, a passbook authorised by the competent authority for Northern Ireland or that member State, as the case may be;
 

"radiation protection adviser" means, subject to regulation 39(6) (which relates to transitional provisions), an individual who, or a body which, meets such criteria of competence as may from time to time be specified in writing by the Executive;

"radioactive substance" means any substance which contains one or more radionuclides whose activity cannot be disregarded for the purposes of radiation protection;

"sealed source" means a source containing any radioactive substance whose structure is such as to prevent, under normal conditions of use, any dispersion of radioactive substances into the environment, but it does not include any radioactive substance inside a nuclear reactor or any nuclear fuel element;

"short-lived daughters of radon 222" means polonium 218, lead 214, bismuth 214 and polonium 214;

"supervised area" means an area which has been so designated by the employer in accordance with regulation 16(3);

"trainee" means a person aged 16 years or over (including a student) who is undergoing instruction or training which involves operations which would, in the case of an employee, be work with ionising radiation;

"transport" means, in relation to a radioactive substance, carriage of that substance on a road within the meaning of, in relation to England and Wales, section 192 of the Road Traffic Act 1988[6] and, in relation to Scotland, the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984[7] or through another public place (whether on a conveyance or not), or by rail, inland waterway, sea or air and, in the case of transport on a conveyance, a substance shall be deemed as being transported from the time that it is loaded onto the conveyance for the purpose of transporting it until it is unloaded from that conveyance, but a substance shall not be considered as being transported if - 

(a) it is transported by means of a pipeline or similar means; or

(b) it forms an integral part of a conveyance and is used in connection with the operation of that conveyance;
 

"woman of reproductive capacity" means a woman who is made subject to the additional dose limit for a woman of reproductive capacity specified in paragraphs 5 and 11 of Schedule 4 by an entry in her health record made by an appointed doctor or employment medical adviser;

"work with ionising radiation" means work to which these Regulations apply by virtue of regulation 3(1).

(a) an employer includes a reference to a self-employed person and any duty imposed by these Regulations on an employer in respect of his employee shall extend to a self-employed person in respect of himself;

(b) an employee includes a reference to - 
 

(i) a self-employed person, and

(ii) a trainee who but for the operation of this sub-paragraph and paragraph (3) would not be classed as an employee;
 

(c) exposure to ionising radiation is a reference to exposure to ionising radiation arising from work with ionising radiation;

(d) a person entering, remaining in or working in a controlled or supervised area includes a reference to any part of a person entering, remaining in or working in any such area.
 

(a) the word "work" shall be extended to include any instruction or training which a person undergoes as a trainee and the meaning of "at work" shall be extended accordingly; and

(b) a trainee shall, while he is undergoing instruction or training in respect of work with ionising radiation, be treated as the employee of the person whose undertaking (whether for profit or not) is providing that instruction or training and that person shall be treated as the employer of that trainee except that the duties to the trainee imposed upon the person providing instruction or training shall only extend to matters under the control of that person.
 

(a) where only one radionuclide is involved, the quantity of that radionuclide exceeds the quantity specified in the appropriate entry in Schedule 8; or

(b) where more than one radionuclide is involved, the quantity ratio calculated in accordance with Part II of Schedule 8 exceeds one.
 

(a) in the due exercise of a power of entry conferred on him by or under any enactment; or

(b) for the purpose of undergoing a medical exposure.
 

(a) any reference to an effective dose means the sum of the effective dose to the whole body from external radiation and the committed effective dose from internal radiation; and

(b) any reference to equivalent dose to a human tissue or organ includes the committed equivalent dose to that tissue or organ from internal radiation.
 

(a) a numbered Regulation or Schedule is a reference to the Regulation or Schedule in these Regulations so numbered;

(b) a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the Regulation or Schedule in which that reference appears.
 

(a) any practice;

(b) any work (other than a practice) carried out in an atmosphere containing radon 222 gas at a concentration in air, averaged over any 24 hour period, exceeding 400 Bq m^-3 except where the concentration of the short-lived daughters of radon 222 in air averaged over any 8 hour working period does not exceed 6.24 × 10^-7Jm^-3 and

(c) any work (other than work referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) above) with any radioactive substance containing naturally occurring radionuclides.
 

    (3) The following regulations shall not apply in relation to persons undergoing medical exposures, namely regulations 7, 8, 11, 16 to 18, 23, 25, 31(1) and 34(1).

    (4) Regulation 11 shall not apply in relation to any comforter and carer.

    (5) In the case of an outside worker (working in a controlled area situated in Great Britain) employed by an employer established in Northern Ireland or in another member State, it shall be sufficient compliance with regulation 21 (dose assessment and recording) and regulation 24 (medical surveillance) if the employer complies with - 
 

(a) where the employer is established in Northern Ireland, regulations 13 and 16 of the Ionising Radiations Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1985[8]; or

(b) where the employer is established in another member State, the legislation in that State implementing Chapters II and III of Title VI of the Directive where such legislation exists.
 

    (2) Duties under these Regulations imposed upon the employer shall also be imposed upon - 
 

(a) the manager of a mine (within the meaning of section 180 of the Mines and Quarries Act 1954[9]); and

(b) the operator of a quarry (within the meaning of the Quarries Regulations 1999[10]),
 

    (3) Subject to regulation 6(1)(b), duties under these Regulations imposed upon the employer shall also be imposed on the holder of a nuclear site licence under the Nuclear Installations Act 1965[11] in so far as those duties relate to the licensed site.
 
 

Authorisation of specified practices
5.  - (1) Subject to paragraph (2), a radiation employer shall not, except in accordance with a prior authorisation granted by the Executive in writing for the purposes of this paragraph, carry out the following practices - 
 

(a) the use of electrical equipment intended to produce x-rays for the purpose of - 
 
(i) industrial radiography;

(ii) the processing of products;

(iii) research; or

(iv) the exposure of persons for medical treatment; or
 

(b) the use of accelerators, except electron microscopes.
 

    (3) An authorisation granted under paragraph (1) may be granted subject to conditions and with or without limit of time and may be revoked in writing at any time.

    (4) Where an authorisation has been granted pursuant to paragraph (1) and the radiation employer to whom the authorisation was granted subsequently makes a material change to the circumstances relating to that authorisation, that change shall forthwith be notified to the Executive by the radiation employer.

    (5) A radiation employer to whom this regulation applies and who is aggrieved by - 
 

(a) a decision of the Executive - 
 
(i) refusing to grant an authorisation under paragraph (1);

(ii) imposing a limit of time upon an authorisation granted under paragraph (1); or

(iii) revoking an authorisation under paragraph (3); or
 

(b) the terms of any conditions attached to the authorisation by the Executive under paragraph (3),
 

    (6) Sub-sections (2) to (6) of section 44 of the 1974 Act shall apply for the purposes of paragraph (5) as they apply to an appeal under section 44(1) of that Act.

    (7) The Health and Safety Licensing Appeals (Hearings Procedure) Rules 1974[12], as respects England and Wales, and the Health and Safety Licensing Appeals (Hearings Procedure) (Scotland) Rules 1974[13], as respects Scotland, shall apply to an appeal under paragraph (5) as they apply to an appeal under sub-section (1) of the said section 44, but with the modification that references to a licensing authority are to be read as references to the Executive.

Notification of specified work
6.  - (1) This regulation shall apply to work with ionising radiation except - 
 

(a) work specified in Schedule 1; and

(b) work carried on at a site licensed under section 1 of the Nuclear Installations Act 1965.
 

    (3) Where a radiation employer has notified work in accordance with paragraph (2), the Executive may, by notice in writing served on him, require that radiation employer to provide such additional particulars of that work as it may reasonably require, being any or all of the particulars specified in Schedule 3, and in such a case the radiation employer shall provide those particulars by such time as is specified in the notice or by such other time as the Executive may subsequently agree.

    (4) A notice under paragraph (3) may require the radiation employer to notify the Executive of any of the particulars specified in Schedule 3 before each occasion on which he commences work with ionising radiation.

    (5) Where a radiation employer has notified work in accordance with paragraph (2) and subsequently makes a material change in that work which would affect the particulars so notified, he shall forthwith notify the Executive of that change.

    (6) Nothing in paragraph (5) shall be taken as requiring the cessation of the work to be notified in accordance with that paragraph except where the site or any part of the site in which the work was carried on has been or is to be vacated.

    (7) Where the only work being undertaken is work referred to in regulation 3(1)(b) or (c), it shall be a sufficient compliance with paragraph (2) if the radiation employer having control of the premises where the work is carried on makes the notification required by that paragraph forthwith after the work has commenced.

    (8) In relation to work involving the care of a person to whom a radioactive medicinal product (within the meaning of the Medicines (Administration of Radioactive Substances) Regulations 1978[14]) has been administered, it shall be sufficient compliance with paragraph (2) if the notification required by that paragraph is given as soon as is practicable before the carrying out of that work.

    (9) Where in respect of work with ionising radiation carried out prior to the coming into force of these Regulations notification has been given to the Executive pursuant to any statutory requirement, the provisions of this regulation shall apply to such notification as if that notification had been given in accordance with paragraph (2).

Prior risk assessment etc.
7.  - (1) Before a radiation employer commences a new activity involving work with ionising radiation in respect of which no risk assessment has been made by him, he shall make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risk to any employee and other person for the purpose of identifying the measures he needs to take to restrict the exposure of that employee or other person to ionising radiation.

    (2) Without prejudice to paragraph (1), a radiation employer shall not carry out work with ionising radiation unless he has made an assessment sufficient to demonstrate that - 
 

(a) all hazards with the potential to cause a radiation accident have been identified; and

(b) the nature and magnitude of the risks to employees and other persons arising from those hazards have been evaluated.
 

(a) prevent any such accident;

(b) limit the consequences of any such accident which does occur; and

(c) provide employees with the information, instruction and training, and with the equipment necessary, to restrict their exposure to ionising radiation.
 

Restriction of exposure
8.  - (1) Every radiation employer shall, in relation to any work with ionising radiation that he undertakes, take all necessary steps to restrict so far as is reasonably practicable the extent to which his employees and other persons are exposed to ionising radiation.

    (2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), a radiation employer shall - 
 

(a) so far as is reasonably practicable achieve the restriction of exposure to ionising radiation required under that paragraph by means of engineering controls and design features and in addition by the provision and use of safety features and warning devices; and

(b) in addition to sub-paragraph (a) above, provide such systems of work as will, so far as is reasonably practicable, restrict the exposure to ionising radiation of employees and other persons; and

(c) in addition to sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) above, where it is reasonably practicable to further restrict exposure to ionising radiation by means of personal protective equipment, provide employees or other persons with adequate and suitable personal protective equipment (including respiratory protective equipment) unless the use of personal protective equipment of a particular kind is not appropriate having regard to the nature of the work or the circumstances of the particular case.
 

    (4) An employer who provides any system of work or personal protective equipment pursuant to this regulation shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that it is properly used or applied as the case may be.

    (5) Without prejudice to paragraph (1), a radiation employer shall ensure, that - 
 

(a) in relation to an employee who is pregnant, the conditions of exposure are such that, after her employer has been notified of the pregnancy, the equivalent dose to the foetus is unlikely to exceed 1mSv during the remainder of the pregnancy; and

(b) in relation to an employee who is breastfeeding, the conditions of exposure are restricted so as to prevent significant bodily contamination of that employee.
 

    (7) Every employer shall, for the purpose of determining whether the requirements of paragraph (1) are being met, ensure that an investigation is carried out forthwith when the effective dose of ionising radiation received by any of his employees for the first time in any calendar year exceeds 15mSv or such other lower effective dose as the employer may specify, which dose shall be specified in writing in local rules made pursuant to regulation 17(1) or, where local rules are not required, by other suitable means.

Personal protective equipment
9.  - (1) Any personal protective equipment provided by an employer pursuant to regulation 8 shall comply with any provision in the Personal Protective Equipment (EC Directive) Regulations 1992[16] which is applicable to that item of personal protective equipment.

    (2) Where in the case of respiratory protective equipment no provision of the Regulations referred to in paragraph (1) applies, that respiratory protective equipment shall satisfy the requirements of regulation 8 only if it is of a type, or conforms to a standard, approved in either case by the Executive.

    (3) Every radiation employer shall ensure that appropriate accommodation is provided for personal protective equipment when it is not being worn.

Maintenance and examination of engineering controls etc. and personal protective equipment
10.  - (1) A radiation employer who provides any engineering control, design feature, safety feature or warning device to meet the requirements of regulation 8(2)(a) shall ensure - 
 

(a) that any such control, feature or device is properly maintained; and

(b) where appropriate, that thorough examinations and tests of such controls, features or devices are carried out at suitable intervals.
 

Dose limitation
11.  - (1) Subject to paragraph (2) and to paragraph 5 of Schedule 4, every employer shall ensure that his employees and other persons within a class specified in Schedule 4 are not exposed to ionising radiation to an extent that any dose limit specified in Part I of that Schedule for such class of person is exceeded in any calendar year.

    (2) Where an employer is able to demonstrate in respect of any employee that the dose limit specified in paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 4 is impracticable having regard to the nature of the work undertaken by that employee, the employer may in respect of that employee apply the dose limits set out in paragraphs 9 to 11 of that Schedule and in such case the provisions of Part II of the Schedule shall have effect.

Contingency plans
12.  - (1) Where an assessment made in accordance with regulation 7 shows that a radiation accident is reasonably foreseeable (having regard to the steps taken by the radiation employer under paragraph (3) of that regulation), the radiation employer shall prepare a contingency plan designed to secure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the restriction of exposure to ionising radiation and the health and safety of persons who may be affected by such accident.

    (2) The radiation employer shall ensure that - 
 

(a) where local rules are required for the purposes of regulation 17, a copy of the contingency plan made in pursuance of paragraph (1) is identified in those rules and incorporated into them by way of summary or reference;

(b) any employee under his control who may be involved with or may be affected by arrangements in the plan has been given suitable and sufficient instructions and where appropriate issued with suitable dosemeters or other devices obtained in either case from the approved dosimetry service with which the radiation employer has entered into an arrangement under regulation 21; and

(c) where appropriate, rehearsals of the arrangements in the plan are carried out at suitable intervals.
 

Radiation protection adviser
13.  - (1) Subject to paragraph (3), every radiation employer shall consult such suitable radiation protection advisers as are necessary for the purpose of advising the radiation employer as to the observance of these Regulations and shall, in any event, consult one or more suitable radiation protection advisers with regard to those matters which are set out in Schedule 5.

    (2) Where a radiation protection adviser is consulted pursuant to the requirements of paragraph (1) (other than in respect of the observance of that paragraph), the radiation employer shall appoint that radiation protection adviser in writing and shall include in that appointment the scope of the advice which the radiation protection adviser is required to give.

    (3) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall require a radiation employer to consult a radiation protection adviser where the only work with ionising radiation undertaken by that employer is work specified in Schedule 1.

    (4) The radiation employer shall provide any radiation protection adviser appointed by him with adequate information and facilities for the performance of his functions.

Information, instruction and training
14. Every employer shall ensure that - 
 

(a) those of his employees who are engaged in work with ionising radiation are given appropriate training in the field of radiation protection and receive such information and instruction as is suitable and sufficient for them to know - 
 
(i) the risks to health created by exposure to ionising radiation;

(ii) the precautions which should be taken; and

(iii) the importance of complying with the medical, technical and administrative requirements of these Regulations;
 

(b) adequate information is given to other persons who are directly concerned with the work with ionising radiation carried on by the employer to ensure their health and safety so far as is reasonably practicable; and

(c) those female employees of that employer who are engaged in work with ionising radiation are informed of the possible risk arising from ionising radiation to the foetus and to a nursing infant and of the importance of those employees informing the employer in writing as soon as possible - 
 

(i) after becoming aware of their pregnancy; or

(ii) if they are breast feeding.
 

Designation of controlled or supervised areas
16.  - (1) Every employer shall designate as a controlled area any area under his control which has been identified by an assessment made by him (whether pursuant to regulation 7 or otherwise) as an area in which - 
 

(a) it is necessary for any person who enters or works in the area to follow special procedures designed to restrict significant exposure to ionising radiation in that area or prevent or limit the probability and magnitude of radiation accidents or their effects; or

(b) any person working in the area is likely to receive an effective dose greater than 6mSv a year or an equivalent dose greater than three-tenths of any relevant dose limit referred to in Schedule 4 in respect of an employee aged 18 years or above.
 

    (3) An employer shall designate as a supervised area any area under his control, not being an area designated as a controlled area - 
 

(a) where it is necessary to keep the conditions of the area under review to determine whether the area should be designated as a controlled area; or

(b) in which any person is likely to receive an effective dose greater than 1mSv a year or an equivalent dose greater than one-tenth of any relevant dose limit referred to in Schedule 4 in respect of an employee aged 18 years or above.
 

    (2) The radiation employer shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that any local rules made pursuant to paragraph (1) and which are relevant to the work being carried out are observed.

    (3) The radiation employer shall ensure that such of those rules made pursuant to paragraph (1) as are relevant are brought to the attention of those employees and other persons who may be affected by them.

    (4) The radiation employer shall - 
 

(a) appoint one or more suitable radiation protection supervisors for the purpose of securing compliance with these Regulations in respect of work carried out in any area made subject to local rules pursuant to paragraph (1); and

(b) set down in the local rules the names of such individuals so appointed.
 

(a) in the case of any controlled area - 
 
(i) the area is physically demarcated or, where this is not reasonably practicable, delineated by some other suitable means; and

(ii) suitable and sufficient signs are displayed in suitable positions indicating that the area is a controlled area, the nature of the radiation sources in that area and the risks arising from such sources; and
 

(b) in the case of any supervised area, suitable and sufficient signs giving warning of the supervised area are displayed, where appropriate, in suitable positions indicating the nature of the radiation sources and the risks arising from such sources.
 

(a) being a person other than an outside worker, is a classified person;

(b) being an outside worker, is a classified person in respect of whom the employer has taken all reasonable steps to ensure that the person - 
 

(i) is subject to individual dose assessment pursuant to regulation 21;

(ii) has been provided with and has been trained to use any personal protective equipment that may be necessary pursuant to regulation 8(2)(c);

(iii) has received any specific training required pursuant to regulation 14; and

(iv) has been certified fit for the work with ionising radiation which he is to carry out pursuant to regulation 24; or
 

(c) not being a classified person, enters or remains in the area in accordance with suitable written arrangements for the purpose of ensuring that - 
 
(i) in the case of an employee aged 18 years or over, he does not receive in any calendar year a cumulative dose of ionising radiation which would require that employee to be designated as a classified person; or

(ii) in the case of any other person, he does not receive in any calendar year a dose of ionising radiation exceeding any relevant dose limit.
 

    (4) An employer who has designated an area as a controlled area shall, in relation to an outside worker, ensure that - 
 

(a) the outside worker is subject to arrangements for estimating the dose of ionising radiation he receives whilst in the controlled area;

(b) as soon as is reasonably practicable after the services carried out by that outside worker in that controlled area are completed, an estimate of the dose received by that worker is entered into his radiation passbook; and

(c) when the radiation passbook of the outside worker is in the possession of that employer, the passbook is made available to that worker upon request.
 

    (6) In any case where there is a significant risk of the spread of radioactive contamination from a controlled area, the employer who has designated that area as a controlled area shall make adequate arrangements to restrict, so far as is reasonably practicable, the spread of such contamination.

    (7) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (6), the arrangements required by that paragraph shall, where appropriate, include - 
 

(a) the provision of suitable and sufficient washing and changing facilities for persons who enter or leave any controlled or supervised area;

(b) the proper maintenance of such washing and changing facilities;

(c) the prohibition of eating, drinking or smoking or similar activity likely to result in the ingestion of a radioactive substance by any employee in a controlled area; and

(d) the means for monitoring for contamination any person, article or goods leaving a controlled area.
 

    (2) The employer upon whom a duty is imposed by paragraph (1) shall provide suitable and sufficient equipment for carrying out the monitoring required by that paragraph, which equipment shall - 
 

(a) be properly maintained so that it remains fit for the purpose for which it was intended; and

(b) be adequately tested and examined at appropriate intervals.
 

(a) the performance of the equipment has been established by adequate tests before it has first been used; and

(b) the tests and examinations carried out pursuant to paragraph (2) and sub-paragraph (a) above have been carried out by or under the supervision of a qualified person.
 

(a) make suitable records of the results of the monitoring carried out in accordance with paragraph (1) and of the tests carried out in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3);

(b) ensure that the records of the tests carried out pursuant to sub-paragraph (a) above are authorised by a qualified person; and

(c) keep the records referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above, or copies thereof, for at least 2 years from the respective dates on which they were made.
 

Designation of classified persons
20.  - (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the employer shall designate as classified persons those of his employees who are likely to receive an effective dose in excess of 6mSv per year or an equivalent dose which exceeds three-tenths of any relevant dose limit and shall forthwith inform those employees that they have been so designated.

    (2) The employer shall not designate an employee as a classified person unless - 
 

(a) that employee is aged 18 years or over; and

(b) an appointed doctor or employment medical adviser has certified in the health record that that employee is fit for the work with ionising radiation which he is to carry out.
 

(a) an appointed doctor or employment medical adviser so requires; or

(b) the employee is no longer employed by the same employer in a capacity which is likely to result in significant exposure to ionising radiation during the remainder of the relevant calendar year.
 

(a) in respect of each of his employees who is designated as a classified person, an assessment is made of all doses of ionising radiation received by such employee which are likely to be significant; and

(b) such assessments are recorded.
 

(a) the making of systematic assessments of such doses by the use of suitable individual measurement for appropriate periods or, where individual measurement is inappropriate, by means of other suitable measurements; and

(b) the making and maintenance of dose records relating to each classified person.
 

(a) to keep the records made and maintained pursuant to the arrangements or a copy thereof until the person to whom the record relates has or would have attained the age of 75 years but in any event for at least 50 years from when they were made;

(b) to provide the employer at appropriate intervals with suitable summaries of the dose records maintained in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) above;

(c) when required by the employer, to provide him with such copies of the dose record relating to any of his employees as the employer may require;

(d) when required by the employer, to make a record of the information concerning the dose assessment relating to a classified person who ceases to be an employee of the employer, and to send that record to the Executive and a copy thereof to the employer forthwith, and a record so made is referred to in this regulation as a "termination record";

(e) within 3 months, or such longer period as the Executive may agree, of the end of each calendar year to send to the Executive summaries of all current dose records relating to that year;

(f) when required by the Executive, to provide it with copies of any dose records;

(g) where a dose is estimated pursuant to regulation 22, to make an entry in a dose record and retain the summary of the information used to estimate that dose;

(h) where the employer employs an outside worker, to provide, where appropriate, a current radiation passbook in respect of that outside worker; and

(i) where the employer employs an outside worker who works in Northern Ireland or another member State, maintain a continuing record of the assessment of the dose received by that outside worker when working in such place.
 

    (5) An employer shall - 
 

(a) ensure that each outside worker employed by him is provided with a current individual radiation passbook which shall not be transferable to any other worker and in which shall be entered the particulars set out in Schedule 6; and

(b) make suitable arrangements to ensure that the particulars entered in the radiation passbook are kept up-to-date during the continuance of the employment of the outside worker by that employer.
 

(a) at the request of a classified person employed by him (or of a person formerly employed by him as a classified person) and on reasonable notice being given, obtain (where necessary) from the approved dosimetry service and make available to that person - 
 
(i) a copy of the dose summary provided for the purpose of paragraph (3)(b) relating to that person and made within a period of 2 years preceding the request; and

(ii) a copy of the dose record of that person; and
 

(b) when a classified person ceases to be employed by the employer, take all reasonable steps to provide to that person a copy of his termination record.
 

Estimated doses and special entries
22.  - (1) Where a dosemeter or other device is used to make any individual measurement under regulation 21(2) and that dosemeter or device is lost, damaged or destroyed or it is not practicable to assess the dose received by a classified person over any period, the employer shall make an adequate investigation of the circumstances of the case with a view to estimating the dose received by that person during that period and either - 
 

(a) in a case where there is adequate information to estimate the dose received by that person, shall send to the approved dosimetry service an adequate summary of the information used to estimate that dose and shall arrange for the approved dosimetry service to enter the estimated dose in the dose record of that person; or

(b) in a case where there is inadequate information to estimate the dose received by the classified person, shall arrange for the approved dosimetry service to enter a notional dose in the dose record of that person which shall be the proportion of the total annual dose limit for the relevant period,
 

    (2) The employer shall, at the request of the classified person (or a person formerly employed by that employer as a classified person) to whom the investigation made under paragraph (1) relates and on reasonable notice being given, make available to that person a copy of the summary sent to the approved dosimetry service under sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1).

    (3) Subject to paragraphs (5) and (8), where an employer has reasonable cause to believe that the dose received by a classified person is much greater or much less than that shown in the relevant entry of the dose record, he shall make an adequate investigation of the circumstances of the exposure of that person to ionising radiation and, if that investigation confirms his belief, the employer shall, where there is adequate information to estimate the dose received by the employee - 
 

(a) send to the approved dosimetry service an adequate summary of the information used to estimate that dose;

(b) arrange for the approved dosimetry service to enter that estimated dose in the dose record of that person and for the approved dosimetry service to identify the estimated dose in the dose record as a special entry; and

(c) notify the classified person accordingly.
 

    (5) Paragraph (3) shall not apply - 
 

(a) in respect of a classified person subject only to an annual dose limit, more than 12 months after the original entry was made in the record; and

(b) in any other case, more than 5 years after the original entry was made in the record.
 

    (7) Where the Executive concludes (whether as a result of a review carried out pursuant to paragraph (6) or otherwise) that - 
 

(a) there is reasonable cause to believe the investigation carried out pursuant to paragraph (3) was inadequate; or

(b) a reasonable estimated dose has not been established,
 

    (8) The employer shall not, without the consent of the Executive, require the approved dosimetry service to enter an estimated dose in the dose record in any case where - 
 

(a) the cumulative recorded effective dose is 20mSv or more in one calendar year; or

(b) the cumulative recorded equivalent dose for the calendar year exceeds a relevant dose limit.
 

(a) in the case of a classified person, arrange for a dose assessment to be made by the approved dosimetry service forthwith;

(b) in the case of an employee to whom a dosemeter or other device has been issued in accordance with regulation 12(2), arrange for that dosemeter or device to be examined and for the dose received to be assessed by the approved dosimetry service as soon as possible;

(c) in any other case, arrange for the dose to be assessed by an appropriate means as soon as possible, having regard to the advice of the radiation protection adviser.
 

(a) take all reasonably practicable steps to inform each person for whom a dose assessment has been made of the result of that assessment; and

(b) keep a record of the assessment or a copy thereof until the person to whom the record relates has or would have attained the age of 75 years but in any event for at least 50 years from the date of the relevant accident.
 

(a) classified persons and persons whom an employer intends to designate as classified persons;

(b) employees who have received an overexposure and are not classified persons;

(c) employees who are engaged in work with ionising radiation subject to conditions imposed by an appointed doctor or employment medical adviser under paragraph (6).
 

    (3) The employer shall ensure that a health record, containing the particulars referred to in Schedule 7, in respect of each of his employees to whom this regulation relates is made and maintained and that that record or a copy thereof is kept until the person to whom the record relates has or would have attained the age of 75 years but in any event for at least 50 years from the date of the last entry made in it.

    (4) Subject to paragraph (5), the employer shall ensure that there is a valid entry in the health record of each of his employees to whom this regulation relates (other than employees who have received an overexposure and who are not classified persons) made by an appointed doctor or employment medical adviser and an entry in the health record shall be valid - 
 

(a) for 12 months from the date it was made or treated as made by virtue of paragraph (5);

(b) for such shorter period as is specified in the entry by the appointed doctor or employment medical adviser; or

(c) until cancelled by an appointed doctor or employment medical adviser by a further entry in the record.
 

    (6) Where the appointed doctor or employment medical adviser has certified in the health record of an employee to whom this regulation relates that in his professional opinion that employee should not be engaged in work with ionising radiation or that he should only be so engaged under conditions he has specified in the health record, the employer shall not permit that employee to be engaged in the work with ionising radiation except in accordance with the conditions, if any, so specified.

    (7) Where, for the purpose of carrying out his functions under these Regulations, an appointed doctor or employment medical adviser requires to inspect any workplace, the employer shall permit him to do so.

    (8) The employer shall make available to the appointed doctor or employment medical adviser the summary of the dose record kept by the employer pursuant to regulation 21(7) and such other records kept for the purposes of these Regulations as the appointed doctor or employment medical adviser may reasonably require.

    (9) Where an employee is aggrieved by a decision recorded in the health record by an appointed doctor or employment medical adviser he may, by an application in writing to the Executive made within 3 months of the date on which he was notified of the decision, apply for that decision to be reviewed in accordance with a procedure approved for the purposes of this paragraph by the Health and Safety Commission, and the result of that review shall be notified to the employee and entered in his health record in accordance with the approved procedure.

Investigation and notification of overexposure
25.  - (1) Where a radiation employer suspects or has been informed that any person is likely to have received an overexposure as a result of work carried out by that employer, that employer shall make an immediate investigation to determine whether there are circumstances which show beyond reasonable doubt that no overexposure could have occurred and, unless this is shown, the radiation employer shall - 
 

(a) as soon as practicable notify the suspected overexposure to - 
 
(i) the Executive;

(ii) in the case of an employee of some other employer, that other employer; and

(iii) in the case of his own employee, the appointed doctor or employment medical adviser;
 

(b) as soon as practicable take reasonable steps to notify the suspected overexposure to the person affected; and

(c) make or arrange for such investigation of the circumstances of the exposure and an assessment of any relevant dose received as is necessary to determine, so far as is reasonably practicable, the measures, if any, required to be taken to prevent a recurrence of such overexposure and shall forthwith notify the results of that investigation and assessment to the persons and authorities mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) above and shall - 
 

(i) in the case of his employee, forthwith notify that employee of the results of the investigation and assessment, or

(ii) in the case of a person who is not his employee, where the investigation has shown that that person has received an overexposure, take all reasonable steps to notify him of his overexposure.
 

(a) in respect of an immediate investigation, keep that report or a copy thereof for at least 2 years from the date on which it was made; and

(b) in respect of an investigation made pursuant to sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (1), keep that report or a copy thereof until the person to whom the record relates has or would have attained the age of 75 years but in any event for at least 50 years from the date on which it was made.
 

Dose limitation for overexposed employees
26.  - (1) Without prejudice to other requirements of these Regulations and in particular regulation 24(6), where an employee has been subjected to an overexposure paragraph (2) shall apply in relation to the employment of that employee on work with ionising radiation during the remainder of the dose limitation period commencing at the end of the personal dose assessment period in which he was subjected to the overexposure.

    (2) The employer shall ensure that an employee to whom this regulation relates does not, during the remainder of the dose limitation period, receive a dose of ionising radiation greater than that proportion of any dose limit which is equal to the proportion that the remaining part of the dose limitation period bears to the whole of that period.

    (3) The employer shall inform an employee who has been subjected to an overexposure of the dose limit which is applicable to that employee for the remainder of the relevant dose limitation period.

    (4) In this regulation, "dose limitation period" means, as appropriate, a calendar year or the period of five consecutive calendar years.
 
 

Sealed sources and articles containing or embodying radioactive substances
27.  - (1) Where a radioactive substance is used as a source of ionising radiation in work with ionising radiation, the radiation employer shall ensure that, whenever reasonably practicable, the substance is in the form of a sealed source.

    (2) The radiation employer shall ensure that the design, construction and maintenance of any article containing or embodying a radioactive substance, including its bonding, immediate container or other mechanical protection, is such as to prevent the leakage of any radioactive substance - 
 

(a) in the case of a sealed source, so far as is practicable; or

(b) in the case of any other article, so far as is reasonably practicable.
 

Accounting for radioactive substances
28. For the purpose of controlling radioactive substances which are involved in work with ionising radiation which he undertakes, every radiation employer shall take such steps as are appropriate to account for and keep records of the quantity and location of those substances and shall keep those records or a copy thereof for at least 2 years from the date on which they were made and, in addition, for at least 2 years from the date of disposal of that radioactive substance.

Keeping and moving of radioactive substances
29.  - (1) Every radiation employer shall ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that any radioactive substance under his control which is not for the time being in use or being moved, transported or disposed of - 
 

(a) is kept in a suitable receptacle; and

(b) is kept in a suitable store.
 

    (3) Nothing in paragraphs (1) or (2) shall apply in relation to a radioactive substance while it is in or on the live body or corpse of a human being.

Notification of certain occurrences
30.  - (1) Every radiation employer shall forthwith notify the Executive in any case where a quantity of a radioactive substance which was under his control and which exceeds the quantity specified for that substance in column 4 of Schedule 8 - 
 

(a) has been released or is likely to have been released into the atmosphere as a gas, aerosol or dust; or

(b) has been spilled or otherwise released in such a manner as to give rise to significant contamination.
 

(a) was in accordance with a registration under section 10 of the Radioactive Substances Act 1993[17] or which was exempt from such registration by virtue of section 11 of that Act; or

(b) was in a manner specified in an authorisation to dispose of radioactive waste under section 13 of the said Act or which was exempt from such authorisation by virtue of section 15 of that Act.
 

    (4) Where a radiation employer suspects or has been informed that an occurrence notifiable under paragraph (1) or (3) may have occurred, he shall make an immediate investigation and, unless that investigation shows that no such occurrence has occurred, he shall forthwith make a notification in accordance with the relevant paragraph.

    (5) A radiation employer who makes any investigation in accordance with paragraph (4) shall make a report of that investigation and shall, unless the investigation showed that no such occurrence occurred, keep that report or a copy thereof for at least 50 years from the date on which it was made or, in any other case, for at least 2 years from the date on which it was made.

Duties of manufacturers etc. of articles for use in work with ionising radiation
31.  - (1) In the case of articles for use at work, where that work is work with ionising radiation, section 6(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974[18] (which imposes general duties on manufacturers etc. as regards articles and substances for use at work) shall be modified so that any duty imposed on any person by that subsection shall include a duty to ensure that any such article is so designed and constructed as to restrict so far as is reasonably practicable the extent to which employees and other persons are or are likely to be exposed to ionising radiation.

    (2) Where a person erects or installs an article for use at work, being work with ionising radiation, he shall - 
 

(a) where appropriate, undertake a critical examination of the way in which the article was erected or installed for the purpose of ensuring, in particular, that - 
 
(i) the safety features and warning devices operate correctly; and

(ii) there is sufficient protection for persons from exposure to ionising radiation;
 

(b) consult with the radiation protection adviser appointed by himself or by the radiation employer with regard to the nature and extent of any critical examination and the results of that examination; and

(c) provide the radiation employer with adequate information about proper use, testing and maintenance of the article.
 

    (2) An employer who has to any extent control of any radiation equipment which is used for the purpose of diagnosis and which is installed after the date of the coming into force of these Regulations shall, having regard to the extent of his control over the equipment, ensure that such equipment is provided, where practicable, with suitable means for informing the user of that equipment of the quantity of radiation produced by that equipment during a radiological procedure.

    (3) Every employer in respect of whom a duty is imposed by paragraph (1) shall, to the extent that it is reasonable for him to do so having regard to the extent of his control over the equipment, make arrangements for a suitable quality assurance programme to be provided in respect of the equipment or apparatus for the purpose of ensuring that it remains capable of restricting so far as is reasonably practicable exposure to the extent that this is compatible with the intended clinical purpose or research objective.

    (4) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (3), the quality assurance programme required by that paragraph shall require the carrying out of - 
 

(a) in respect of equipment or apparatus first used after the coming into force of this regulation, adequate testing of that equipment or apparatus before it is first used for clinical purposes;

(b) adequate testing of the performance of the equipment or apparatus at appropriate intervals and after any major maintenance procedure to that equipment or apparatus;

(c) where appropriate, such measurements at suitable intervals as are necessary to enable the assessment of representative doses from any radiation equipment to persons undergoing medical exposures.
 

    (6) Where a radiation employer suspects or has been informed that an incident may have occurred in which a person while undergoing a medical exposure was, as the result of a malfunction of, or defect in, radiation equipment under the control of that employer, exposed to ionising radiation to an extent much greater than that intended, he shall make an immediate investigation of the suspected incident and, unless that investigation shows beyond reasonable doubt that no such incident has occurred, shall forthwith notify the Executive thereof and make or arrange for a detailed investigation of the circumstances of the exposure and an assessment of the dose received.

    (7) A radiation employer who makes any investigation in accordance with paragraph (6) shall make a report of that investigation and shall - 
 

(a) in respect of an immediate report, keep that report or a copy thereof for a period of at least 2 years from the date on which it was made; and

(b) in respect of a detailed report, keep that report or a copy thereof for a period of at least 50 years from the date on which it was made.
 

Misuse of or interference with sources of ionising radiation
33. No person shall intentionally or recklessly misuse or without reasonable excuse interfere with any radioactive substance or any electrical equipment to which these Regulations apply.
 
 

Duties of employees
34.  - (1) An employee who is engaged in work with ionising radiation shall not knowingly expose himself or any other person to ionising radiation to an extent greater than is reasonably necessary for the purposes of his work, and shall exercise reasonable care while carrying out such work.

    (2) Every employee who is engaged in work with ionising radiation and for whom personal protective equipment is provided pursuant to regulation 8(2)(c) shall - 
 

(a) make full and proper use of any such personal protective equipment;

(b) forthwith report to his employer any defect he discovers in any such personal protective equipment; and

(c) take all reasonable steps to ensure that any such personal protective equipment is returned after use to the accommodation provided for it.
 

    (4) Any employee to whom regulation 21(1) or regulation 12(2)(b) relates shall comply with any reasonable requirement imposed on him by his employer for the purposes of making the measurements and assessments required under regulation 21(1) and regulation 23(1).

    (5) An employee who is subject to medical surveillance under regulation 24 shall, when required by his employer and at the cost of the employer, present himself during his working hours for such medical examination and tests as may be required for the purposes of paragraph (2) of that regulation and shall provide the appointed doctor or employment medical adviser with such information concerning his health as the appointed doctor or employment medical adviser may reasonably require.

    (6) Where an employee has reasonable cause to believe that - 
 

(a) he or some other person has received an overexposure;

(b) an occurrence mentioned in paragraph (1) or (3) of regulation 30 has occurred; or

(c) an incident mentioned in regulation 32(6) has occurred,
 

Approval of dosimetry services
35.  - (1) The Executive (or such other person as may from time to time be specified in writing by the Executive) may, by a certificate in writing, approve (in accordance with such criteria as may from time to time be specified by the Executive) a suitable dosimetry service for such of the purposes of these Regulations as are specified in the certificate.

    (2) A certificate made pursuant to paragraph (1) may be made subject to conditions and may be revoked in writing at any time.

    (3) The Executive (or such other person as may from time to time be specified in writing by the Executive) may at such suitable periods as it considers appropriate carry out a re-assessment of any approval granted pursuant to paragraph (1).

Defence on contravention
36.  - (1) In any proceedings against an employer for an offence under regulation 6(2), it shall be a defence for that employer to prove that - 
 

(a) he neither knew nor had reasonable cause to believe that he had carried out or might be required to carry out work subject to notification under that paragraph; and

(b) in a case where he discovered that he had carried out or was carrying out work subject to notification under that paragraph, he had forthwith notified the Executive of the information required by that paragraph.
 

(a) he neither knew nor had reasonable cause to believe that he had commenced a new activity involving work with ionising radiation; and

(b) in a case where he had discovered that he had commenced a new activity involving work with ionising radiation, he had as soon as practicable made an assessment as required by the said regulation 7.
 

(a) he had received and reasonably relied on a written undertaking from the supplier of the article concerned that it complied with the requirements of that paragraph; and

(b) he had complied with the requirements of paragraph (3) of that regulation.
 

(a) he had entered into a contract in writing with the employer who had designated an area as a controlled area and in which the outside worker was working or was to work for that employer to perform that duty on his behalf; and

(b) the breach of duty was a result of the failure of the employer referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above to fulfil that contract.
 

(a) he had entered into a contract in writing with the employer of an outside worker for that employer to perform that duty on his behalf; and

(b) the breach of duty was a result of the failure of the employer referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above to fulfil that contract.
 

    (7) For the purposes of enabling the other party to be charged with and convicted of an offence by virtue of section 36 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, a person who establishes a defence under this regulation shall nevertheless be treated for the purposes of that section as having committed the offence.

Exemption certificates

37.  - (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Executive may, by a certificate in writing, exempt - 
 

(a) any person or class of persons;

(b) any premises or class of premises; or

(c) any equipment, apparatus or substance or class of equipment, apparatus or substance,
 

    (2) The Executive shall not grant an exemption unless, having regard to the circumstances of the case and in particular to - 
 

(a) the conditions, if any, which it proposes to attach to the exemption; and

(b) any other requirements imposed by or under any enactments which apply to the case,
 

(c) the health and safety of persons who are likely to be affected by the exemption will not be prejudiced in consequence of it; and

(d) compliance with the fundamental radiation protection provisions underlying regulations 8(1) and (2)(a), 11, 12(1), 16(1) and 3, 19(1), 20(1), 21(1), 24(2) and 32(1) will be achieved.
 

    (2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), in any case where it is not reasonably practicable for an employer to comply with the requirements of these Regulations in so far as they relate to functions being performed by an appointed doctor or employment medical adviser or by an approved dosimetry service, it shall be sufficient compliance with any such requirements if the employer makes arrangements affording an equivalent standard of protection for his employees and those arrangements are set out in local rules.

Transitional provisions
39.  - (1) Where on or before 26th February 2000 an employer commences for the first time work which is required to be notified under regulation 6(2), it shall be sufficient compliance with that regulation if the employer notifies the Executive and notifies the required particulars before 29th January 2000.

    (2) A contingency plan made pursuant to the requirements of regulation 27 of the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1985[20] and which complied with that regulation immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations shall, for the purposes of regulation 12, be treated as if made pursuant to paragraph (1) of that regulation.

    (3) A certificate of approval granted by the Executive in respect of an approved dosimetry service under regulation 15 of the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1985 and which is valid immediately before the date of the coming into force of these Regulations, shall continue in force and shall be treated as if it had been granted under regulation 35 of these Regulations.

    (4) A radiation passbook approved for the purposes of the Ionising Radiations (Outside Workers) Regulations 1993[21] and issued prior to 30th April 2000 in respect of an outside worker employed by an employer in Great Britain and which was at that date valid shall remain valid for such time as the worker to whom the passbook relates continues to be employed by the same employer.

    (5) A doctor appointed in writing by the Executive prior to the coming into force of these Regulations for the purposes of the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1985 shall, until such time as the period specified in the appointment expires or the appointment is revoked, be deemed to have been appointed for the purposes of these Regulations.

    (6) Until 31st December 2004, an individual who or body which had before the coming into force of these Regulations been appointed by an employer as a radiation protection adviser for the purposes of the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1985 shall be deemed to meet the criteria of competence specified by the Executive for such advisers under these Regulations.

    (7) A health record which was created prior to the coming into force of these Regulations pursuant to a requirement of the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1985 shall remain valid for a period of 12 months from the date of the last entry made in it or for such shorter period as may have been specified in that record for the validity of the last entry by an appointed doctor or employment medical adviser under those Regulations, and such record shall for that period be deemed to have been kept for the purposes of regulation 24(3).

    (8) A certificate of exemption issued by the Executive pursuant to paragraph (6) of regulation 27 of the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1985 and which is valid at the coming into force of these Regulations shall continue in force until such time as it is revoked by the Executive, save that the exemption from the requirements of regulation 7 of the said 1985 Regulations shall be deemed to be an exemption from the requirements of regulation 11 of these Regulations.

    (9) Where the Executive has reasonable cause to believe that the dose received by an employee was much greater or much less than that shown in his dose record (such record having been made and maintained in accordance with regulation 13 of the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1985) the Executive may, until 30th April 2000, approve a special entry into the dose record and in such a case the employer shall arrange for the appropriate approved dosimetry service to enter the special entry in that dose record and shall give a copy of the amended dose record to the employee to whom it relates.

Modifications relating to the Ministry of Defence etc.
40.  - (1) In this regulation, any reference to - 
 

(a) "visiting forces" is a reference to visiting forces within the meaning of any provision of Part 1 of the Visiting Forces Act 1952[22]; and

(b) "headquarters or organisation" is a reference to a headquarters or organisation designated for the purposes of the International Headquarters and Defence Organisations Act 1964[23].
 

(a) Her Majesty's Forces;

(b) visiting forces;

(c) any member of a visiting force working in or attached to any headquarters or organisation; or

(d) any person engaged in work with ionising radiation for, or on behalf of, the Secretary of State for Defence,
 

    (3) Sub-paragraph (i) of regulation 21(3) shall not apply in relation to a practice carried out - 
 

(a) by or on behalf of the Secretary of State for Defence;

(b) by a visiting force; or

(c) by any member of a visiting force in or attached to any headquarters or organisation.
 

    (5) The requirements of regulation 6 to notify the particulars specified in sub-paragraphs (d) and (e) of Schedule 2 or any of the particulars specified in Schedule 3 shall not have effect in any case where the Secretary of State for Defence decides that to do so would be against the interests of national security or where suitable alternative arrangements have been agreed with the Executive.

    (6) Regulation 6(4) shall not apply to an employer in relation to work with ionising radiation undertaken for or on behalf of the Secretary of State for Defence, visiting forces or any headquarters or organisation.

    (7) Regulations 22(6), (7) and (8) and regulation 24(9) shall not apply in relation to visiting forces or any member of a visiting force working in or attached to any headquarters or organisation.

    (8) In regulation 25(1) the requirement to notify the Executive of a suspected overexposure and the results of the consequent investigation and assessment shall not apply in relation to the exposure of - 
 

(a) a member of a visiting force; or

(b) a member of a visiting force working in or attached to a headquarters or organisation.
 

    (2) Subject to paragraph (3), the following enactments are hereby revoked - 
 

(a) the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1985[24];

(b) the Ionising Radiations (Outside Workers) Regulations 1993[25];

(c) Part VI of Schedule 2 to the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992[26].
 

(a) paragraphs (1) to (3), (4)(b) and (c) and (5) of regulation 27 (Contingency plans) with the modification that - 
 
(i) in paragraph (1), the reference to regulation 25(1) of the 1985 Regulations shall be treated as a reference to regulation 7(1) or (2) of these Regulations;

(ii) in paragraph (1)(b), the reference to regulation 8(1) of and Schedule 6 to the 1985 Regulations shall be treated as a reference to regulation 16 of these Regulations;

(iii) in paragraph (4)(b), the reference to regulation 13(2) of the 1985 Regulations shall be treated as a reference to regulation 21(2) of these Regulations;
 

(b) any other provisions of the 1985 Regulations in so far as is necessary to give effect to the provisions specified in this paragraph.
 

Signed by order of the Secretary of State.
 

Larry Whitty
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions.

3rd December 1999
 
 

     1. Work with ionising radiation shall not be required to be notified in accordance with regulation 6 when the only such work being carried out is in one or more of the following categories - 
 

(a) where the concentration of activity per unit mass of a radioactive substance does not exceed the concentration specified in column 2 of Part I of Schedule 8;

(b) where the quantity of radioactive substance involved does not exceed the quantity specified in column 3 of Part I of Schedule 8;

(c) where apparatus contains radioactive substances in a quantity exceeding the values specified in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) above provided that - 
 

(i) the apparatus is of a type approved by the Executive;

(ii) the apparatus is constructed in the form of a sealed source;

(iii) the apparatus does not under normal operating conditions cause a dose rate of more than 1µSvh^-1 at a distance of 0.1m from any accessible surface; and

(iv) conditions for the disposal of the apparatus have been specified by the appropriate Agency;
 

(d) the operation of any electrical apparatus to which these Regulations apply other than apparatus referred to in sub-paragraph (e) below provided that - 
 
(i) the apparatus is of a type approved by the Executive; and

(ii) the apparatus does not under normal operating conditions cause a dose rate of more than 1µSvh^-1 at a distance of 0.1m from any accessible surface;
 

(e) the operation of - 
 
(i) any cathode ray tube intended for the display of visual images; or

(ii) any other electrical apparatus operating at a potential difference not exceeding 30kV,
 

provided that the operation of the tube or apparatus does not under normal operating conditions cause a dose rate of more than 1µSvh^-1 at a distance of 0.1m from any accessible surface;

(f) where the work involves material contaminated with radioactive substances resulting from authorised releases which the appropriate Agency has declared not to be subject to further control.
 

The following particulars shall be given in a notification under regulation 6(2) - 
 

(a) the name and address of the employer and a contact telephone or fax number or electronic mail address;

(b) the address of the premises where or from where the work activity is to be carried out and a telephone or fax number or electronic mail address at such premises;

(c) the nature of the business of the employer;

(d) into which of the following categories the source or sources of ionising radiation fall - 
 

(i) sealed source;

(ii) unsealed radioactive substance;

(iii) electrical equipment;

(iv) an atmosphere containing the short-lived daughters of radon 222;
 

(e) whether or not any source is to be used at premises other than the address given at sub-paragraph (b) above; and

(f) dates of notification and commencement of the work activity.
 

The following additional particulars may be required under regulation 6(3) - 
 

(a) a description of the work with ionising radiation;

(b) particulars of the source or sources of ionising radiation including the type of electrical equipment used or operated and the nature of any radioactive substance;

(c) the quantities of any radioactive substance involved in the work;

(d) the identity of any person engaged in the work;

(e) the date of commencement and the duration of any period over which the work is carried on;

(f) the location and description of any premises at which the work is carried out on each occasion that it is so carried out;

(g) the date of termination of the work;

(h) further information on any of the particulars listed in Schedule 2.
 

Employees of 18 years of age or above
     1. For the purposes of regulation 11(1), the limit on effective dose for any employee of 18 years of age or above shall be 20 mSv in any calendar year.

     2. Without prejudice to paragraph 1 - 
 

(a) the limit on equivalent dose for the lens of the eye shall be 150 mSv in a calendar year;

(b) the limit on equivalent dose for the skin shall be 500 mSv in a calendar year as applied to the dose averaged over any area of 1cm² regardless of the area exposed;

(c) the limit on equivalent dose for the hands, forearms, feet and ankles shall be 500 mSv in a calendar year.
 

     4. Without prejudice to paragraph 3 - 
 

(a) the limit on equivalent dose for the lens of the eye shall be 50 mSv in a calendar year;

(b) the limit on equivalent dose for the skin shall be 150 mSv in a calendar year as applied to the dose averaged over any area of 1 cm² regardless of the area exposed;

(c) the limit on equivalent dose for the hands, forearms, feet and ankles shall be 150 mSv in a calendar year.
 

Other persons
     6. Subject to paragraph 7, for the purposes of regulation 11(1) the limit on effective dose for any person other than an employee or trainee, including any person below the age of 16, shall be 1 mSv in any calendar year.

     7. Paragraph 6 shall not apply in relation to any person (not being a comforter or carer) who may be exposed to ionising radiation resulting from the medical exposure of another and in such a case the limit on effective dose for any such person shall be 5 mSv in any period of 5 consecutive calendar years.

     8. Without prejudice to paragraphs 6 and 7 - 
 

(a) the limit on equivalent dose for the lens of the eye shall be 15 mSv in any calendar year;

(b) the limit on equivalent dose for the skin shall be 50 mSv in any calendar year averaged over any 1 cm² area regardless of the area exposed;

(c) the limit on equivalent dose for the hands, forearms, feet and ankles shall be 50 mSv in a calendar year.
 

     9. For the purposes of regulation 11(2), the limit on effective dose for employees of 18 years or above shall be 100 mSv in any period of five consecutive calendar years subject to a maximum effective dose of 50 mSv in any single calendar year.

     10. Without prejudice to paragraph 9 - 
 

(a) the limit on equivalent dose for the lens of the eye shall be 150 mSv in a calendar year;

(b) the limit on equivalent dose for the skin shall be 500 mSv in a calendar year as applied to the dose averaged over any area of 1cm² regardless of the area exposed;

(c) the limit on equivalent dose for the hands, forearms, feet and ankles shall be 500 mSv in a calendar year.
 

     12. The employer shall ensure that any employee in respect of whom regulation 11(2) applies is not exposed to ionising radiation to an extent that any dose limit specified in paragraphs 9 to 11 is exceeded.

     13. An employer shall not put into effect a system of dose limitation in pursuance of regulation 11(2) unless - 
 

(a) the radiation protection adviser and any employees who are affected have been consulted;

(b) any employees affected and the approved dosimetry service have been informed in writing of the decision and of the reasons for that decision; and

(c) notice has been given to the Executive at least 28 days (or such shorter period as the Executive may allow) before the decision is put into effect giving the reasons for the decision.
 

(a) undertake an investigation into the circumstances of the exposure for the purpose of determining whether the dose limit referred to in paragraph 9 is likely to be complied with; and

(b) notify the Executive of that suspected exposure.
 

     16. Where as a result of a review undertaken pursuant to paragraph 15 an employer proposes to revert to a system of annual dose limitation pursuant to regulation 11(1), the provisions of paragraph 13 shall apply as if the reference in that paragraph to regulation 11(2) was a reference to regulation 11(1).

     17. Where an employer puts into effect a system of dose limitation in pursuance of regulation 11(2), he shall record the reasons for that decision and shall ensure that the record is preserved for a period of 50 years from the date of its making.

     18. In any case where - 
 

(a) the dose limits specified in paragraph 9 are being applied by a radiation employer in respect of an employee; and

(b) the Executive is not satisfied that it is impracticable for that employee to be subject to the dose limit specified in paragraph 1 of Part I of this Schedule,
 

     19. In any case where, as a result of a review undertaken pursuant to paragraph 15, an employer proposes to revert to an annual dose limitation pursuant to regulation 11(2), the Executive may require the employer to defer the implementation of that decision to such time as the Executive may consider appropriate having regard to the interests of the employee concerned.

     20. Any person who is aggrieved by the decision of the Executive taken pursuant to paragraphs 18 or 19 may appeal to the Secretary of State.

     21. Sub-sections (2) to (6) of section 44 of the 1974 Act shall apply for the purposes of paragraph 20 as they apply to an appeal under section 44(1) of that Act.

     22. The Health and Safety Licensing Appeals (Hearings Procedure) Rules 1974[28], as respects England and Wales, and the Health and Safety Licensing Appeals (Hearing Procedure) (Scotland) Rules 1974[29], as respects Scotland, shall apply to an appeal under paragraph 20 as they apply to an appeal under sub-section (1) of the said section 44, but with the modification that references to a licensing authority are to be read as references to the Executive.
 
 

     1. The implementation of requirements as to controlled and supervised areas.

     2. The prior examination of plans for installations and the acceptance into service of new or modified sources of ionising radiation in relation to any engineering controls, design features, safety features and warning devices provided to restrict exposure to ionising radiation.

     3. The regular calibration of equipment provided for monitoring levels of ionising radiation and the regular checking that such equipment is serviceable and correctly used.

     4. The periodic examination and testing of engineering controls, design features, safety features and warning devices and regular checking of systems of work provided to restrict exposure to ionising radiation.
 
 

     1. Individual serial number of the passbook.

     2. A statement that the passbook has been approved by the Executive for the purpose of these Regulations.

     3. Date of issue of the passbook by the approved dosimetry service.

     4. The name, telephone number and mark of endorsement of the issuing approved dosimetry service.

     5. The name, address, telephone and telex/fax number of the employer.

     6. Full name (surname, forenames), date of birth, gender and national insurance number of the outside worker to whom the passbook has been issued.

     7. Date of the last medical review of the outside worker and the relevant classification in the health record maintained under regulation 24 as fit, fit subject to conditions (which shall be specified) or unfit.

     8. The relevant dose limits applicable to the outside worker to whom the passbook has been issued.

     9. The cumulative dose assessment in mSv for the year to date for the outside worker, external (whole body, organ or tissue) and/or internal as appropriate and the date of the end of the last assessment period.

     10. In respect of services performed by the outside worker - 
 

(a) the name and address of the employer responsible for the controlled area;

(b) the period covered by the performance of the services;

(c) estimated dose information, which shall be, as appropriate - 
 

(i) an estimate of any whole body effective dose in mSv received by the outside worker;

(ii) in the event of non-uniform exposure, an estimate of the equivalent dose in mSv to organs and tissues as appropriate; and

(iii) in the event of internal contamination, an estimate of the activity taken in or the committed dose.
 

The following particulars shall be contained in a health record made for the purposes of regulation 24(3) - 
 

(a) the employee's - 
 
(i) full name;

(ii) sex;

(iii) date of birth;

(iv) permanent address; and

(v) National Insurance number;
 

(b) the date of the employee's commencement as a classified person in present employment;

(c) the nature of the employee's employment;

(d) in the case of a female employee, a statement as to whether she is likely to receive in any consecutive period of three months an equivalent dose of ionising radiation for the abdomen exceeding 13 mSv;

(e) the date of last medical examination or health review carried out in respect of the employee;

(f) the type of the last medical examination or health review carried out in respect of the employee;

(g) a statement by the appointed doctor or employment medical adviser made as a result of the last medical examination or health review carried out in respect of the employee classifying the employee as fit, fit subject to conditions (which should be specified) or unfit;

(h) in the case of a female employee in respect of whom a statement has been made under paragraph (d) to the effect that she is likely to receive in any consecutive period of three months an equivalent dose of ionising radiation for the abdomen exceeding 13 mSv, a statement by the appointed doctor or employment medical adviser certifying whether in his professional opinion the employee should be subject to the additional dose limit specified in paragraphs 5 and 11 of Schedule 4;

(i) in relation to each medical examination and health review, the name and signature of the appointed doctor or employment medical adviser;

(j) the name and address of the approved dosimetry service with whom arrangements have been made for maintaining the dose record in accordance with regulation 21.