General duties and responsibilities

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2. General duties and responsibilities

2.1. Role and responsibilities of competent authorities

2.1.1. The responsibilities of the competent authority (or authorities) concerned

with radiation protection, their terms of reference and their functions should be clearly

defined and promulgated.

2.1.2. The competent authority should formulate the necessary criteria,

standards and regulations for radiation protection in consultation with the representative

organisations of employers and workers concerned.

2.1.3. The competent authority should establish a system for notification,

registration or licensing as required in section 3.1.

2.1.4. The competent authority should provide general guidance necessary for

the implementation of the requirements.

2.1.5. The competent authority should provide a scheme for the recognition of

approved medical practitioners.

2.1.6. The competent authority should establish a system of inspection to

ensure that the measures taken are in compliance with the relevant requirements.

2.1.7. The competent authority should prescribe the content of periodic reports

from employers, in which occupational doses are reported for the purpose of

determining compliance with requirements, including the requirement that all doses be

kept as low as reasonably achievable.

2.1.8. The competent authority should prescribe the manner in which accidental

exposures, particularly those which have resulted or are expected to result in doses in

excess of the limits, should be reported.

2.1.9. The competent authority should assume the necessary power to intervene

in cases of non-compliance with the relevant requirements.

2.2. Duties and responsibilities of employers

2.2.1. The responsibility for providing adequate protection of workers against

radiations rests with the employer, even if the employer is himself a subcontractor.

2.2.2. (1) When two or more employers undertake activities simultaneously at

one workplace, they should collaborate in order to ensure compliance with national

regulations. This collaboration does not relieve the employer of the duty to secure the

health and safety of his employees.

(2) General procedures for this collaboration should be prescribed by the

competent authority, and each party should understand fully the extent of its own

responsibility and should co-operate with the other parties concerned.

(3) Such arrangements should concern in particular:

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