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9th EAN Workshop on “Occupational Exposure to Natural Radiation”

This workshop focused on exchanging feedback, identifying research needs, aiding ALARA implementation, and providing recommendations for encouraging commitment to radiation protection and effective exposure management practices. Key themes included managing exposures, addressing radon challenges, stakeholder involvement, communication methods, enforcement strategies, NORM issues, and proposed recommendations for regulatory inspector training and competence development.

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9th EAN Workshop on “Occupational Exposure to Natural Radiation”

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  1. 9th EAN Workshop on“Occupational Exposure to Natural Radiation” CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Peter Shaw (HPA-RPD, UK)

  2. EAN WORKSHOPS Objectives • Exchange feedback  • Identify problems that need further research or developments • Aid the implementation of ALARA in practice • Provide recommendations

  3. How can the commitment to radiation protection be encouraged and increased? How should exposure management be implemented in practice? 8th Workshop objectives

  4. Issues from the 9th WorkshopPresentations • Introduction • Increased commitment • Managing exposures Many common themes

  5. Issues - Radon at work • It’s a big problem • workplaces • exposed workers • doses • Well known problem • Well established protection philosophy • Implementation is the problem?

  6. Radon - the challenge? • Need for national strategy and targets? • Long term public health goals • specific milestones • international comparisons • Too big for just RP community? • other Health and Safety professionals? • National Bodies? • Employer and employee organisations? • etc etc

  7. Radon - implementation • Resources always limited • set priorities, target use of resources • Stakeholder involvement • who and how? • Communication • expressing “the risk” • methods and techniques (review needed?) • involve “communicators”? • Enforcement • as a last resort?

  8. Issues - NORM • Signs of progress? • IAEA reports and work with industry • national regulations • studies, e.g. SMOPIE • Future direction • regulation according to dose criteria • measurements not models • link to industrial hygiene/existing regulation • graded approach • practical monitoring strategies

  9. Issues - NORM • But more to do? • Technical issues • dose coefficients!! • monitoring devices • Involvement of industry • More information - workers and doses • Better protection? • Don’t forget the waste

  10. Issues - a little different? • NORM • WT welding rods • justification? • Radon • Spas???

  11. RECOMMENDATIONSProposals

  12. Summary of proposed recommendations

  13. 1. Inspector/EB training and competence • Regulatory Authorities should develop and implement training policies for regulatory inspectors. This should include: • initial training programme, including scientific « core of knowledge » and inspection « code of conduct » • familiarity with how work is undertaken in sectors they will inspect • Continuous professional development • IAEA (EC?) should provide guidance to Authorities on training policies and provision.

  14. Other recommendations?

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