The Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2017/1075 |
(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017.(2) They come into force on 1st January 2018.(1) In these Regulations—
- “the 1974 Act” means the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974;
- “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 a registered medical practitioner who meets such recognition criteria as may from time to time be specified in writing by the Executive ;
- “approved” means approved for the time being in writing for the purposes of these Regulations by the Executive or the ONR (as the case may be) and published in such form as that body considers appropriate;
- “approved dosimetry service” means a dosimetry service approved in accordance with regulation 36;
- “authorised defence site” has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority) Regulations 1998 ;
- “calendar year” means a period of 12 months beginning with the 1st January;
- F51“carers and comforters” means individuals knowingly and willingly incurring an exposure to ionising radiation by helping, other than as part of their occupation, in the support and comfort of individuals undergoing or having undergone a medical exposure (other than as a carer and comforter) ;
- “classified outside worker” means a classified person who carries out services in the controlled area of any employer (other than the controlled area of their own employer) ;
- “classified person” means—
- (a) a person designated as such pursuant to regulation 21(1) ; and
- (b) in the case of a classified outside worker employed by an undertaking in Northern Ireland or in F65a member State, a person who has been designated as a category A exposed worker within the meaning of Article 40 of the Directive;
... - “contamination” means the unintended or undesirable presence of radioactive substances on surfaces or within solids, liquids or gases or on the human body, and “contaminated” is to be construed accordingly;
- “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 17(1) ; and
- (b) in the case of an area situated in Northern Ireland or in F65a 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 37 of the Directive;
- “the Directive” means Council Directive 2013/59/Euratom laying down basic safety standards for protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation, and repealing Directives 89/618/Euratom , 90/641/Euratom , 96/29/Euratom , 97/43/Euratom and 2003/122/Euratom ;
- “dose” means, in relation to ionising radiation, any dose quantity or sum of dose quantities mentioned in Schedule 3;
- “dose assessment” means the dose assessment made and recorded by an approved dosimetry service in accordance with regulation 22;
- “dose constraint” means a constraint set on the prospective doses of individuals which may result from a given radiation source;
- “dose limit” means, in relation to persons of a specified class, the limit on effective dose or equivalent dose specified in Schedule 3 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 that person 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 that person's exposure to ionising radiation, being the record made and maintained on behalf of their employer by the approved dosimetry service in accordance with regulation 22;
- “employment medical adviser” means an employment medical adviser appointed under section 56 of the 1974 Act;
- “external radiation” means, in relation to a person, ionising radiation coming from outside the body of that person;
- “extremities” means a person's hands, forearms, feet and ankles;
- “health record” means, in relation to an employee, the record of medical surveillance of that employee maintained by the employer in accordance with regulation 25(3) ;
- “high-activity sealed...
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