South Australian Consolidated Regulations

RADIATION PROTECTION AND CONTROL (IONISING RADIATION) REGULATIONS 2000 - REG 18

18—Specified employer to issue personal monitoring device to radiation worker

        (1)         A specified employer must issue to each radiation worker employed by him or her an approved personal monitoring device or devices for detecting and measuring a time integrated exposure to ionising radiation, so that each radiation worker has such a device or devices on issue to the worker at all times while he or she is at his or her place of employment.

        (2)         If the type of ionising radiation emitted by a source of ionising radiation is of such a nature that there is no approved personal monitoring device for measuring a person's exposure to that type of radiation, the specified employer must—

            (a)         immediately advise the Minister accordingly and set out the arrangements the specified employer proposes to make to monitor the exposure to ionising radiation of persons employed by him or her; and

            (b)         make such arrangements as the Minister directs in writing for the monitoring of that type of radiation and for the calculation of personal exposures from that monitoring.

        (3)         A specified employer who issues a personal monitoring device to a radiation worker must give to the radiation worker—

            (a)         instructions; or

            (b)         if directed in writing by the Minister—instructions approved by the Minister,

on the wearing, operation or use of the personal monitoring device.

        (4)         A radiation worker to whom a personal monitoring device is issued must wear, operate or use, as the case requires, the personal monitoring device—

            (a)         in accordance with any instructions or approved instructions given to the worker under subregulation (3); and

            (b)         whenever the worker is likely to be exposed to ionising radiation as a result of his or her employment.

        (5)         A specified employer who has issued to a radiation worker a personal monitoring device must, whenever it is necessary for the device to be examined or processed—

            (a)         cause the device to be examined or processed, as the case requires; and

            (b)         cause the effective dose to be calculated and recorded,

by such persons, in such manner and at such times as are approved by the Minister.

        (6)         A specified employer who issues a personal monitoring device to a radiation worker must not subsequently issue the same device to any other person unless the dose measured by the device has been assessed and recorded.

        (7)         A radiation worker must not permit any other person to wear, operate or use a personal monitoring device issued to him or her during the period for which it is so issued.