South Australian Consolidated Regulations South Australian Consolidated Regulations5—Definition of annual effective dose
(1) In these
regulations—
"annual effective dose" means the sum of—
(a) the
effective dose received from external radiation during a calendar year; and
(b) the
committed effective dose received from radionuclides taken into the body
during that year calculated in the manner set out in subregulation (2).
(2) The committed
effective dose received from radionuclides taken into the body must be
calculated—
(a)
using the methods recommended by the International Commission on Radiological
Protection in—
(i)
Publication 68 Dose Co-efficients for Intakes of
Radionuclides by Workers published by the Commission, as varied from time to
time; and
(ii)
(if applicable), Publication 65 Protection Against
Radon-222 at Home and at Work published by the Commission, as varied from time
to time; and
(b) if
some of the data relevant to the circumstances of a case is not
available—using the data recommended or adopted by the International
Commission on Radiological Protection in the publications referred to in
paragraph (a).
(3) For the purposes
of subregulation (2), if—
(a) the
International Commission on Radiological Protection recommends or adopts more
than one value for an item of data; and
(b) the
information required so as to choose which of those values is relevant to the
circumstances of the case has not been obtained by the specified employer,
the value that gives rise to the largest value of committed equivalent dose
must be used in the calculation.