South Australian Consolidated Regulations

RADIATION PROTECTION AND CONTROL (IONISING RADIATION) REGULATIONS 2000 - REG 9

9—Duties of specified employer

        (1)         This regulation applies to—

            (a)         apparatus; and

            (b)         source control mechanisms and other devices containing a sealed radioactive source; and

            (c)         radiation monitoring equipment; and

            (d)         radiation warning devices; and

            (e)         protective clothing, fume cupboards, interlocks, signs, labels and any other radiation protection equipment or devices,

supplied by a specified employer for his or her use during the course of his or her profession, trade or occupation or for the use of any radiation worker during the course of the worker's employment with the specified employer.

        (2)         A specified employer must at all times keep or cause to be kept in good working order and condition any article, device or thing to which this regulation applies.

        (3)         If a specified employer discovers in any article, device or thing to which this regulation applies a fault or defect that is likely to increase the exposure to ionising radiation of any person, the specified employer must—

            (a)         immediately inform all persons who use, work with, inspect, test, handle, are protected from exposure to ionising radiation by or otherwise deal with the article, device or thing of the nature of the fault or defect; and

            (b)         cause the fault or defect to be remedied as soon as is reasonably practicable.