South Australian Current Regulations South Australian Current Regulations86—Employer to provide for radiation monitoring and dose assessment
(1) An employer must
ensure that the time integrated exposure to ionising radiation for each worker
to whom this regulation applies is measured using an approved personal
radiation monitoring device or approved method while the worker is at a work
site.
Maximum penalty: $10 000.
Expiation fee: $500.
(2) This regulation
applies to a worker who, in the course of work associated with one or more
facilities or premises operated by an employer, will receive a radiation dose
that exceeds—
(a)
under all foreseeable scenarios (including credible accident
scenarios)—1 mSv per year; or
(b)
under low probability scenarios (where the probability of occurrence of a
scenario does not exceed 10 -2 per year)—a dose limit specified in
regulation 85(1)(a) or (2).
(3) 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
worker's exposure to that type of radiation, the employer must—
(a)
immediately advise the Minister accordingly and set out the arrangements the
employer proposes to make to monitor or model the exposure to ionising
radiation of workers employed by the employer; and
(b) make
such arrangements as the Minister directs in writing for the monitoring or
modelling of that type of radiation and for the calculation of personal
exposures from that monitoring or modelling (as the case requires).
Maximum penalty: $10 000.
Expiation fee: $500.
(4) A 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;
and
(b)
whenever the worker is likely to be exposed to ionising radiation as a result
of the worker's employment.
Maximum penalty: $10 000.
Expiation fee: $500.
(5) An employer who
has issued to a 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.
Maximum penalty: $10 000.
Expiation fee: $500.
(6) An employer who
issues a personal monitoring device to a worker must not subsequently issue
the same device to any other person unless the dose measured by the device has
been assessed and recorded.
Maximum penalty: $10 000.
Expiation fee: $500.
(7) A worker must not
permit any other person to wear, operate or use a personal monitoring device
issued to the worker during the period for which it is so issued.
Maximum penalty: $10 000.
Expiation fee: $500.