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RADIATION PROTECTION AND CONTROL REGULATIONS 2022 - REG 90

90—Employer to keep personal radiation exposure record for each worker

        (1)         An employer must immediately establish a personal radiation exposure record in respect of each worker employed by the employer to whom a personal monitoring device is issued or an approved method applied pursuant to regulation 86.

Maximum penalty: $10 000.

Expiation fee: $500.

        (2)         An employer must maintain the record and keep it up to date at all times.

Maximum penalty: $10 000.

Expiation fee: $500.

        (3)         An employer must—

            (a)         immediately after establishing a personal exposure record, inform the worker that the record has been established and is being maintained; and

            (b)         allow each worker to have access to the worker's own personal radiation exposure record.

Maximum penalty: $10 000.

Expiation fee: $500.

        (4)         An employer must not destroy or dispose of a personal radiation exposure record except in accordance with an approval given by the Minister in accordance with regulation 123.

Maximum penalty: $10 000.

Expiation fee: $500.

        (5)         A personal radiation exposure record must contain the following information:

            (a)         the full name, sex and date of birth of the worker;

            (b)         the current home address of the worker and, if no longer employed by the employer, the worker's last known home address;

            (c)         the date of commencement of employment (and if applicable the date of cessation) as a worker;

            (d)         the kind of work performed by the worker;

            (e)         details of the types of ionising radiation to which the worker may have been exposed as a result of their work, including information about radioactive material in unsealed form (if any) to which the worker may have been exposed;

            (f)         the monitoring devices worn by the worker (if any);

            (g)         the results of measuring the levels of radiation exposure of the worker in accordance with these regulations, and the conditions, if any, on the authority of the employer, indicating—

                  (i)         the measurement periods, the result for each period, and the cumulative result since the beginning of the calendar year; and

                  (ii)         the cumulative result for each calendar year; and

                  (iii)         the cumulative result for previous calendar years and the calendar year being recorded.



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