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Radiation Protection Convention, 1960 is an International Labour Organization Convention to restrict workers from exposure to ionising radiation and to prohibit persons under 16 engaging in work that causes such exposure. (Article 6) It was established in 1960, with the preamble stating:
In nuclear power plants, CPAMs are used for measuring releases of APR from the facility, monitoring levels of APR for protection of plant personnel, monitoring the air in the reactor containment structure to detect leakage from the reactor systems, and to control ventilation fans, when the APR level has exceeded a defined threshold in the ...
Radiation monitoring; Radiation Protection Convention, 1960; Radiation protection reports of the European Union; Radiobiology; Radiological protection of patients; Radioresistance; Society for Radiological Protection – The principal UK body concerned with promoting the science and practice of radiation protection. It is the UK national ...
Also, Protocol of 1982 to the Plantations Convention, 1958, P110. 12 Specific: Radiation Protection Convention: 1960 C115: 50 1. Safety: Equality of Treatment (Social Security) Convention: 1962 C118: 38 3. Equality: Hygiene (Commerce and Offices) Convention: 1964 C120: 51 1. Safety: Employment Injury Benefits Convention: 1964 C121: 24 1. Social ...
Unprotected experiments in the U.S. in 1896 with an early X-ray tube (Crookes tube), when the dangers of radiation were largely unknown.[1]The history of radiation protection begins at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries with the realization that ionizing radiation from natural and artificial sources can have harmful effects on living organisms.
The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) is an independent, international, non-governmental organization, with the mission to protect people, animals, and the environment from the harmful effects of ionising radiation
The level of health risk is dependent on duration and the type and strength of irradiation. Penetrating radiation such as gamma rays, X-rays, neutrons or beta particles pose the greatest risk from an external source. Low penetrating radiation such as alpha particles have a low external risk due to the shielding effect of the top layers of skin.
Radiation dosimetry in the fields of health physics and radiation protection is the measurement, calculation and assessment of the ionizing radiation dose absorbed by an object, usually the human body. This applies both internally, due to ingested or inhaled radioactive substances, or externally due to irradiation by sources of radiation.