ARPANSA - Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency

24 August 2007

INVITATION TO MAKE SUBMISSIONS

ARPANSA Radiation Protection Series
Draft Code of Practice in the Medical Applications of Ionizing Radiation

ARPANSA’s Radiation Health Committee, the national body charged with recommending regulatory requirements for applications of ionizing radiation, has prepared a draft Code of Practice in the Medical Applications of Ionizing Radiation.

The Code of Practice, when adopted into the National Directory for Radiation Protection, will be applied in each Australian jurisdiction by the relevant radiation safety regulatory bodies to diagnostic and interventional radiology, nuclear medicine and radiotherapy.

The draft Code deals with radiation protection of the public and occupationally exposed persons arising from medical applications and with radiation protection of patients. The draft Code is intended to be supplemented by Safety Guides describing good practice in each of the relevant medical modalities.

The following documents provide essential information to assist the submission process:

• Invitation to comment (29k PDF)
• Explanatory Paper - Regulatory Requirements and Good Practice (31k PDF)
• Public Consultation Draft Code of Practice in the Medical Application of Ionizing Radiation (126k PDF)
• Draft Safety Guide for diagnostic and interventional radiology (480k PDF)
• Draft Safety Guide for nuclear medicine (726k PDF)
• Draft Safety Guide for radiotherapy (511k PDF)
• Table of comments (376k PDF) arising from the industry consultation period held in June 2007 and the working group responses to that comment
• Draft Regulatory Impact Statement (153k PDF)

Requests for hardcopies can be made by email to secretariat@arpansa.gov.au or by telephoning (03) 9433 2339.

Submissions should be forwarded by 26 October 2007 and addressed to:

Mr Alan Melbourne
Manager, Standards Development and Committee Support Section
ARPANSA
619 Lower Plenty Road
Yallambie VIC 3085
Or by email to: secretariat@arpansa.gov.au
(Electronic submissions are preferred)

All submissions will be held in a register of submissions, and unless marked confidential, may be made public.

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