The Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment Regulations 2007

Duties of consignor and carrier with regard to the preparation of emergency arrangements

4.—(1) Before the carriage of a package begins, the consignor of that package shall ensure that there is a plan in writing which sets out the emergency arrangements for that package.

(2) The plan shall set out such emergency arrangements as are appropriate for the carriage of the package.

(3) The plan shall be prepared having regard to—

(a) the principle that intervention is to be undertaken only if the damage due to the radiation resulting from the radiation emergency is sufficient to justify the potential harm and the potential cost (including the social cost) of that intervention;

(b) the principle that the form, scale and duration of the intervention should ensure that the benefit to health will be greater than any harm that might be associated with the intervention itself;

(c) the dose limits provided for in Schedule 4 of the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1999; and

(d)

(i) if the Health Protection Agency has specified levels of radiation dose applicable in an emergency pursuant to its functions under section 3 of the Health Protection Agency Act 2004(1), those levels; or

(ii) otherwise, the Emergency Reference Levels specified by the former National Radiological Protection Board pursuant to a direction under section 1(7) of the Radiological Protection Act 1970(2).

(4) To the extent that the plan is used in relation to carriage on more than one occasion, the consignor shall review and, whenever necessary, revise his emergency arrangements and shall ensure that at suitable intervals they are tested.

(1)

2004 c. 17.

(2)

1970 c. 46. By section 3(2) of the Health Protection Agency Act 2004 and article 2(1)(c) of the Health Protection Agency Act 2004 (Commencement) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/121), those functions of the National Radiological Protection Board that were exercisable on direction on 31st January 2005 became exercisable by the Health Protection Agency on that date. By Schedule 3 to the 2004 Act and article 2(2) of the Order, the 1970 Act under which the Board was established, ceased to have effect on 1st April 2005.