The Radioactive Material (Road Transport) Regulations 2002

Duties with respect to the monitoring of particular persons

67.—(1) For the purposes of this regulation, the provisions of Part V of the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1999(1) (“the 1999 Regulations”) shall be applicable so that any person (including an employee of a carrier, consignor or consignee) who assists in an intervention and is liable to be subjected to emergency exposure shall be treated as being a person classified pursuant to regulation 20 of the 1999 Regulations and, accordingly, the carrier, consignor or consignee shall have the same duties with regard to the monitoring of such person as are imposed upon an “employer” in regulations 21 to 26 of the 1999 Regulations.

(2) In the exceptional circumstances of saving human lives, there may be an emergency exposure whereby the dose limit specified in paragraph 1, 2, 6, 7 and 8 (Workers over 18 and other persons) of Schedule 4 (dose limits) of the 1999 Regulations could be exceeded to such persons, but only where those persons are volunteers and have been informed of the risks involved in their intervention.

(3) “Employee” has the same meaning as in paragraph (1) of regulation 24 (radiation protection programme).

(4) “Emergency exposure” means an exposure of persons implementing the necessary rapid action to bring help to endangered persons or to prevent a large number of persons from being exposed to ionising radiation or to save valuable goods or a valuable installation, whereby the dose limit specified in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 4 (dose limits) of the 1999 Regulations could be exceeded.

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S.I. 1999/3232.