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4 JTTVFE JO UIF *"&" /VDMFBS 4 FDVSJUZ 4 FSJFT FUNDAMENTALSAFETY PRINCIPLESS afety standards survey The iaea welcomes your response. Please see: PRINCIPLESSAFETY FUNDAMENTALSJOINTLY SPONSORED BY:EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY,FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATIONOF THE UNITED NATIONS, INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY,INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION, INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION, OECD NUCLEAR ENERGY AGENCY, PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION, UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATIONI N T E R NAT I O NA L ATO M I C E NE RG Y AG E N C YVIENNA, 2006 iaea SAFETY STANDARDS SERIES No.

5 SF-1 iaea Library Cataloguing in Publication DataFundamental safety principles : safety fundamentals. Vienna : Inter-national Atomic Energy Agency, ; 24 cm. ( iaea safety standards series, ISSN 1020-525X ; No. SF-1)STI/PUB/1273 ISBN 92 0 110706 41. Radiation Safety measures. 2. Emergency management. 3. Nuclear accidents Management. I. International Atomic Energy Agency. II. 00461 COPYRIGHT NOTICEAll iaea scientific and technical publications are protected by the terms of the Universal Copyright Convention as adopted in 1952 (Berne) and as revised in 1972 (Paris).

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7 O . B o x 1 0 01400 Vienna, Austriafax: +43 1 2600 29302tel.: +43 1 2600 22417email: iaea , 2006 Printed by the iaea in AustriaNovember 2006 STI/PUB/1273 FOREWORDby Mohamed ElBaradeiDirector GeneralThe iaea s Statute authorizes the Agency to establish safety standards to protect health and minimize danger to life and property standards which the iaea must use in its own operations, and which a State can apply by means of its regulatory provisions for nuclear and radiation safety. A comprehensive body of safety standards under regular review, together with the iaea s assistance in their application, has become a key element in a global safety the mid-1990s, a major overhaul of the iaea s safety standards programme was initiated, with a revised oversight committee structure and a systematic approach to updating the entire corpus of standards.

8 The new standards that have resulted are of a high calibre and reflect best practices in Member States. With the assistance of the Commission on Safety Standards, the iaea is working to promote the global acceptance and use of its safety standards are only effective, however, if they are properly applied in practice. The iaea s safety services which range in scope from engineering safety, operational safety, and radiation, transport and waste safety to regulatory matters and safety culture in organizations assist Member States in applying the standards and appraise their effectiveness.

9 These safety services enable valuable insights to be shared and I continue to urge all Member States to make use of nuclear and radiation safety is a national responsibility, and many Member States have decided to adopt the iaea s safety standards for use in their national regulations. For the Contracting Parties to the various international safety conventions, iaea standards provide a consistent, reliable means of ensuring the effective fulfilment of obligations under the conventions. The standards are also applied by designers, manufacturers and operators around the world to enhance nuclear and radiation safety in power generation, medicine, industry, agriculture, research and iaea takes seriously the enduring challenge for users and regulators everywhere: that of ensuring a high level of safety in the use of nuclear materials and radiation sources around the world.

10 Their continuing utilization for the benefit of humankind must be managed in a safe manner, and the iaea safety standards are designed to facilitate the achievement of that BY THE JOINTSPONSORING ORGANIZATIONSThe Board of Governors approved the publication of iaea safety standards in the Safety Fundamentals category on the safety of nuclear installations in June 19931, on the safety of radioactive waste management in March 19952 and on radiation protection and the safety of radiation sources in June 1995, the Board requested the iaea Secretariat to consider, at an appropriate time, the revision of the three Safety Fundamentals texts with the aim of combining them in a unified set of principles representing a common safety philosophy across all areas of application of the iaea safety distinction traditionally made between nuclear safety and radiation protection is hardly justifiable at the conceptual level.