CATEGORIES IN THE IAEA SAFETY SERIES

1 CATEGORIES IN THE iaea SAFETY SERIESA hierarchical categorization scheme has been introduced, according to whichthe publications in the iaea SAFETY SERIES are grouped as follows: SAFETY Fundamentals (silver cover)Basic objectives, concepts and principles to ensure Standards (red cover)Basic requirements which must be satisfied to ensure SAFETY for particularactivities or application Guides (green cover)Recommendations, on the basis of international experience, relating to thefulfilment of basic Practices (blue cover)Practical examples and detailed methods which can be used for the applicationof SAFETY Standards or SAFETY Fundamentals and SAFETY Standards are issued with the approval of theIAEA Board of Governors.

2 SAFETY Guides and SAFETY Practices are issued under theauthority of the Director General of the are other iaea publications which also contain information important tosafety, in particular in the Proceedings SERIES (papers presented at symposia andconferences), the Technical Reports SERIES (emphasis on technological aspects) andthe iaea -TECDOC SERIES (information usually in preliminary form).CORRIGENDAtoInternational Basic SAFETY Standards for Protection against Ionizing Radiationand for the SAFETY of Radiation SourcesSafety SERIES No. 115p. 48In para. II. 14(b) replace "focal spot position" with "focal spot size",p.

3 88In footnote a to Table I-I add the following two parent nuclides and progeny (first and sixth):Sr-80 Rb-80Ag-108m Ag-108p. 91In para. H-2 replace "para. 205" with "para. ".p. 92In footnote 40 replace "para. 418" with "para. 1-18".p. 277In footnote d to Table II-IX replace "time" with "half-time".p. 285In Table IV-II replace "Gy-a"1" with "Sv-a"1".p. 289In para. V-l 1 replace "V-ll-V-16" with " ".p. 299In the definition of Committed effective dose after "integration time t" insert "and WT is thetissue weighting factor for tissue T".p.

4 304In the definition of Health professional replace "paediatry" with "podiatry".p. 307In the definition of Multiple scan average dose replace the limits of integration with "+nI/2"and "-nI/2".p. 319In the Index spaces not preceded by commas should be inclusive intervals; , " "should be " ".p. 319In the entry for authorized person delete " ,".p. 321 Replace the entry for embryo with "embryo/foetus , , II. 16, II. 18, Table IV-I".p. 322 Replace "foetus (see embryo)" with "foetus (see embryo/foetus)".p. 324 Replace "programme (see protection and SAFETY programme)" with "programme (see pro-tection and SAFETY )".

5 INTERNATIONALBASIC SAFETY STANDARDSFOR PROTECTION AGAINSTIONIZING RADIATIONAND FOR THE SAFETY OFRADIATION SOURCESSAFETY SERIES No. 115 INTERNATIONALBASIC SAFETY STANDARDSFOR PROTECTION AGAINSTIONIZING RADIATIONAND FOR THE SAFETY OFRADIATION SOURCESJ ointly sponsored by:Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsInternational Atomic Energy AgencyInternational Labour OrganisationNuclear Energy Agency of theOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentPan American Health OrganizationWorld Health OrganizationINTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCYVIENNA, 1996 Permission to reproduce or translate the information contained in this publica-tion may be obtained by writing to the International Atomic Energy Agency,Wagramerstrasse 5, Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria.

6 iaea , 1996 VIC Library Cataloguing in Publication DataInternational basic SAFETY standards for protection against ionizing radiation andfor the SAFETY of radiation sources. Vienna : International AtomicEnergy Agency, ; 24 cm. ( SAFETY SERIES , ISSN 0074-1892 ; 115. Safetystandards)STI/PUB/996 ISBN 92-0-104295-7 Includes bibliographical Radiation SAFETY measures Standards. I. International AtomicEnergy Agency. II. SERIES . III. SERIES : SAFETY SERIES . SAFETY 95-02815 Printed by the iaea in AustriaFebruary 1996 STI/PUB/996 FOREWORDT hese International Basic SAFETY Standards for Protection against IonizingRadiation and for the SAFETY of Radiation Sources mark the culmination of effortsthat have continued over the past several decades towards the harmonization of radia-tion protection and SAFETY standards internationally.

7 The Standards are jointly spon-sored by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), theInternational Atomic Energy Agency ( iaea ), the International Labour Organisation(ILO), the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Co-operationand Development (OECD/NEA), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)and the World Health Organization (WHO) (the Sponsoring Organizations).The unprecedented international effort to draft and review the Standardsinvolved hundreds of experts from the Member States of the Sponsoring Organiza-tions and from specialized organizations.

8 The meeting of the Technical Committeethat endorsed the Standards in December 1993 was attended by 127 experts from52 countries and 11 organizations. A further Technical Committee verified thetechnical editing and the translations between English and Arabic, Chinese, French,Russian and iaea 's Board of Governors approved the Standards at its 847th Meetingon 12 September 1994. For PAHO, the XXIV Pan American Sanitary Conferenceendorsed the Standards on 28 September 1994 following a recommendation from the113th Meeting of the PAHO Executive Committee on 28 June 1994.

9 The DirectorGeneral of the FAO confirmed the FAO's technical endorsement of the Standardson 14 November 1994. WHO completed its adoption process for the Standards on27 January 1995 when the Director-General's report on the subject was noted by theExecutive Board at its 95th session. The ILO's Governing Body approvedpublication of the Standards at its meeting on 17 November 1994. The OECD/NEAS teering Committee approved the Standards at its meeting on 2 May 1995. Thiscompleted the authorization process for joint publication by all the iaea is herewith issuing the Standards in their final edition, which super-sedes the Interim Edition ( SAFETY SERIES No.)

10 115-1) issued in December 1994. TheStandards are issued in the iaea SAFETY SERIES as a final publication in Arabic,Chinese, English, French, Russian and NOTEThe Principal Requirements of these Standards, which are presented in the main bodyof the text, generally use the form 'shall' in making statements about requirements, duties andobligations. The Detailed Requirements, which are presented in the Appendices, also use'shall' in statements consequential to the Principal Requirements, with the implication thatthese requirements apply unless other more desirable options for protection and SAFETY havebeen established.