Posts Tagged ‘ALARP’
Radon Awareness Week: Protecting Homes and Workplaces from an Invisible Risk
L2 Business Consulting Limited, a HSE recognised Radiation Protection Body (RPA), are using Radon Awareness Week 2025 to highlight an important issue – Radon Gas in our homes and workplaces. Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that seeps from the ground, particularly in areas with certain underlying geology. Radon-222 Gas decays to produce a…
Read MoreRadiation Protection Requirements for Source Exchange in Industrial Radiography
Source Exchange is undertaken to temporarily remove and return a Source Assembly from a Gamma Source Projector to allow examination, maintenance and test to be undertaken on the projector or to allow a redundant Source Assembly (spent) to be removed and replaced with a new Source Assembly. Ideally Source Exchange should be undertaken off-site in…
Read MoreThe New IRR17 Consent Process
The Ionising Radiation Regulations 2017 (IRR17) brought into effect a new Graded Approach for how regulators (HSE, ONR and HSENI, we focus on HSE in this article) would authorise work with ionising radiation – the higher the radiation protection risk, the greater the requirements. A three-tier system of regulatory control, Notification, Registration and Consent was…
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