New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

RADIATION CONTROL REGULATION 2003 - REG 18

18 Personal radiation exposure record

(1) An employer must ensure that, for each occupationally exposed person to whom a personal monitoring device is issued, a record is kept, in accordance with this clause and on an appropriate periodic basis:

(a) of the amount of radiation to which the person has been exposed, as measured by the device, and

(b) of the results of any tests carried out or caused to be carried out by the employer in relation to the person for the purpose of determining the amount of radiation to which the person has been exposed.

Maximum penalty: 25 penalty units.

(2) Such a record must contain the following particulars:

(a) the full name, sex and date of birth of the occupationally exposed person,

(b) the current home address of the occupationally exposed person or, if the person is no longer employed by the employer, the person’s last known home address,

(c) the date of commencement of employment (and, if applicable, the date of cessation of employment) as an occupationally exposed person,

(d) the kind of work performed by the occupationally exposed person,

(e) details of the types of ionising radiation to which the occupationally exposed person may have been exposed in the course of employment with the employer, including information about radioactive substances in unsealed form (if any) to which the occupationally exposed person may have been exposed,

(f) details of any radiation accidents in which the person has been involved or by which the person may have been affected,

(g) details of the personal monitoring device worn by the occupationally exposed person,

(h) the results of monitoring the levels of radiation exposure of the occupationally exposed person.

(3) When an employee leaves an employer’s employment, the employer:

(a) must cause a copy of the radiation exposure records relating to the employee to be given to the employee, and

(b) if the employee is taking up employment as an occupationally exposed person with another employer and if the employee requests, must cause a further copy of those records to be given to the other employer.

Maximum penalty: 25 penalty units.

(4) An employer must ensure that a warning in the following terms accompanies a copy of the radiation exposure records given to an employee by the employer in accordance with subclause (3):

THESE RECORDS SHOULD BE KEPT SAFELY AND PERMANENTLY AND BE GIVEN TO ANY FUTURE EMPLOYER EMPLOYING YOU AS A RADIATION WORKER.

Maximum penalty: 25 penalty units.

(5) An employer by whom records are required to be kept must ensure that the records are available for inspection by the person to whom they relate at reasonable times during normal working hours.

Maximum penalty: 25 penalty units.