The aim of the inspection is to ensure that legal and natural person applies all necessary measures to protect people and the environment from the harmful effects of ionizing radiation.

Tasks of inspections are:

• to organize and perform the inspections of legal or natural person, enterprises, conducting activities with sources of ionizing radiation, and to estimate how they follow the requirements laid down in the legal documents on radiation protection;
• to apply sanctions to legal and natural persons who have committed breaches;
• to carry out other measures to ensure adequate implementation of the radiation protection and physical safety requirements.

Inspections could be planned and unplanned.
• planned inspections are performed according the State radiation protections supervision annual plan and the Regulation of State Radiation Protection Supervision;
• unplanned inspections could be performed by the order of the director, deputy director or heads of divisions of radiation protection supervision and control of Radiation Protection Centre.

Inspections are divided into target and complex inspections:
• target inspections are carried out to evaluate separate activities with the ionizing radiation sources (x-ray diagnostics, nuclear medicine, industry radiography etc.), elimination of previous inspections breaches or activities which do not require RPC licence although it is possible to detect orphan sources;
• complex inspections are carried out to evaluate all activities with sources of ionizing radiation of legal or natural persons.

During the period of 2007–2011 inspectors of RPC exercised the State radiation protection supervision.

Target inspections are carried out annually to implement the annual RSC work plan aiming to assess how radiation protection requirements are implemented in a specific area (ensuring physical security of sources, occupational exposure, etc.).

BREACHES

Despite all the measures applied to ensure implementation of radiation protection requirements, the number of objects where breaches were found is not decreasing. The most common ones are the following:

• untimely reported on the changes of licensing conditions;
• dose rate measurements at working places and quality control measurements of the individual protection measures are not performed;
• inventory data of ionizing radiation sources is not provided to the State Register of Sources of Ionizing Radiation and Occupational Exposure.

Most of the breaches were eliminated during the inspection or within a specified period of time and did not cause a threat to others.

Last update: 23th April 2012