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Radiation Protection is a work unit within the Environmental Health Program. It aims to ensure the health and safety of people, and their environment, by protecting them from harmful effects of radiation. This protection is achieved through legislation that authorises the sale, acquisition, possession, use, storage, transport and disposal of radioactive materials and radiation apparatus. These authorities are issued under the Radiation Protection Act. If you want to know more about the general requirements that are contained in the Radiation Protection Act, please read the fact sheet on the Act under Legislation.
Authorities are issued in the form of a licence to people covering the use of medical and industrial ionising radiation sources. In general, these sources and the place of use must be registered with this work unit.
Non-ionising radiation sources are registered only in specific areas that are listed in Schedule 2 of the current edition of the National Directory for Radiation Protection. This is a book that is published by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency and is available through their web page. At the moment, the only non-ionising radiation source in Schedule 2 is a tanning unit used for cosmetic purposes within a solarium.
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Register Places and Sources OR Apply for a Use Licence, a Possess Licence or Accreditation online: |
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Authority under the Radiation Protection Act |
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- For all Paper Based Forms, plesae go to Application Forms and Codes of Practice
A certificate of accreditation is an authority that is issued to cover the installation, testing, repair, servicing and decommissioning of a radiation source. Holders of a certificate of accreditation may issue a certificate of compliance. A certificate of compliance for each radiation source at a radiation place and/or a certificate of compliance for a radiation place are required and must be attached with each application for an authority under the Radiation Protection Act. A radiation protection adviser is expected to apply for a certificate of accreditation to test a radiation source. The successful applicant may then issue a certificate of compliance for a radiation place. A certificate of compliance for a radiation source or a radiation place may be obtained through employees of the following companies that are listed here:
Regulation 10 of the Radiation Protection Regulations is the following:
"The occupier of a place where a radiation source is used or stored must ensure a copy of the current certificate of compliance for the place is on prominent display at the place. "
For a radiation place with only a single source, the certificate of compliance for a source may be displayed for the purpose of Regulation 10. Failure to display a certificate of compliance could incur an infringement notice of $130 or a penalty of $2,600 (I July 2009). The holder of a licence to use a radiation source may not use a radiation source unless there is a certificate of compliance on display at the radiation place.
Radiation Protection manages radiation-health policy through operational responsibilities on behalf of the Department of Health. It provides radiation-health advice to the public, Northern Territory agencies, Australian Government agencies and non-government organisations on radiation protection matters.
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Legislation
The Radiation Protection Act commenced 5 October 2009.
Training for Radiation Protection
A course is available at Royal Darwin Hospital, training operators that work in remote clinics to take x-ray images at remote clinics, in the Northern Territory. For more information, please contact the X-ray Department at Royal Darwin Hospital, by telephone on 8922 8512.
Currently, there are no other courses available, in the Northern Territory, for training in radiation protection. Generally, the Northern Territory will accept a nationally, recognised training course as suitable training for the purpose of Radiation Protection Regulation 9.
Nationally recognised training courses may be found at the following location:
http://www.arpansa.gov.au/Regulation/LicenceHolders/index.cfm#18
Specific training for an operator of a tanning bed is available online here:
http://www.arpansa.gov.au/RadiationProtection/Solaria/index.cfm
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Radiation Protection
2nd Floor, Casuarina Plaza
258 Trower Road
Casuarina NT
PO Box 40596
Casuarina NT 0811
Ph: (08) 8922 7152
Fax: (08) 8922 7334
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