Radiation Protection Today Summer 2021 | Page 30

British Standards Institute ( BSI ) The Legislation and Standards Committee has recently appointed Jonathan Coleman-Zheng to represent SRP on the BSI Committee for Radiation Protection ( BSI Committee NCE / 2 ). Jonathan started his career at Sellafield and developed into an instrumentation specialist working variously for Siemens and Mirion Technologies ( Canberra ) SAS where he ended up on the Executive Committee of Canberra – AREVA Nuclear Measurements Business Unit as Vice President , Asia . In this role he worked in countries including Japan , China and Singapore . Other members on this BSI Committee ( which represents the UK in the development of national and international standards ) include Paul Kayente ( University of Oxford ) and Derek Bingham ( AWE ).

SRP is also represented ( by member Joe Toole ) on BSI Technical Committee EH / 3 / 8 which considers the standardisation of radioactivity measurement methods used in the field of water quality assessment . Activity in this area has been significant and a growing list of published and draft radioanalytical methods has been produced .

Legislation Quick Guide In this issue we look at

The Environmental Authorisations ( Scotland ) Regulations 2018 ( EASR )

What is the aim of EASR ? To protect human health and the environment from radioactive substances .

Who is the regulator ? The Scottish Environment Protection Agency ( SEPA )

Who needs to comply with EASR ? Anyone in Scotland carrying on an activity involving radioactive material or radioactive waste unless :

• it is a domestic activity carried on at a person ' s private dwelling

• it is an activity involving radioactive material on a nuclear site

• it is radioactive material or radioactive waste is being transported

• it is radioactive waste in the form of human excreta following medical administration at a place other than where the administration took place

• it is radioactive waste being disposed of with ordinary refuse under general binding rules

Click for more information :

SRP ' s Regulations Datasheets

• UK Government

• SEPA

Brexit Dosimetry Emergency Response Environment and Waste Medical Applications of Radiation Non-ionising Radiation Radioactivity in Food Radon Security of Radioactive Sources Work with Ionising Radiation

Don ’ t forget … From time-to-time SRP presents webinars on various topics , including those relevant to Legs and Regs . For example , Jim Thurston presented Introduction to the Ionising Radiation ( Medical Exposures ) Regulations 2017 earlier this year – available on SRP ' s YouTube channel .

See p34 for the full list of webinars .

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