Vietnam: Contents of radiation safety documents in occupational exposure

Specifically, according to Article 17 of Circular No. 19/2012/TT-BKHCN of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam, the organizations and individuals doing radiations works must make, update, and deposit the documents prescribed in Clause 1 Article 29 of the Law on Atomic Energy of Vietnam, including:

- The documents about the radioactive sources, nuclear materials, radiation devices, nuclear devices; the changes, repairs, and upgrades of radiation and nuclear devices;

- The documents about radiation inspection at the workplace, the measurement, maintenance, and testing, specifying the radiation inspection plan, the radiation inspection works, the results of periodic radiation inspection, the documents about the maintenance, testing, and calibration of radiation inspecting devices, and other relevant documents.

- The logbook and documents about nuclear and radiation accidents while doing radiations works;

- The training documents of radiological workers;

- The health documents of radiological workers, specifying the results of annual and irregular health-checks of each worker;

- The form of documents about radiation dose of radiological workers is provided in Annex III of this Circular. The documents about radiation dose of radiological workers must be updated once a year and after the radiation dose exceeds the investigated level, the dose limits, and on demand;

- The conclusion of the inspection and the documents about the implementation of the request from competent agencies;

- The public radiation inspection documents include: the observation program and the result of environmental radiation observation, the result of observation device calibration.

Moreover, organizations and individuals that do radiation works must provide the radiological workers and other relevant subjects with the documents about occupational exposure; deposit and send the documents about the control of occupational exposure as prescribed in Article 29 of the Law on Atomic Energy of Vietnam. The documents about the health and radiation doses of radiological workers must be kept for 30 years as long as they stop doing radiological works. Radiological workers must preserve and keep the personal radiation dose logbooks. Provide the organizations and individuals that do radiological works with the previous information about their occupational exposure.

View more details at the Circular No. 19/2012/TT-BKHCN of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam, effective from December 23, 2012.

Le Vy

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